gastárselas
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡasˈtaɾselas/ [ɡasˈt̪aɾ.se.las]
- Rhymes: -aɾselas
- Syllabification: gas‧tár‧se‧las
Verb
gastárselas (first-person singular present me las gasto, first-person singular preterite me las gasté, past participle las gastado)
- (idiomatic) to be like; to behave; to be up to (generally with negative connotations)
- Synonym: gastarlas
- gastárselas de bohemio
- pass oneself off as a bohemian
- 2012, Guillermo Aguilar Álvarez, Más allá del arco iris:
- debe estar siempre alerta porque ya se dio cuenta cómo se las gasta el General
- He had to always stay alert because he knew what the General was like.
Further reading
- “gastarlas, o gastárselas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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