comerse la cabeza — meaning & examples

Language: es

Meanings:

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SpainLatin Americainformalcolloquial
- To worry excessively or obsess over a problem or situation.
- To spend a great deal of time thinking about or analyzing something, often without reaching a solution; to rack one's brains.
Examples
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- No te comas la cabeza con los pequeños errores, Marta, todos cometemos fallos alguna vez.
  Don't worry excessively about small mistakes, Marta; we all make errors sometimes.
- Me comí la cabeza toda la semana pensando en cómo decirle la verdad a Carlos.
  I worried all week about how to tell Carlos the truth.
- ¿Por qué te comes la cabeza tanto por algo que no puedes cambiar?
  Why are you obsessing so much over something you can't change?

Examples:

ES: Es que, un mes en aislamiento... da para comerse la cabeza que no veas.
EN: It's just that, a month in solitary... is great for giving you time to think.

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