Imagine you visit a museum expecting admission to be around $20 per person, but then you find out that admission is actually half price that day. Or say you didn’t study for the exam but still passed it with good grades.In Italian, they may use idiomatic phrases to describe such situations Go luxuryused when things go well due to pure luck or despite adverse circumstances.
Some possible translations include “Fortunately“,”lucky“,”Get off easily“, or “Walk happily“.
Go to luxury
Good luck/get off easily
go is a verb meaning “go” However luxurious is a noun meaning “luxurious” or”brilliant”, so you can literally translate this phrase as “walk luxuriously“.
You’ll almost always see this phrase used with an indirect object pronoun, e.g. rice (for you), of (for you), this (to him/them) etc.
- I feel luxurious. = I’m very lucky.
- You feel luxurious. = You’re in luck.
- It’s a luxury for him. = He’s lucky.
- This is a luxury for her. = She is lucky.
- This is a luxury. = We are very lucky.
- This is a luxury for you. = you (all) lucky.
- This is a luxury for him. = They are lucky.
He thought he would have to wait at the station for hours because of the strike, but instead he had a great time and the train was only ten minutes late.
He thought he would have to wait at the station for hours because of the strike, but he was lucky and the train arrived only 10 minutes late.
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