Lost in Literal

🇮🇹 Italian, taken literally

Mettere la pulce nell'orecchio

Literally

to put a flea in someone's ear

What it really means

to plant a doubt or suspicion in someone's mind

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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