sulla carta
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “on the paper”.
Prepositional phrase
[edit]- (idiomatic) on paper
- Synonym: in teoria
- 2020, Barack Obama, translated by Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, and Giuseppe Maugeri, Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
- Quanto a Joe, non potevamo essere più diversi l'uno dall'altro, almeno sulla carta.
- When it comes to Joe, we could not have been more different from each other, at least on paper.