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no dejar títere con cabeza

/ˌno deˌxaɾ ˌtiteɾe kon kaˈbeθa/

verb/ˌno deˌxaɾ ˌtiteɾe kon kaˈbeθa/

to smash up everything in sight; to do away with everything

Literally, “to not leave a puppet with a head”. The term alludes to a scene in Don Quixote (Volume 2 Chapter 26) in which in one of Don Quixote's daydreams he mistakes dolls for a maiden's real captors and thus cuts off all their heads.