quitar el hojaldre al pastel
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Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]quitar el hojaldre al pastel (first-person singular present quito el hojaldre al pastel, first-person singular preterite quité el hojaldre al pastel, past participle quitado el hojaldre al pastel)
- (idiomatic) To peel the onion, to peel back the mask.
Further reading
[edit]- “quitar el hojaldre al pastel”, 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