I’m sure we’ve all encountered gossip or news at some point in our lives that left us dumbfounded. In Italian, you can use a wonderful idiom to express this feeling –stay shocked– This essentially means Dumbfounded/dumbfounded.
stay shocked
Dumbfounded/dumbfounded
stucco is an Italian word plaster, stucco or puttyso the literal translation of this idiom is “leave plaster”. According to Franco Ciarleglio, Vibrant Adagian expression that compares the quick-setting quality of plaster to the sudden, startled expression that seems to appear on a human face when hearing something surprising or unexpected.
I was amazed when I read about all the things he did.
When I read about all the things he did, I was blown away.
verbs are interchangeable stay (Keep) and Keep (stay).Similarly, there are several words that can replace stucco include Sale (Salt), Sasso (stone) and Prince Beko (Pingback), the meaning of the expression does not change.
I was stunned!
I was stunned!
according to Focus boymany ancient myths tell stories of individuals being transformed into salt statues, which is synonymous with keep salty From. For example, Lot's wife was punished for disobeying God's command not to look back when Sodom and Gomorrah faced divine destruction.
Heather Broster is a graduate with honors in linguistics from the University of Western Ontario. She is an aspiring polyglot, fluent in English and Italian, as well as varying degrees of fluency in Japanese, Welsh and French. Originally from Toronto, Heather has lived in several countries, notably Italy for six years. Her main research areas are language acquisition, education and bilingual teaching.
