sotto il braccio
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “under the arm”.
Prepositional phrase
[edit]- under one's arm
- 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 27, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
- Tom Donilon ritornò con me nello Studio ovale, con il suo solito assortimento di raccoglitori e block-notes sotto il braccio...
- Tom Donilon walked back to the Oval Office with me, his usual assortment of binders and notebooks tucked under his arm...
- (literally, “Tom Donilon came back with me to the Oval Office, with his usual assortment of binders and block-notes under his arm...”)