tirar la casa por la ventana
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “to throw the house out of the window”. It means throwing the furniture out the window, because you do not want it because you're going to buy new furniture.
Verb
[edit]tirar la casa por la ventana (first-person singular present tiro la casa por la ventana, first-person singular preterite tiré la casa por la ventana, past participle tirado la casa por la ventana)
- (idiomatic) to push the boat out
- Synonym: echar la casa por la ventana
Further reading
[edit]- “tirar la casa por la ventana”, 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