"salir al paso" meaning in Spanish

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "salgo al paso",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "salí al paso",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "preterite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "salido al paso",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "salir al paso (first-person singular present salgo al paso, first-person singular preterite salí al paso, past participle salido al paso)",
      "name": "es-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "\"What's going on?\", shouted the Magister, approaching the nanny, as if he wanted to refute the news",
          "ref": "1900, Leopoldo Alas, La Regenta, chapter XXIX",
          "text": "-¿Qué hay? -gritó el Magistral acercándose a la criada, como queriendo salir al paso a las noticias",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to refute, to deny"
      ],
      "id": "en-salir_al_paso-es-verb-jjmOFRgb",
      "links": [
        [
          "refute",
          "refute"
        ],
        [
          "deny",
          "deny"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to refute, to deny"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "34 66",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The government has wanted to address that worry, claiming that corruption will not pay.",
          "ref": "2023 January 15, Francisco Longo, “La insoportable levedad de la malversación”, in El País",
          "text": "El Gobierno ha querido salir al paso de esa inquietud aduciendo que la corrupción no va a salir beneficiada",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to address a concern, to mitigate, to meet a need, to counter"
      ],
      "id": "en-salir_al_paso-es-verb-ESuk75NL",
      "links": [
        [
          "address",
          "address"
        ],
        [
          "mitigate",
          "mitigate"
        ],
        [
          "meet",
          "meet"
        ],
        [
          "counter",
          "counter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to address a concern, to mitigate, to meet a need, to counter"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "salir al paso"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Spanish lemmas",
    "Spanish multiword terms",
    "Spanish verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "salgo al paso",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "salí al paso",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "preterite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "salido al paso",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "salir al paso (first-person singular present salgo al paso, first-person singular preterite salí al paso, past participle salido al paso)",
      "name": "es-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Spanish idioms",
        "Spanish terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "\"What's going on?\", shouted the Magister, approaching the nanny, as if he wanted to refute the news",
          "ref": "1900, Leopoldo Alas, La Regenta, chapter XXIX",
          "text": "-¿Qué hay? -gritó el Magistral acercándose a la criada, como queriendo salir al paso a las noticias",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to refute, to deny"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "refute",
          "refute"
        ],
        [
          "deny",
          "deny"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to refute, to deny"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Spanish idioms",
        "Spanish terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The government has wanted to address that worry, claiming that corruption will not pay.",
          "ref": "2023 January 15, Francisco Longo, “La insoportable levedad de la malversación”, in El País",
          "text": "El Gobierno ha querido salir al paso de esa inquietud aduciendo que la corrupción no va a salir beneficiada",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to address a concern, to mitigate, to meet a need, to counter"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "address",
          "address"
        ],
        [
          "mitigate",
          "mitigate"
        ],
        [
          "meet",
          "meet"
        ],
        [
          "counter",
          "counter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to address a concern, to mitigate, to meet a need, to counter"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "salir al paso"
}