echar la regla

Spanish

Verb

echar la regla (first-person singular present echo la regla, first-person singular preterite eché la regla, past participle echado la regla)

to measure with a ruler
(by extension) to examine or check closely

Further reading

“echar la regla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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