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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:

rivedeva tutte le bucce

Context:

Ma la povera Mammina Graziosa si avvide che dietro le spiegazioni ufficiali v'era un unico

Keywords:

..., vero motivo alla base dell'ostracismo inflittole: v'era la stizza di persone che erano stanche di essere controlate rumorosamente da una modesta signorina americana, che rivedeva tutte le bucce e che non era nè bella, nè ricca, nè influente...An American Red Cross worker who advocated for the war wounded in Italy (World War I).

 

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160 months ago

  See profile wrote:

...,who examined everything and everybody in a catty and nit-picking way...

My comment:

rivedere le bucce: esaminare con pignoleria malevola un lavoro svolto

My references:

http://dizionari.corriere.it/dizionario_italiano/B/buccia.shtml

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160 months ago

  See profile wrote:

I feel some kind of irony in the contrast btw. her name "Mammina Graziosa" and the way she was, neither protective nor gentle.

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