vérsele el plumero
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “[for] his/her feathers to be visible”.
Verb
[edit]vérsele el plumero (first-person singular present me le veo el plumero, first-person singular preterite me le vi el plumero, past participle le visto el plumero)
- (idiomatic) to be blindingly obvious
- No habían pasado ni dos horas y al concurso ya se le veía el plumero.
- Not even two hours had gone by and in the competition it was already blindingly obvious.
Further reading
[edit]- “vérsele a alguien el plumero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014