caer de bruces

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Spanish

Verb

caer de bruces (first-person singular present caigo de bruces, first-person singular preterite caí de bruces, past participle caído de bruces)

  1. (also pronominal, idiomatic) to fall flat on one's face
    • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 251:
      Cuando mata a un hombre y éste cae de bruces
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