echar los perros

Spanish

Verb

echar los perros (first-person singular present echo los perros, first-person singular preterite eché los perros, past participle echado los perros)

1. (idiomatic) to come down on

Further reading

• “echar, o soltar los perros a alguien”, 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
• “echar”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010