avere le carte in regola

Italian

Etymology

Literally, “to have the cards in order”.

Verb

avére le carte in regola (first-person singular present (with syntactic gemination after the verb) hò le carte in regola, first-person singular past historic èbbi le carte in regola or ébbi le carte in regola, past participle avùto le carte in regola, first-person singular future avrò le carte in regola, first-person singular subjunctive àbbia le carte in regola, second-person singular imperative àbbi le carte in regola, auxiliary avére)

1. to have all the required documents
2. (figurative, by extension) to put forward the qualities necessary to achieve a goal; to have what it takes