a uña de caballo
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Spanish[edit]
Adverb[edit]
- (idiomatic) riding (a horse) as fast as one can
- 1891, Benito Pérez Galdós, Ángel Guerra:
- […] salir pitando para Portugal a uña de caballo.
- get out there and make for Portugal as fast as his horse's legs could carry him.
- (idiomatic) like a bat out of hell
- 1894, Ricardo Palma, Tradiciones peruanas, Monja y cartujo:
- Entretanto don Alonso escapó a uña de caballo, y doña Elvira se fue a Chuquisaca y se refugió en la casa materna.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading[edit]
- “a uña de caballo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014