/esˌtaɾ ˌasta las naˈɾiθes/ lit. ‘be up to your nostrils’
Spanish idiom, colloquial. To have completely run out of patience with something.
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How do people use Estar hasta las narices
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Colloquial but not rude, so you can say it to a friend, a parent or a colleague. Always with “estar”, and the thing you’re fed up with takes “de”: “estoy hasta las narices de esto”, “estamos hasta las narices de tus quejas”. It also works on its own as an outburst: “¡estoy hasta las narices!”
Also said hasta las narices
Estar hasta las narices
in real sentences
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¡Estoy hasta las narices!
I’m fed up with it!
Tatoeba, sentence by Shishir, translation by wma, CC BY 2.0 FR
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Estoy hasta las narices de esto.
I’m fed up with this.
Tatoeba, sentence by cueyayotl, translation by CK, CC BY 2.0 FR
Where does Estar hasta las narices
come from?
The image is a body filling up with annoyance until it reaches the nose, like water rising, and English Wiktionary glosses it literally as being up to one’s nose. It belongs to a family that measures how fed up you are by a body part, from the polite “coronilla” (the crown of the head) to vulgar versions English Wiktionary lists alongside it. I found no recorded first use.
Mistakes learners make with Estar hasta las narices
Using the singular. “Estoy hasta la nariz” sounds wrong, because the set phrase always takes the plural narices even though everyone involved has just the one nose.
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