Spanish Idioms

Question 1

Aguantar carros y carretas

Answer 1

To be able to tolerate a lot of negative acts or nonsense from ☺️

Question 2

Alborotar el gallinero

Answer 2

To get everyone in an uproar

Question 3

Aliviarse

Answer 3

To give birth

Question 4

Correct or incorrect:

Ando cocinando unos huevos

Answer 4

Incorrect

Estoy cocinando unos huevos.

Andar is often incorrectly used in the present progressive. Should be estar

Question 5

Andar amolado

Answer 5

To be in a bad way as concerns money or health

Question 6

Andar con Jesús en la boca

Answer 6

To be distraught

Question 7

Andar de boca en boca

Answer 7

To be the talk of the town

Question 8

Andar de la ceca a la meca

Andar del tingo al tango

Answer 8

To go to a lot of places

Question 9

Andar de malas

Answer 9

To have a run of bad luck

Question 10

Andar (estar) en las nubes

Answer 10

To be in the clouds

Question 11

Andar giro(a) o girito(a)

Answer 11

To still be going strong

Question 12

Andar norteado(a)

Answer 12

To be disoriented or lost

Question 13

Armarse la gorda

Answer 13

To start a fight

Question 14

Barajarla más despacio

Answer 14

To explain more slowly

Question 15

Brillar por su ausencia

Answer 15

To be conspicuously absent

Question 16

Buscarle ruido al chicharrón

Buscarle tres pies al gato

Answer 16

To look for trouble
To ask for it
To burn the candle at both ends

Question 17

Caer al pelo

Answer 17

To be just the thing that one wants or needs

Question 18

Caer bien o mal

Answer 18

To like or to not like ?

Question 19

Translate “las cebollas me caen mal”

Answer 19

Onions don’t agree with me

Question 20

Translate “el consomé le cae bien a uno cuando está enfermo”

Answer 20

Broth goes down well when one is sick.

Question 21

Caer como cubeta de agua fría

Answer 21

To astonish or stun

Question 22

Calentarle la cabeza a

Answer 22

To prejudice against

Question 23

Cargar con el muerto

Answer 23

To be blamed for

Question 24

Chuparse el dedo

Answer 24

To be born yesterday

Question 25

Comer ansias

Answer 25

To be anxious or fidgety

Question 26

Comérselo con los ojos a

Answer 26

To stare longingly at

Question 27

Correr como reguero de pólvora

Answer 27

To spread like wildfire or travel like lightning

Question 28

Correr por cuenta de

Answer 28

To be on (the next round is on me)

To see to it that (de mi cuenta corre que no lograrán embargarte)

Question 29

Costar mucho trabajo o

Dar trabajo

Answer 29

To be very difficult

Question 30

Creerse la divina garza

Answer 30

To be conceited

Question 31

Creerse la gran cosa

Answer 31

To be conceited

Question 32

Dar a luz

Answer 32

To give birth

Question 33

Darle al clavo

Answer 33

To hit the nail on the head

Question 34

Darle ánimo(s) a

Answer 34

To give moral support or courage

To encourage

Question 35

Transparente: “No me des ánimos”

Answer 35

Sarcastic way of saying “I appreciate your support “

Question 36

Darle atole con el dedo a ☺️

Answer 36

To take advantage of one’s innocence

Question 37

Dar bateria

Answer 37

To give a good fight

Also has a sexual connotation

Question 38

Darle coba a

Answer 38

To butter up

Question 39

Dar color

Answer 39

To pay for

Question 40

Abrirse de capa

Answer 40

To speak frankly and sincerely