hundirse el mundo
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]hundirse el mundo (first-person singular present me hundo el mundo, first-person singular preterite me hundí el mundo, past participle hundido el mundo)
- (idiomatic, figurative) to be the end of the world
- 2022, Laura Anguera, Nadie me habló de ti:
- no se hunde el mundo si no respondo de inmediato, pero lo cierto es que, si me quedo sin batería o me olvido el móvil, pienso que algo horrible le está sucediendo a mi padre […]
- it's not the end of the world if I don't immediately reply, but the thing is, if I run out of battery or I forget my cellphone, I think something horrible is happening to my father […]
Further reading
[edit]- “hundirse el mundo”, 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