Lost in Literal

🇮🇹 Italian, taken literally

Fare di una mosca un elefante

Literally

to make an elephant out of a fly

What it really means

to blow something way out of proportion

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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