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Spanish
Verb
pegar la hebra (first-person singular present pego la hebra, first-person singular preterite pegué la hebra, past participle pegado la hebra)
- (idiomatic) to shoot the breeze; to chitchat
1887, Benito Pérez Galdós, “La boda y la luna de miel”, in Fortunata y Jacinta:La sobremesa fue larga. Pegaron la hebra D. Basilio y Nicolás sobre el carlismo, la guerra y su solución probable, y se armó una gran tremolina, porque intervinieron los farmacéuticos, que eran atrozmente liberales, y por poco se tiran los platos a la cabeza.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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