No dar pie con bola
Meaning: To get everything wrong; to do nothing right.
Language: Spanish
Literally: To not give foot to ball
Category: Daily Life
Origin: From ball games, missing the ball with every kick pictures a spell of total ineptitude.
More idioms — Daily Life
- Capire fischi per fiaschi — To misunderstand completely.
- Avere un chiodo fisso — To be obsessed with one idea.
- Tirar o pai da forca — Said of something done in frantic urgency.
- Гол как сокол — Dirt poor; without a thing to your name.
- 石橋を叩いて渡る — To be extremely, even excessively, cautious.
- 釘を刺す — To remind someone firmly so they can't back out.
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