Tener más cara que espalda

Meaning: To be utterly shameless and brazen.

Language: Spanish

Literally: To have more face than back

Category: Body & Senses

Origin: In Spanish slang a big 'face' means nerve; here it is outsized beyond all proportion to the body.

More idioms — Body & Senses

• Non avere peli sulla lingua — To speak bluntly and hold nothing back.
• Avere le mani bucate — To be a spendthrift.
• Остаться с носом — To be left empty-handed or outwitted.
• Делать ноги — To run away quickly.
• Заговаривать зубы — To distract someone with smooth, evasive talk.
• 二階から目薬 — A roundabout effort that has no real effect.

More Spanish idioms

• Tener mala uva — To have a nasty temper or ill intentions.
• Ponerse como una sopa — To get soaked to the bone.
• Estar hasta en la sopa — To be everywhere; impossible to avoid.
• Buscarle tres pies al gato — To overcomplicate things; to look for trouble.
• Estar frito — To be fed up or worn out.
• No dar pie con bola — To get everything wrong; to do nothing right.

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