Ponerse las pilas
Meaning: To get your act together and start working hard.
Language: Spanish
Literally: To put your batteries in
Category: Daily Life
Origin: A modern image from battery-powered devices: insert the batteries and finally spring into action.
More idioms — Daily Life
- Бить баклуши (Bit' baklushi) — To loaf about doing nothing.
- Pisar na bola — To mess up or let someone down.
- 바가지를 쓰다 (bagajireul sseuda) — To be overcharged; to get ripped off.
- 비행기를 태우다 (bihaenggireul taeuda) — To flatter someone over the top.
- Pabucu dama atılmak — To fall out of favor and be cast aside.
- Être dans de beaux draps — To be in a real mess.
More Spanish idioms
- Estar en el ajo — To be in on a secret or scheme.
- Ser la oveja negra — To be the outcast of the family or group.
- Echar leña al fuego — To make a bad situation worse.
- Tener más cara que espalda — To be utterly shameless and brazen.
- Tener mala uva — To have a nasty temper or ill intentions.
- Ponerse como una sopa — To get soaked to the bone.