por la cara
Meaning: Boldly and undeservedly; without earning it or paying for it; purely out of audacity or shamelessness.
Language: Spanish
Literally: for the face
Category: Body & Senses
Origin: The image is of someone presenting their face — acting as if they deserve something by mere presumption or cheek, rather than by right or payment.
More idioms — Body & Senses
- mal trago — a difficult or unpleasant experience; a bitter pill to swallow.
- en dos patadas — very easily or effortlessly.
- con pies de plomo — To proceed with extreme caution or wariness; to tread carefully in a delicate situation.
- con lo puesto — With nothing but the clothes on one's back; in a state of complete destitution.
- die Nase voll haben — To be fed up or exhausted by something.
- Salz in die Wunde streuen — To deliberately make someone's pain or humiliation worse.
More Spanish idioms
- a todo mecate — At full speed; with maximum effort; going all out.
- viva estampa — An exact likeness; someone or something that looks exactly like another.
- éramos pocos y parió la abuela — as if that wasn't enough, things went from bad to worse.
- de un plumazo — suddenly or in a single swift action, as if accomplished with one stroke of a pen.
- ni a tiros — absolutely not; under no circumstances.
- a la buena de Dios — To proceed carelessly or without proper planning, leaving the outcome to chance or fate.