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What does “Estar hasta las narices” mean?

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Estar hasta las narices

Word for word

To be up to the nostrils

What it really means

To have had enough, to be unable to stand a person or a situation any longer. It nearly always comes followed by «de» and the reason.

How we say it in English

To be fed up to the back teeth

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