in fuori
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “in out”.
Adverb
[edit]- sticking out; thrust out; out
- spingere in fuori ― to push out
- braccia in fuori! ― arms out to the side!
- occhi in fuori ― bulging eyes (literally, “eyes sticking out”)
- 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 14, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
- In effetti, parlare con Sarkozy era a volte divertente e a volte esasperante, con quelle sue mani sempre in movimento, il petto in fuori come un gallo da combattimento...
- Indeed, conversations with Sarkozy were by turns amusing and exasperating, his hands in perpetual motion, his chest thrust out like a bantam cock's...
- (literally, “Indeed, speaking with Sarkozy was at times fun and at times exasperating, with those hands of his always in movement, his chest thrust out like a fighting cock...”)