meter el pie

Spanish

Verb

meter el pie (first-person singular present meto el pie, first-person singular preterite metí el pie, past participle metido el pie)

1. (idiomatic) to slip up (make a mistake)

Further reading

• “meter el pie”, 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