remachar el clavo
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]remachar el clavo (first-person singular present remacho el clavo, first-person singular preterite remaché el clavo, past participle remachado el clavo)
- (idiomatic) to make matters worse; to rub it in
Further reading
[edit]- “remachar el clavo”, 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