nadar y guardar la ropa

Spanish

Verb

nadar y guardar la ropa (first-person singular present nado y guardar la ropa, first-person singular preterite nadé y guardar la ropa, past participle nadado y guardar la ropa)

1. (idiomatic) have one's cake and eat it

Further reading

• “nadar y guardar la ropa”, 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