5 Food-Related Italian Insults & Compliments 🇮🇹 TOP Italian Idioms

Описание: Here are 5 food-related Italian expressions

🥩Hai il prosciutto sugli occhi / hai gli occhi improsciuttati
Literally: To have ham over your eyes.
English equivalent: Have your head in the sand.

🍕Che pizza!
Literally: What a pizza!
English equivalent: What a bore!

🐠Che baccalà!
Literally: What a salted cod!
English equivalent: What a fool!

🥩Non fare il salame!
Literally: Don’t act like salami!
English equivalent: Don’t be an idiot!

🌿Sei come il prezzemolo!
Literally: You’re like parsley!
English equivalent: You turn up everywhere!

Parsley is a common ingredient found in many Italian dishes, so if you’re like parsley, then it means you pop up everywhere or are in the way.

🍞Sei un pezzo di pane! - Sei una buona/bravo persona
lui è un pezzo di pane, però quando si arrabbia non ce n’è per nessuno

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