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I have heard the following line in the Narcos TV series:

Voy a necesitar un conductor sin antecedentes que me mueva por la ciudad. Un man inteligente, que no le coma a nada, que sea un berraco.

Context: Pablo Escobar is ordering his men to find a car driver to drive him around Medellin and says the sentence above.

What does "comerse a nada" mean here? I have searched in https://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=comer , https://dle.rae.es/comer and http://lema.rae.es/damer/?key=comer , but I have not found the intended meaning of "comerse" in this sentence.

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In this case, Comer is a synonym of Temer (at least in the Colombian dialect), so que no le coma a nada is que no le tema a nada. Unfortunately, there is not much documentation about this term. (The best you can do is find "no le come a nadie" with the quotations marks in google, and there is some examples when you can replace comer by temer and is the same.)

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