medir el agua a los tamales

Language: es

1.
SpainLatin Americaneutral
- To measure the water needed to make tamales (literal, culinary instruction).
2.
MexicoCentral AmericaMexico City slangcolloquialinformal
- To be excessively stingy, exact, or parsimonious when allocating resources or assistance; to ration unnecessarily.

Examples:

No examples available.

Validation Count: 0

Sourced from Wiktionary