/saˌkaɾ de ˈkiθjo/ lit. ‘take off the door hinge’
Spanish idiom, everyday. To annoy or irritate someone.
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How do people use Sacar de quicio
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Everyday Spanish, a notch stronger than just “molestar”: it means something annoys you until you’re close to losing it. The thing or person doing the annoying is the subject and you are the object: “me sacas de quicio”, “ese ruido me saca de quicio”. It also has a rarer second sense, to blow something out of proportion.
Also said sacar a alguien de quicio
Sacar de quicio
in real sentences
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¡Me sacas de quicio!
You get on my nerves!
Tatoeba, sentence by alicia, translation by Catriona, CC BY 2.0 FR
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El chillido de la puerta me saca de quicio.
The squeaking of the door gets on my nerves.
Tatoeba, sentence by albrusgher, translation by _undertoad, CC BY 2.0 FR
Where does Sacar de quicio
come from?
A quicio is the part of a door or window frame where the hinge pin turns. Lift a door off it and the door stops swinging and just hangs there wrong, which is how you feel when someone gets to you. English Wiktionary says quicio may come from resquicio (a crack, a gap), but marks that as uncertain. The verb desquiciar (to unhinge) comes from the same picture. I found no first recorded date.
Mistakes learners make with Sacar de quicio
Saying “estoy de quicio” or “me saco de quicio” to mean “I’m annoyed”. The annoying thing does the sacando: “él me saca de quicio”.
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