quebradero de cabeza
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “head breaker”.
Noun
[edit]quebradero de cabeza m (plural quebraderos de cabeza)
- (figurative, idiomatic) headache, worry
- 2020 May 16, Rafa de Miguel, “Johnson confunde al Reino Unido con su estrategia contra el virus”, in El País[1]:
- Empezando por las residencias de mayores, que continúan siendo el principal quebradero de cabeza de Downing Street.
- Starting with the nursing homes, which are still the main headache for Downing Street.
Further reading
[edit]- “quebradero de cabeza”, 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