tenere in scacco
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “to keep in check.”
Verb
[edit]- (chess) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tenere, in, scacco.
- (figurative, by extension) to prevent (someone) from taking action; to paralyze
- 2024 December 9, The Editorial Board, “Fermato Luigi Mangione, sospetto killer del Ceo Thompson. Il “manifesto”: “Questi parassiti se la sono cercata” [Luigi Mangione, suspected killer of CEO Thompson, arrested. The "manifesto": "Those parasites were asking for it"]”, in il Fatto Quotidiano[1]:
- Proprio come Theodore Kaczynski, il matematico pluriassassino di Harvard soprannominato Unabomber che negli anni Novanta tenne in scacco l’America con una catena di pacchi bomba e che Luigi aveva dimostrato di ammirare mettendo il like sui suoi scritti nei social.
- Just like Theodore Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician and serial murderer nicknamed "the Unabomber" who in the Nineties held America in check with a chain of parcel bombs and whom Luigi had shown he admired by liking his writings on social media.