Taliančina | Angličtina |
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il bue che dice cornuto all'asino noun | pot calling the kettle black(situation in which somebody accuses someone else of a fault shared by the accuser) |
il bue che dice cornuto all'asino phrase | I know you are but what am I(assertion that an insult made by the party to whom the phrase is directed is actually true of that party) it takes one to know one(an insult which is true about both the sender and the receiver) |
Il Cairo proper noun {f} | Cairo(capital of Egypt) |
il calzolaio ha le scarpe rotte phrase | the shoemaker's children go barefoot(one often neglects those closest to oneself) |
il cane vecchio non si abitua più alla catena phrase | you can't teach an old dog new tricks(too old to change) |
il cattivo noun {m} | villain [villains](bad person in a stage or screen play) |
il cliente ha sempre ragione phrase | the customer is always right(proverb) |
il comandante affonda con la nave phrase | the captain goes down with the ship(a leader is ultimately responsible for the penalties of a catastrophe) |
il conto phrase | the bill, pleasephrase |
il crimine non paga phrase | crime doesn't pay(if you a commit a crime you will most likely be punished for it) |
il cui determiner | whose(of whom (relative)) |
il dado è tratto verb | cross the Rubicon(to make an irreversible decision) |
il dado è tratto phrase | the die is cast(conclusive action has been taken, so events will proceed in an irreversible manner) |
il definire noun {f} | definition [definitions](act of defining) |
Il Demonio noun {m} | demon [demons](false god, Satanic divinity) |
il denaro non ha odore phrase | money does not smellphrase |
il denaro non puzza phrase | money does not smellphrase |
il desiderio rende lunga l'attesa phrase | a watched pot never boils(a process appears to go more slowly if one waits for it) |
il diavolo proper noun {m} | devil(the devil: the chief devil) |
il diavolo è nei dettagli phrase | devil is in the details(specific provisions of something may be complicated) |
il diavolo fa le pentole ma non i coperchi phrase | truth will out(truth will inevitably be discovered) |
il diavolo si nasconde nei dettagli phrase | devil is in the details(specific provisions of something may be complicated) |
il dono della parlantina noun {m} | gift of the gab(ability to talk readily) |
il Dottor noun | Doctor(title of a doctor, used before the doctor's name) |
il Dottore noun | Doctor(title of a doctor, used before the doctor's name) |
il Duce proper noun {m} | Il Duce(title assumed by Mussolini) |
il Duce del Fascismo proper noun {m} | Il Duce(title assumed by Mussolini) |
il figlio del calzolaio va in giro con le scarpe rotte phrase | the shoemaker's children go barefoot(one often neglects those closest to oneself) |
il fine giustifica i mezzi phrase | the end justifies the means(morally wrong actions are sometimes necessary) |
il frutto proibito è il più saporito phrase | forbidden fruit is the sweetest(forbidden things seem more appealing) |
il fulmine noun | tower [towers](Tarot card) |
il gatto ti ha mangiato la lingua? phrase | cat got someone's tongue(why are you not saying anything?) |
il giorno del giudizio universale noun {m} | doomsday(day when God is expected to judge the world) judgement day(Last Judgement) |
il giorno dopo adverb | the next dayadverb |
il giorno prima adverb | the day before(on the preceding day) |
il giorno seguente adverb | the next dayadverb |
il Kuwait proper noun {m} | Kuwait(country in the Middle East) |