darse de bruces
Spanish
Alternative forms
- dar de bruces
Verb
darse de bruces (first-person singular present me doy de bruces, first-person singular preterite me di de bruces, past participle dado de bruces)
- (idiomatic) to fall face down, to go head first
- (figurative, idiomatic, with "con") to run into, to come across
Further reading
- “dar, o darse, alguien de bruces”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025