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)

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

Further reading

• “echar la regla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16