parar el carro

Spanish

Verb

parar el carro (first-person singular present paro el carro, first-person singular preterite paré el carro, past participle parado el carro)

1. (idiomatic) to rein in, to pull up, to put an end to something (stop somebody doing something by reprimanding)

Further reading

• “parar el 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