Talk:fare l'impossibile

RFD discussion: October–December 2020

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fare l'impossibile

Italian SOP as "to do the impossible." Imetsia (talk) 22:17, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Delete. HeliosX (talk) 02:18, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Delete. Ultimateria (talk) 23:45, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Delete. --Robbie SWE (talk) 14:41, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

• If not keep, we might want to add this as a usage example to it component parts Kilo Lima Mike (talk) 10:39, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
• I take it this doesn't mean "pull out all the stops"?Troll Control (talk) 12:01, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

  @Troll Control: I don't know about the Italian, but the French cognate, faire l’impossible, means more or less that; see wordreference. And it feels like an idiom / lexical unit. 2A02:2788:A4:205:29FF:D95E:382C:FD20 12:16, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

I've put off closing this vote, having gotten some second thoughts about this term's idiomacity. But no more hesitation: I withdraw this nomination. Imetsia (talk) 15:48, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

RFD-kept. Imetsia (talk) 15:48, 21 December 2020 (UTC)