What does estar hecho polvo mean?

ExpressionColoquial

to be shattered

Turned to dust, literally. It covers physical tiredness and the other kind, and it is one of the most common ways of saying you have nothing left. It agrees with the speaker: hecha polvo, hechos polvo.

No salgo hoy, que estoy hecho polvo.
Exhaustion, and usually the end of the negotiation.

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Unit 02

¡Cuánto tiempo!

«hace un siglo que no sé nada de ti»

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