hecho un basilisco
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]hecho un basilisco (feminine hecha un basilisco, masculine plural hechos un basilisco, feminine plural hechas un basilisco)
- (idiomatic) ballistic, raging mad
- 1899, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Los zapatos viejos:
- Pronunciada la sentencia, la bohemia desapareció, no sin que Nolasco se levantase hecho un basilisco, resuelto a darle una mano de puñadas y coces.
- After the sentence was handed down, the bohemian vanished, not without Nolasco shooting up in rage, ready to rain blows on her.
Further reading
[edit]- “hecho, cha un basilisco”, 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