andar a tres menos cuartillo
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Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]andar a tres menos cuartillo (first-person singular present ando a tres menos cuartillo, first-person singular preterite anduve a tres menos cuartillo, past participle andado a tres menos cuartillo)
- (idiomatic) to be skint; to be down on one's uppers
Further reading
[edit]- “andar a tres menos cuartillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10