English translation of "fu rinvenuta a braccia aperte" - "was found with open arms"

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137 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	Italian > English
Subject:	General
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	fu rinvenuta a braccia aperte
Context:	Un ignoto fante l'aveva colpito in fronte il 19 giugno 1918 mentre sul Montello mitragliava el nemico a volo radente. La salma soltanto cinque giorni appresso fu rinvenuta a braccia aperte, vicino allo Spad (fighter plane) carbonizzato, tra la Bisa delle Rane e l'Abazzia di Nervesa dal Capitano Ranza e dal Tenente Osnago, della sua squadriglia, acccompagnati dal giornalista Garrinei. The open arms of whom? Angels?

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137 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL wrote:

stumbled on the corpse, its arms [wide] open

My comment:

This preserves the element of 'stumbled upon', but makes it clear whose arms were open!

Maybe 'arms akimbo' would work, though I've only heard this in the context of 'legs akimbo' meaning 'legs apart'... :-/

137 months ago

Josephine Cassar wrote:

they stumbled upon the corpse with (the) open arms

My comment:

the corpse had open arms

137 months ago

Translatexpress wrote:

was found with open arms

My comment:

or was found arms open, perhaps.

My references:

the subject is la salma, the corpse.