Favor is a help or Help that someone is granted or asked for. For example: "Can you do me the favor of going to buy milk at the market?", “I need someone to do me the favor of lending me ten pesos: I'll give them back tomorrow”, “Juan did Ophelia a favor and never misses the opportunity to remind her”.
A favor, on the other hand, is a benefit , a Grace or one honor : “The company gave me two months of favor until I can regularize the situation”, "With the favor of those present, we will begin the ceremony".
The concept of favor allows to pronounce diverse expressions. "Do me the favor" or "Do me the favor" Can be used to place an order ("Do me the favor of reaching for those papers, if you are so kind", “Do me (do me) the favor, wait for me five minutes while I change”) or to demand something ("Do me please shut up", "Don't say dumb, do me the favor").
It is interesting to emphasize the fact that in the past the term favor was also used with a significant other. Specifically, long ago that was used to refer to the flower or ribbon with which the ladies entertained the gentlemen as a sign of love or admiration, among other feelings. Then these men were responsible for, at public parties, wear those in the lapels of their suits, in their hats or on the arm.
The expression "Please" It also has two uses: to make a request ("Pass me the salt please", "Can you spell your last name, please?") or to externalize a protest (“One hundred pesos for those pants? Please!", “I never saw something so nasty. Please, they're all crazy. ”).
Nor can we ignore the existence of the expression “in favor of”. With it, what is clear is that a person agrees and supports another individual, group or institution. In this sense, a clear example of the use of this prepositional phrase would be: "Manuel is in favor of that politician who defends equality among all citizens at all costs."
In the same way, we also have to make reference to the interjective phrase “favor to the king” that in the past was used to make clear the action by which the justice ministers of the moment asked for help and relief with the clear objective of being able to achieve stop a certain criminal.
To all this we should add the fact that there is an expression that is used in gambling and that is also based on the term we are now analyzing. We are referring to "favor suit", which is used in what are card games to determine which suit (gold, cups, clubs ...) is the one that can double the score in the case of winning.
"Do him a favor" Finally, someone is an expression of the colloquial language that refers to grant occasional sex . It is a somewhat vulgar phrase that denigrates the person to whom the relationship is granted: "Do Marta a favor and see if her mood changes", "Mario insisted so much that last night I did him the favor".
