tra i piedi

Italian

Etymology

Literally, “between the feet”.

Prepositional phrase

tra i piedi

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tra,‎ piedi.
2. (idiomatic) providing bother or frustration; in one's hair
   • 2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:

     Viveva in un pensionato con altre trenta ragazze («Sempre donne tra i piedi! Quanto le odio!» disse di sfuggita), ed era addetta, come Winston aveva immaginato, alle macchine scriviromanzo del Dipartimento di Letteratura.

     She lived in a hostel with thirty other girls ("Always in the stink of women! How I hate women!" she said parenthetically), and she worked, as he had guessed, on the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department.

     (literally, “She lived in a hostel with thirty other girls ("Always women in my hair! How much I hate them!" she said in passing), and she was assigned, as Winston had imagined, to the novel-writing machines of the Literature Department.”)

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