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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:

a peso d'oro

Context:

La villa Sciarra dominava in pieno i Castelli Romani. I viali ombrosi, arricchiti da...

Keywords:

...piante esotiche importate a peso d'oro da molti parti del mondo,...

 

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160 months ago

  See profile wrote:

dearly imported from or imported and dearly paid for from a great many regions of the world

160 months ago

  See profile wrote:

at a very high price, at a mighty high price

My comment:

"A peso d'oro" significa "a carissimo prezzo": vuol dire che l'importazione di questa piante esotiche è costata tantissimo, quasi uno sproposito.

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160 months ago

  See profile wrote:

Exactly.

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160 months ago

  See profile wrote:

...gold bullion

My comment:

It means the value ofd the gold per the current market price by weight (carat)

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160 months ago

  See profile wrote:

Actually no, that's not what it means here; it's an idiom for "extremely expensive."