fuori del seminato
Meaning: Off the point; irrelevant or beside the subject at hand.
Language: Italian
Literally: outside of the sown field
Category: Nature
Origin: The image is of straying beyond cultivated land into wild or uncultivated territory, metaphorically used for departing from the main topic.
More idioms — Nature
- preparare il terreno — To establish the conditions or foundations that will make something possible later.
- adagiarsi sugli allori — To become complacent and stop making efforts after past successes.
- arrastar pela lama — to publicly humiliate or damage someone's reputation.
- do dia para a noite — Very suddenly or extremely quickly.
- olho da tempestade — A moment of unexpected calm or peace in the middle of chaos or crisis.
- fazer uma tempestade num copo de água — To make an excessive fuss over something trivial.
More Italian idioms
- senza colpo ferire — Without any struggle, opposition, or difficulty; achieved effortlessly.
- essere di casa — To be accepted as a family member; to feel completely at home and comfortable somewhere.
- a viso aperto — Openly and frankly; without deception or concealment.
- cavare le castagne dal fuoco — To help someone out of a dangerous or difficult situation, often at one's own risk or eff…
- come butta — What is happening; how are things going.
- girare a vuoto — To spin idly without accomplishing anything; to waste time in aimless activity.
From our tongue twisters
- Trentatré trentini entrarono a Trento tutti e trentatré trotterellando. — An unbroken stampede of 'tr' and 't'.
- Tigre contro tigre, tigre contro un'altra tigre. — Pure 't/ig/re' drill — short and merciless; the double-g demands a crisp Italian stop.
- Apelle figlio di Apollo fece una palla di pelle di pollo e tutti i principi della città di Capua la palpeggiarono. — A wall of 'p/ll/l/a' that seems to grow longer as you speak it faster.