no sé qué y no sé cuánto
Meaning: An undefined or vague something; an indescribable quality or collection of things.
Language: Spanish
Literally: I don't know what and I don't know how much
Category: The Absurd
Origin: The phrase uses deliberate nonsense words to capture what cannot be precisely named—a rhetorical shrug expressing the speaker's inability or unwillingness to specify.
More idioms — The Absurd
- caer en gracia — To charm someone instantly or be liked right away.
- 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.
- nur Bahnhof verstehen — to understand nothing at all of what is being said.
- alles im grünen Bereich sein — Everything is functioning well or is satisfactory.
- um die Ecke denken — To think creatively or unconventionally, to solve problems by approaching them from unexp…
More Spanish idioms
- con pies de plomo — To proceed with extreme caution or wariness; to tread carefully in a delicate situation.
- cuéntame una de vaqueros — A challenge to someone to stop lying or exaggerating; an equivalent of "pull the other on…
- tomar el toro por los cuernos — To face a difficult problem directly and courageously rather than avoiding it.
- cortar por lo sano — To sever a problem decisively rather than manage it halfway, making a clean break or radi…
- de tres al cuarto — Worthless, shoddy, or of poor quality.
- venir mal dadas — For things to go wrong or turn out badly.
From our compliments & insults
- Eres más lento que el caballo del malo — You're painfully slow — the villain's horse never catches the hero.
- Eres un crack — You're brilliant — a total star at what you do.
- Eres muy majo/a — You're a lovely, kind, and genuine person — the nicest way to compliment someone's charac…