jugarse el pellejo

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Spanish

Etymology

Literally, to play one's skin.

Verb

jugarse el pellejo (first-person singular present me juego el pellejo, first-person singular preterite me jugué el pellejo, past participle jugado el pellejo)

  1. to risk one's life by doing something risky
    • 2000, Jorge Ramos, La Otra Cara de América, Prólogo, page 19:
      En los más de tres mil kilómetros de frontera entre México y Estados Unidos chocan las voluntades de los que apenas tienen para vivir y de los que viven en la nación con más multimillonarios del mundo; de los que se juegan el pellejo para sobrevivir y de los que han hecho de la seguridad y la acumulación de capital un modo de vida.
      In the more than three thousand kilometers of border between Mexico and the United States clash the wills of those who barely have enough to live and of those who live in the nation with the most billionaires in the world; of those who risk their lives to survive and of those who have made security and capital accumulation a way of life.

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