irse al garete
Spanish
Verb
irse al garete (first-person singular present me voy al garete, first-person singular preterite me fui al garete, past participle ido al garete)
- to be driven by the force of the wind, the sea or the current (due to having lost the anchors or some other failure) (of a boat)
- (idiomatic) to go bad, to spoil
See also
Further reading
- “irse algo al garete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024