Cacho’s Spanish Word Blog

Once you achieve a reasonably advanced level of proficiency in Spanish, you will need to bolster your understanding of idiomatic expressions. To help you do this, you’ll probably want to purchase a good reference book of idioms. Of course, there are several good options. Here’s a review of Barron’s Spanish Idioms. The review includes a few [...]

Quite a few idiomatic expressions use “la mano” which, as I’m sure you know, means “hand”. (Just a quick, friendly reminder that “mano” is feminine even though it ends with the letter “o”. That’s right, it’s irregular, amigo.) Now let’s look at a few expressions using “mano” that I find particularly useful or amusing. darse [...]