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Conges terminology question
149 months ago
Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:
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Language pair: |
Italian > English |
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Subject: |
Other |
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Easy / medium |
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Word or term in question: |
lo voleva tenere in caldo |
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Context: |
Gli altri sostenevano che Mussolini, togliendo di mezzo Ciano al momento della stretta... |
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Keywords: |
...finale, lo volevaq tenere in caldo grazie ai suoi precedenti antitedeschi per eventuali trattative di pace...Galeazzo Ciano has just been booted out of his post as foreign minister. |
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149 months ago
wanted to keep him in reserve/on ice
Comments by other colleagues on this answer:
149 months ago
Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL 
wrote:
Exactly! But idiomatically it carries the sense of keeping something in reserve (indefinitely if necessary).
149 months ago
wanted to keep him behind ready to intervene later
149 months ago
Mary Jane
wrote:
He wanted to save him for later
My comment:
This means he wanted to use this personality later on in case he needed to undergo any peace negotiations.
My references:
Italian-English bilingual
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