escurrir la bola
Spanish
Verb
escurrir la bola (first-person singular present escurro la bola, first-person singular preterite escurrí la bola, past participle escurrido la bola)
- (idiomatic, figurative) to dodge the bullet
Further reading
- “escurrir la bola”, 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