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Me voy a preparar y salir, si no me va a pillar el toroAn idiom is an expression whose meaning is not readily apparent based on the individual words in the expression. This forum is dedicated to discussing idioms and other sayings. |
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Pillar el toro ?
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literally, "...if the bull doesn't get me.".
so "...if nothing goes wrong." ("...wonderin' where the lions are..." ha.) hermit
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Pillar el toro means Well this is difficult to explain, me va a pillar el toro si no hago los deberes, meaning sth is going wrong, I´ll get grounded or sth like that.
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To get into trouble?
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I think that works perfectly. You might also try "to catch some flak", "to get raked over the coals", "to catch some heat", etc.
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