gastar la pólvora en salvas

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Spanish

Verb

gastar la pólvora en salvas (first-person singular present gasto la pólvora en salvas, first-person singular preterite gasté la pólvora en salvas, past participle gastado la pólvora en salvas)

(idiomatic) to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic

Further reading

“gastar la pólvora en salvas”, 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

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