dar el pego
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]dar el pego (first-person singular present doy el pego, first-person singular preterite di el pego, past participle dado el pego)
- (idiomatic) to fool
- 2020 September 22, “El diccionario del caos”, in El País[1]:
- El Rolex falso comprado a un mercader chino en el Soho neoyorquino después de un viaje low cost y el traje de chaqueta acrílico de Zara adquirido en rebajas podían haber dado el pego un rato, pero aquella pregunta era capaz de desarmar la parafernalia simbólica del sujeto interrogado en cuestión de segundos: “¿Tú a qué colegio fuiste?”
- The fake Rolex bought from a Chinese seller in New York's SoHo on a low-budget trip and the acrylic jacket on sale from Zara's might have fooled them for a while, but that question was able to undo the symbolical belongings of the interrogated subject in a matter of seconds: “Which school did you attend?”
Further reading
[edit]- “dar, o tirar, el pego”, 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