echar a la calle
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[edit]Verb
[edit]echar a la calle (first-person singular present echo a la calle, first-person singular preterite eché a la calle, past participle echado a la calle)
- (idiomatic) to dismiss or fire someone
- El dueño nos ha echado a todos a la calle.
- The owner has fired us all.
- (idiomatic) to evict someone
- Si no paga el alquiler que debe, lo echarán a la calle.
- If he doesn't pay his overdue rent, he will get evicted.
Further reading
[edit]- “echar a la calle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014