Lost in Literal

🇮🇹 Italian, taken literally

Avere le mani bucate

Literally

to have holes in one's hands

What it really means

to spend money like water, to be a spendthrift

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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