encaje de bolillos

Spanish

Noun

encaje de bolillos m (uncountable)

1. bobbin lace
2. (idiomatic) tough going; hard work

Further reading

• “encaje de bolillos”, 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