de claro en claro
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[edit]Adverb
[edit]- (idiomatic, dated) sleeplessly; without sleeping a wink
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- la excelente mujer no durmió en la noche del 24, porque toda ella se la pasó de claro en claro, ora batiendo huevos […] ora desplumando aves […]
- the most excellent lady did not sleep on the night of the 24th, because she spent it sleeplessly, be it beating eggs […] , plucking birds […]
Further reading
[edit]- “de claro en claro”, 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