tener la mosca detrás de la oreja
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “have the fly behind one's ear”.
Verb
[edit]tener la mosca detrás de la oreja (first-person singular present tengo la mosca detrás de la oreja, first-person singular preterite tuve la mosca detrás de la oreja, past participle tenido la mosca detrás de la oreja)
- (idiomatic) to smell a rat
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tener la mosca en, o detrás de, la oreja”, 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