nadar y tener la ropa

Meanings:

• 1.

  SpainLatin Americaneutral
  • To swim while keeping one’s clothes on or dry; a literal variant meaning to swim and still have one’s clothes.

• 2.

  SpainLatin Americaidiomaticcolloquial
  • To try to preserve one’s advantage while avoiding the accompanying risks or obligations; to attempt to have it both ways.