dejar caer
Spanish
editEtymology
editLiterally, “to let fall”.
Verb
editdejar caer (first-person singular present dejo caer, first-person singular preterite dejé caer, past participle dejado caer)
- (idiomatic) to fall, to drop, to plop
- (idiomatic) to let slip (mention)
- 2023 July 24, Carlos E. Cué, “La resistencia del PSOE y Sumar frustra la mayoría del PP y Vox y deja abiertas todas las posibilidades”, in El País[1], retrieved 2023-07-24:
- Feijóo gana, pero Sánchez crece en votos y escaños y deja caer que intentará volver a gobernar[.]
- [Alberto Núñez] Feijóo wins, but [Pedro] Sánchez grows in votes and seats and lets slip that he will try to govern again[.]
Further reading
edit- “dejar caer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28