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What does "me salió el tiro por la culata" mean?
What does "me salió el tiro por la culata" mean?
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It backfired.
The word culata means the back of a gun, so a more literal translation would be "The gunshot came by the wrong end", but the idiom above has exactly the same meaning.
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- Spanish (Mexico)
@isa_ferris
"culata" is the rear part of a gun, it happened sometimes the gun shot went out from the rear part instead, the meaning of this phrase is when you want to damage someone, but turns out you hurt yourself.
For example you kick a ball very hard pointing to someone you want to hurt, but the ball bounce back to you and you get hurt
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Que las cosas no salieron como lo esperabas o que las cosas se salieron de control y resultaste afectado.
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