Lost in Literal

🇮🇹 Italian, taken literally

Restare con un pugno di mosche

Literally

to be left with a fistful of flies

What it really means

to end up empty-handed, to get nothing out of it

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Italian, taken literally

In bocca al lupointo the wolf's mouthAvere le mani in pastato have your hands in the doughNon vedo l'oraI don't see the hourIn gambaon legsAcqua in boccawater in your mouthPrendere in giroto take [someone] in a circle