bajar la guardia
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]bajar la guardia (first-person singular present bajo la guardia, first-person singular preterite bajé la guardia, past participle bajado la guardia)
- (idiomatic) to lower one's guard, to let down one's guard, to drop one's guard
Usage notes
[edit]- Even when talking about a specific person, you still use the definite article and not a personal pronoun, similar to how one refers to body parts in Spanish (e.g. "lavar las manos").
Further reading
[edit]- “bajar la guardia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28