/paˌsaɾse de la ˈraʝa/ lit. ‘to go past the line’
Spanish idiom, everyday. Don’t push it, that’s going too far.
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How do people use Pasarse de la raya
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Everyday Spanish, polite enough for anyone and common as a warning or a complaint. Usually reflexive and conjugated: “te estás pasando de la raya”, “esta vez te pasaste de la raya”. Without “se” it describes a thing: “eso ya pasa de la raya” (that’s going too far).
Also said pasar de la raya, pasarse de raya, pasar de raya
Pasarse de la raya
in real sentences
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Esta vez te has pasado de la raya.
This time you went too far.
Tatoeba, sentence by Shishir, translation by marcelostockle, CC BY 2.0 FR
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Esta vez te pasaste de la raya.
This time, you’ve crossed the line!
Tatoeba, sentence by alexmarcelo, translation by Hybrid, CC BY 2.0 FR
Where does Pasarse de la raya
come from?
A raya is a line or stripe, so the picture is stepping over a line drawn on the ground. The Real Academia’s dictionary lists it as “pasar, o pasarse, de la raya, o de raya”. Nobody knows which line was first meant, and I found no first recorded use.
Mistakes learners make with Pasarse de la raya
Leaving out “de”. “Te pasaste la raya” sounds like you literally walked past a stripe; you need “te pasaste de la raya”.
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