cerrar el paso

Spanish

Verb

cerrar el paso (first-person singular present cerro el paso, first-person singular preterite cerré el paso, past participle cerrado el paso)

1. (idiomatic) to get in the way

Further reading

• “cerrar el paso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28