comerse la cabeza — meaning & examples

Meanings:

• 1.

  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?