echar humo

Spanish

Etymology

Literally, “to give off smoke”.

Verb

echar humo (first-person singular present echo humo, first-person singular preterite eché humo, past participle echado humo)

1. (idiomatic) to blow one's top, to fume

Further reading

• “echar humo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014