Me chiamano pe’ paesi
To brag! I am highly sought after. In all the small towns of the district I am in great demand for my renowned skills.
Notwithstanding the fact that it could also be an inconvenient boast if the towns were few and very small.
My fame would turn out to be a miserable thing. So watch out it could be a classic boomerang bragging…
Ciaone
A big hello. It is not a goodbye. Means a movement away. Inability. It judges peremptorily a situation or behavior far from the possibility of being realized. Ciaone is also a bit prophetic. It tells us that something will never happen, or at least it will be very complicated. So… better to greet first, without skimping on the size of the greeting, because the object of this big greating is probably not close neither in time, nor in space. The ingredients are 60% irony. 10% contemptuous tone. 20% negative rating. The last 10% we leave to improvisation…
Ma che davero davero?!
Espressione articolata atta a significare gran stupore, incredulità, anche usata in termini di avvertimento, quando qualcuno sta superando un certo limite. Da notare l’uso raddoppiato rafforzativo del “davero”, indice di doppia incredulità e quindi doppia perdita di pazienza…
Mo’ te passo aa sveja
I’m about to beat you. What could even have a positive effect on you, waking you up from sleep (of reason?) in which you are.
Avemo fatto 30 famo 31
You know when you’re at the very end of something. And that little that is missing assumes a completely different weight. But once we get to a certain point, it is wise to take a further step, even if it is also hard, the sight of the end is allegiance to the last effort.
Non so piu a chi da’ i resti
There is little or nothing left of me. I’m exhausted, tired, destroyed. So that I do not know who to give that little remains of me.
Me sta a parti’ la brocca
Or even “I’m flipping out”. I’m getting crazy, or in any case I’m close to a “snap”, a loss of control, an altered reaction.
Probably refers to when the nervousness leads to throwing glass jugs against someone else, causing cracks and wounds.
Hai cacato fori dar vasetto
This time you really exaggerated (meaning metaphorically an action that you are very ashamed of and which will force you to remedy your actions not without pain, you will have to clean the floor from your excrement indeed).
Na pinza e na tenaja
It is said about a person who is particularly refusing to speak. So the words are extracted with tools such as clamp or pincers…
Suora, tua. Chiuso.
This sentence brings us back to childhood when, as a kid, on the streets of Rome, we met a nun, it was common to pronounce this expression, then touch a friend, and cross our fingers. Basically it was a small magical rite that protected us from the proverbial misfortune brought by the sight of a nun, and passed this “zella” (badluck) (as it is said in Rome) to the unfortunate who was touched, which had to be fast enough to touch someone else before he crossed his fingers, making himself immune.
Here is the imagination of the child who grew up in the same city where the pope lives …
Here is a detailed explanation (in italian) >>
Ma chi te manna!
Your arrival (but also your presence or some of your actions or affirmations) is particularly welcome, enough to make us wonder who was sending you (probably intending some divine intervention)
Manco a li cani
About things or people (probably paraphrasing food) that is not good even for dogs that are used to eating everything without hesitation.
Omo de panza omo de sostanza
When eating well, and with some regularity, it is an indication of human power.
And when the physical aspect makes sense of a social position of a certain value.
Stai a cercà Maria pe Roma?
One might think to the logical and literal meaning: waste time, pursuing useless and difficult task to accomplish (imagine how many girls named Maria live in Rome), however, it is more commonly used to ask provocatively if “you” are looking for trouble, probably because whoever pursues an unlikely goal is a “time-waster”, and sometimes this kind of people having nothing to do, just look for or create problems.