"meter la cuchara" meaning in Spanish

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      "form": "meto la cuchara",
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      "form": "metí la cuchara",
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  "lang_code": "es",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Still could not stick my oar in in the feast of blackmail: but can not be said of this water that I will not drink",
          "ref": "1887, Francisco Moreno, Cuba y su gente: apuntes para la historia, page 34",
          "text": "Aún no pudo meter la cuchara en el festín del chantage: pero no puede decirse de este agua no beberé",
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          "english": "[…] and reached the corner where they had been left alone, because in these cases no one dared to stick their oar in.",
          "ref": "1981, Rafael Flores, En una caja oscura, page 79",
          "text": "[…] y llegaba hasta el rincón donde los habían dejado solos, porque en estos casos nadie osaba meter la cuchara.",
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          "english": "At the moment it occurred to me to butt in because he wanted to avoid another evening at all costs",
          "ref": "1996, Loreina Santos Silva, Este Ojo Que Me Mira, page 80",
          "text": "De momento se me ocurrió meter la cuchara porque quería evitar a toda costa la nueva velada",
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        "to butt in; to stick one's oar in"
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        "(idiomatic) to butt in; to stick one's oar in"
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          "word": "meter cuchara"
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  "word": "meter la cuchara"
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        {
          "english": "Still could not stick my oar in in the feast of blackmail: but can not be said of this water that I will not drink",
          "ref": "1887, Francisco Moreno, Cuba y su gente: apuntes para la historia, page 34",
          "text": "Aún no pudo meter la cuchara en el festín del chantage: pero no puede decirse de este agua no beberé",
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          "english": "[…] and reached the corner where they had been left alone, because in these cases no one dared to stick their oar in.",
          "ref": "1981, Rafael Flores, En una caja oscura, page 79",
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    {
      "word": "meter cuchara"
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  "word": "meter la cuchara"
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