irse al garete
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Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
irse al garete (first-person singular present me voy al garete, first-person singular preterite me fui al garete, past participle ido al garete)
- to be driven by the force of the wind, the sea or the current (due to having lost the anchors or some other failure) (of a boat)
- (idiomatic) to go bad, to spoil
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Further reading[edit]
- “irse algo al garete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014