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160 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

Italian > English

Subject:

Other

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

ci si mettono

Context:

"Dopo pranzo," disse il principe Brancaccio, " la duchessa D'Harcourt, moglie...

Keywords:

...dell'ambasciatore, pregò Liszt di suonare. Questi si scusò, dicendo che si sentiva stanco. Ma quella dàgli a insistire. Capirà, eminenza," continuò Brancaccio, indicando con la testa la signor Wurts, "quando le donne ci si mettono, che le ferma?"

 

 

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(when) women set their minds to something

My comment:

"Ci si mettono" is an idiom and means also: they are determined, they commit themselves, they engage in something and, even, they are hell-bent on something.