echarse al plato
Spanish
Alternative forms
- echarse (short form)
Verb
echarse al plato
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: to serve (on an dish, plate).
- (idiomatic, Mexico) to eat, eat up, devour; to consume
- Ayer me eché cinco quesadillas en la cena.
- Yesterday I ate up five quesadillas.
- (idiomatic, Mexico) to kill someone or something
- Ya se echaron al plato al alcalde.
- Now the mayor was killed.