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Joel & Jan's avatar

I have an entire collection of “expressions which in Italian involve food but in English do not,” over 60 of them at last count. One other is also from PdG: “dice pane al pane e vino al vino” (meaning “tell it like it is.”)

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Parola del Giorno (#PdG)'s avatar

I had a book I bought several years ago on food idioms; I need to dig it up! That's also a good example!

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