darse de calabazadas

Spanish

Verb

darse de calabazadas (first-person singular present me doy de calabazadas, first-person singular preterite me di de calabazadas, past participle dado de calabazadas)

1. (idiomatic, figurative) To bang one's head against a brick wall; to go nowhere fast

Further reading

• “darse de calabazadas”, 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