/esˈtaɾ foˈrado/ lit. ‘to be lined’
Spanish idiom, colloquial. To have a lot of money.
How do people use Estar forrado
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Colloquial and informal, common in Spain and Latin America, often with a touch of envy: “ese tío está forrado”. The verb “forrarse” means getting rich fast: “se forró con la venta”.
Also said estar forrado de dinero, forrarse
Estar forrado
in real sentences
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Tom está forrado.
Tom is loaded.
Tatoeba, sentence by ecorralest101, translation by CK, CC BY 2.0 FR
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Ese tío está forrado.
That dude is rolling in dough.
Tatoeba, sentence by Seael, translation by Asynja, CC BY 2.0 FR
Where does Estar forrado
come from?
“Forrar” means to line a coat or cover a book, so the picture is someone whose pockets and linings are stuffed with money. English Wiktionary lists “wealthy, loaded” as a colloquial sense of “forrado”. There’s no date for when the money sense appeared.
Mistakes learners make with Estar forrado
Using “ser forrado”. Being loaded is treated as a state, so it takes “estar”.
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