templar gaitas

Spanish

Verb

templar gaitas (first-person singular present templo gaitas, first-person singular preterite templé gaitas, past participle templado gaitas)

1. (idiomatic) to pour oil on troubled waters

Further reading

• “templar gaitas”, 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