echar la capa al toro

Spanish

Verb

echar la capa al toro (first-person singular present echo la capa al toro, first-person singular preterite eché la capa al toro, past participle echado la capa al toro)

1. (idiomatic) to give someone a hand

Further reading

• “echar la capa al toro”, 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