gastárselas
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]gastárselas (first-person singular present me las gasto, first-person singular preterite me las gasté, past participle las gastado)
- (idiomatic) to be like; to behave; to be up to (generally with negative connotations)
- Synonym: gastarlas
- gastárselas de bohemio
- pass oneself off as a bohemian
- 2012, Guillermo Aguilar Álvarez, Más allá del arco iris:
- debe estar siempre alerta porque ya se dio cuenta cómo se las gasta el General
- He had to always stay alert because he knew what the General was like.
Further reading
[edit]- “gastarlas, o gastárselas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
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