tirar del carro

Literally, “pull [from] the cart”.

tirar del carro (first-person singular present tiro del carro, first-person singular preterite tiré del carro, past participle tirado del carro)

1. (idiomatic) to do the donkey work

• “tirar del carro”, 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