no levantar cabeza

Spanish

Verb

no levantar cabeza

1. (idiomatic) to put one's head down (to study, read, or write)
2. (idiomatic) to suffer many relapses after an illness
3. (idiomatic) to be eternally poor

Related terms

• levantar cabeza

 

Further reading

• “no levantar cabeza”, 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