Lost in Literal

🇮🇹 Italian, taken literally

Avere la coda di paglia

Literally

to have a tail made of straw

What it really means

to be touchy because of a guilty conscience

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Italian, taken literally

In bocca al lupointo the wolf's mouth Avere le mani in pastato have your hands in the dough Non vedo l'oraI don't see the hour In gambaon legs Acqua in boccawater in your mouth Prendere in giroto take [someone] in a circle