quemarse las cejas

Language: es

1.
SpainLatin Americaneutralliteral
- To burn one's eyebrows literally, referring to the physical act or risk of singeing the eyebrow hair.
2.
SpainLatin Americacolloquial
- To study or work intensively for long hours, often to the point of exhaustion.

Examples:

ES: Los empleados del Smithsonian tienen que quemarse las cejas estudiando.
EN: [Car horn honks] Smithsonian employees have to bone up.

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