escurrir la bola

Spanish

Verb

escurrir la bola (first-person singular present escurro la bola, first-person singular preterite escurrí la bola, past participle escurrido la bola)

1. (idiomatic, figurative) to dodge the bullet

Further reading

• “escurrir la bola”, 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