What does tirar la casa por la ventana mean?

ExpressionColoquial

to push the boat out

Spending without looking, usually on a one-off: a wedding, a refurbishment, a present. It nearly always turns up in the negative — sin tirar la casa por la ventana — to say that only what was needed got spent, which is precisely the message you want when you are showing somebody a flat.

Para la boda tiraron la casa por la ventana.
Admiring and disapproving at the same time.

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¿Qué tal está el piso?

«estás a tiro de piedra»

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