pasar el rodillo
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paˌsaɾ el roˈdiʝo/ [paˌsaɾ el roˈð̞i.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /paˌsaɾ el roˈdiʎo/ [paˌsaɾ el roˈð̞i.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /paˌsaɾ el roˈdiʃo/ [paˌsaɾ el roˈð̞i.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /paˌsaɾ el roˈdiʒo/ [paˌsaɾ el roˈð̞i.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: pa‧sar el ro‧di‧llo
Verb
pasar el rodillo (first-person singular present paso el rodillo, first-person singular preterite pasé el rodillo, past participle pasado el rodillo)
- (idiomatic) to steamroller; to storm
- to paint with a paintbrush
- to use a rolling pin