lío de faldas
Meaning: A romantic or sexual entanglement with a woman; an affair.
Language: Spanish
Literally: a tangle of skirts
Category: Daily Life
Origin: The image evokes tangled clothing as a metaphor for romantic complication. Skirts stand in for women, and the 'tangle' suggests confusion and enmeshment.
More idioms — Daily Life
- sacar el ascua con mano ajena — To get someone else to do one's dirty work or take the blame for one's own wrongdoing.
- contante y sonante — Money in ready cash; actual payment rather than promises or credit.
- de Pascuas a Ramos — Once in a blue moon; extremely rarely or at great intervals.
- Dampf ablassen — To release pent-up emotion or frustration.
- aus dem Off — to speak or act without drawing attention to oneself, anonymously or from the background.
- etwas auf die lange Bank schieben — to postpone or delay something indefinitely.
More Spanish idioms
- estar entre dos aguas — To be undecided or unable to choose between two options; to sit on the fence.
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- lobo con piel de cordero — A person who appears harmless or trustworthy but is actually dangerous or deceitful.
- dar coces contra el aguijón — To resist or rebel futilely against something stronger or inevitable.
- no ganar para sustos — To be plagued by constant troubles and misfortunes; to suffer setback after setback.
- perder la chaveta — To go crazy; to lose one's grip on sanity or self-control.
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