Hello! Are you prone like me to beating around the bush? Then, you have to know how to properly use the phrase in Spanish!

In this expression we are drawing the attention to the fact that the other person or ourselves are straying too far from the original topic of the conversation.

I like the visual of this expression. It makes me think of a little monkey jumping from one branch to another, and then to another tree, and oops, into a city.

We can use it in the NEGATIVE IMPERATIVE:

• Pará, no te vayas por las ramas.

With the CONTINUOUS periphrasis:

• Perdón, me estoy yendo por las ramas.

In the PAST

• Se fueron por las ramas y todo quedó en la nada.

As well as in the PRESENTE

• Siempre te vas por las ramas.

There you go. Another idiom for your collection.

Until next time,

Thanks for reading, and happy Spanish learning,

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