pasarse de listo

Spanish

Verb

pasarse de listo (first-person singular present me paso de listo, first-person singular preterite me pasé de listo, past participle pasado de listo)

1. (idiomatic) to get in out of one's depth; to bite off more than one can chew

Further reading

• “pasarse de listo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28