echar la llave

Spanish

Verb

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

1. (idiomatic) to lock up

Further reading

• “echar la llave”, 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