de claro en claro
Spanish
Adverb
- (idiomatic) sleeplessly; without sleeping a wink
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- la excelente mujer no durmió en la noche del 24, porque toda ella se la pasó de claro en claro, ora batiendo huevos […] ora desplumando aves […]
- the most excellent lady did not sleep on the night of the 24th, because she spent it sleeplessly, be it beating eggs […] , plucking birds […]
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Further reading
- “de claro en claro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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