condensato — potted - come-at-able, getatable, get-at-able - inaccessibile — un-come-at-able, ungetatable, un-get-at-able - dead-on - lascivo — hot - fly - furibondo — hot under the collar, pissed, seething - furibondo — huffy, mad, sore - furibondo — livid - dinky - attraente — dishy - primo - codardo, pauroso, pavido, timoroso — anxious, chicken, chickenhearted, chicken-hearted, chicken-livered, chinless, coward, craven, fearful, gutless, lily-livered, nervous, spineless, timorous, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied - broken, busted - fannullone, pigro, pigrone, sfaccendato, sfaticato — bone idle, bone-idle, bone-lazy, ease-loving, easy going, easy-going, flabby, idle, lazy, workshy, work-shy - chancy, flukey, fluky, iffy - sonato, stordito — punch-drunk, silly, slaphappy - assonnato, intontito — anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky - buddy-buddy, chummy, thick - togged - nudo come un verme, nudo nato — bare-ass, bare-assed, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, naked as a jaybird, peeled, raw, stark naked - starkers - comodo, confortevole — comfortable, comfy, convenient, easy - bad, tough - flustered, hot and bothered, perturbed, rattled - strabico — boss-eyed - knocked-out - licked - pastoso — plummy - finito — done for, gone, kaput - tall - facile — cushy, easygoing, soft - flat-footed - drogato, ubriaco — hopped-up, stoned - anelante, desideroso, voglioso — anxious, dying, longing - ritzy - het up - appassionato, pazzo di — crazy, dotty, fervent, fervid, gaga, wild - no-frills - pazzo — crazy - big-ticket, high-ticket - figa, figo — cool - di moda — groovy, swagger - in - fossile — prehistoric - danaroso, elegante, facoltoso — classy, posh, swanky, swish - snazzy - zoppo — gammy - niffy - amico — chummy, matey, pally, palsy-walsy - stuffed - bene, di prima qualità, eccellente, eccezionale, fantastico, favoloso, magnifico, meraviglioso, non male, ottimo, sensazionale, stupendo, tagliente — bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, fine, grand, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, out of sight, out of this world, peachy, sensational, slap-up, smashing, swell, terrific, tip-top - pessimo, senza speranza — hopeless - merdoso, pessimo — crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shit, shithouse, shitty, stinking, stinky - no-good, rubber - arrabbiato, seccato — shirty, snorty - straight - impagabile, spassosissimo — killing, killingly funny, priceless, sidesplitting - dickey, dicky - big - futile — fiddling, footling, futile, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trifling, trivial - potty - hep, hip, hip to - highbrow, highbrowed - colossale — banging, humongous, thumping, walloping, whopping - abbondante — man-sized - enorme — whacking - esiguo, frammentario, minuto, piccino — bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy, teensy-weensy, teentsy, teeny, teeny-weeny, wee, weensy, weeny - dinky - hot - canned, transcribed - favorito — blue-eyed, fair-haired, white-haired - hexed, jinxed - blood-and-guts - bodacious - all-fired - decent - together - awful, frightful, terrible, tremendous - some - square - stuck - mind-bending, mind-blowing - elegante — dressy - hot - impazzito, insensato, matto, mezzo matto, pazzo — crackbrained, crazy, half-baked, insane, mad, screwball, silly, softheaded, stupid - high-flown, high-sounding, inflated - promosso senza merito — jumped-up - white-shoe - fat, juicy - kosher - cool - ambiguo, dubbio, dubbioso, equivoco, sospetto — doubtful, dubious, fishy, funny, questionable, shady, suspect, suspicious - lunatico — lunatic, moonstruck - scemo, suonato — screw-loose, screwy - molto bene — all right, fine, hunky-dory, o.k., ok, okay, very well - ennesimo — umpteenth, umptieth, umteenth - hot - clubable, clubbable - bad - shy - di ottima qualità, di prim'ordine, di prima classe, di prima qualità, extra, formidabile, super, superbo — ace, A-one, crack, first class, first-class, first-rate, super, superb, tiptop, topnotch, top-notch, tops - formidabile — boss, brag - cattivo — bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny - logoro, scadente — ropey, ropy - gobsmacked - goggle-eyed, openmouthed, popeyed - jiggered - buttoned-up - pumped, pumped up, pumped-up, wired - economico, frugale, parco — economical, frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting - spento, spossato — all in, beat, bushed, dead - esausto — whacked - che odora di chiuso — fuggy - knock-down-and-drag-out, knockdown-dragout - folle, sciocco — cockamamie, cockamamy, goofy, sappy, silly, wacky, whacky, zany - molto — boiling - all'osso, del tutto, tanto più, totalmente, tutto — all, altogether, clean, completely, entirely, totally, to the bone, whole, wholly - esattamente — plum, plumb - bene, benissimo, ebbene, tutto bene, vabene — all right, alright, fine, O.K., okay - da nessuna parte, da qualche parte, da qualsiasi parte, da qualunque parte, dovunque, in qualsiasi parte, in qualunque parte — anyplace, anywhere - da qualche parte, in qualche parte — someplace, somewhere, somewhere or other - dappertutto, dovunque, in ogni luogo, ovunque, per/in tutto — all over, anywhere, everyplace, everywhere, far and near, far and wide, there and everywhere, wherever - completamente — good and, properly - anon - chiaramente, distinguibilmente, facilmente, in modo evidente, manifestamente, semplicemente, visibilmente — apparently, evidently, just, manifestly, noticeably, obviously, patently, perceptibly, plain, plainly, simply, visibly - estremamente, fortemente, grandemente, terribilmente, tremendamente — awful, awfully, badly, dire, frightfully, sound, soundly, terribly, thoroughly, tremendously - certamente — by all means, without fail - in alcun caso, per nessun motivo — by no means, not by a blame sight, not by a long sight, not for the life of me, not likely!, not on your life!, on no account - good, soundly, thoroughly - flop, right - forever, forever and a day - dingdong - right smart, way - a dir poco, almeno, in ogni caso, per lo meno — anyhow, at all events / at any event, at any rate, at least, leastways, leastwise - irregardless - appunto, certamente, certo, certo!, con sicurezza, davvero, di sicuro, fidatamente, in effetti, infatti, no di certo!, proprio, proprio così, sicuramente, va bene, veramente — certain, certainly, exactly, for certain, for sure, indeed, O.K., quite, really, reliably, right, safely, securely, so, sure, sure as shooting, sure enough, surely, truly - facilmente — easily, easy, readily - easy, soft - adagio, lentamente, lento, piano — dilatorily, easy, slow, slowly, sluggishly, tardily - forzato, tirato per i capelli — far-fetched, in a pig's eye - come un pazzo — like crazy, like hell, like mad, like sin, like the devil, like thunder - senza speranza — hopelessly - dritto, in pieno — bang, bolt, slap, slapdash, smack - rough, roughly - moltissimo — heaps - plop, plunk - chiaramente, decisivamente, improvvisamente — plump - dolcemente — sweet, sweetly - firewall - fix - heavy lifting - partita — biz, game - no-brainer - crapshoot - snogging - wash - baruffa — aggro - fun - inferno — hell, sin - dickeybird, dickey-bird, dickybird, dicky-bird - coniglietto — bunny, bunny rabbit - bib-and-tucker - delf - funny wagon - boom box, ghetto blaster - lemon, stinker - mutandoni — long johns - main drag - put-put - rathole - rattrap - redbrick university - Ritz - security blanket - shooting gallery - vestito della domenica — Sunday best, Sunday best/clothes, Sunday clothes - pittura di guerra — war paint - smoke - classe — class - setup - coraggio, faccia, faccia tosta, fegato, sabbia — backbone, daring, grit, gumption, guts, moxie, nerve, sand, spine, spunk - distaccamento, distanza — way - misura, taglia — number, size of clothes - enormity - noia, scocciatura — drag - hot stuff, voluptuousness - occhio — eye, oculus, optic - peeper - proboscide — proboscis - aria, aspetto, capo, ceffo, faccia, fisionomia, grugno, muso, testa, viso, volto, zucca — countenance, face, gob, head, kisser, mug, phiz, physiognomy, smiler, trap, visage - can of worms - chiodo fisso — hang-up - pensata, pensiero, riflessione — pondering, think, thought - crosshairs - turn-on - negative stimulation, turnoff - plague - bare bones - pertainym - teaser - pickup - parole incomprensibili — double Dutch, double-Dutch - put-down, squelch, squelcher, takedown - rap - bull session - riunione — huddle, powwow - Discorso d'incoraggiamento, discorso di incitamento — pep talk, pep-talk - homestretch - barnburner - lieto evento — blessed event, happy event - creeps - blahs - banger - firewater - swad - maffia, mafia - turf - borscht belt, borscht circuit, borsht belt, borsht circuit - drink - number one - alto papavero, autorità, pezzo grosso — big boss, big cheese, big deal, big enchilada, big fish, big gun, big noise, big shot, big wheel, bigwig, great card, head honcho, high-up, nob, power - maiale, piedipiatti, poliziotto, porco, rame, sbirro, sporcaccione, sudicione — bull, cop, copper, fuzz, pig - canary - cannon fodder, fodder, fresh fish - dick, gumshoe, hawkshaw - idiota — dimwit, doofus, half-wit, nitwit - dinosauro, fossile — dodo, fogey, fogy, fossil, old fart - don't-know - ricettatore, ricettatrice — fence - fallimento, fiasco — dud, flop, washout - stuffed shirt - gal - tipo, vecchio — geezer - head - cacciatore di teste — headhunter - birbante, birbone, carrierista, intrallazzatore, maneggione, operatore — hustler, operator, wheeler dealer - sapientone, sputasentenze — know-all, know-it-all - bighellona, bighellone, fannullone, ozioso, pigro, poltrona, poltrone, scansafatiche, sfaccendata, sfaccendato — idler, lazybones, lazy-bones, loafer, lounger, slacker, sluggard - uomo — man - middlebrow - mouth, mouthpiece - paperhanger - rainmaker - copia, immagine, ritratto, sosia — carbon copy, clone, dead ringer, double, image, look-alike, ringer, spit, spitting image - shoofly - brontolona, brontolone, musona, musone — crab, curmudgeon, gloomy Gus, moper, picklepuss, pouter, sourpuss, wet blanket - frondista — greyback, Johnny, Johnny Reb, Reb, Rebel - guastafeste — killjoy, party pooper, spoilsport, wet blanket - square, square toes - thrush - townee - bellumore, persona spiritosa — card, man of wit, wag, wit - woman - cleanup, killing - giveaway - meal ticket - valori — swag, valuables, values - ice, sparkler - mucchio, sacco — load - soup - size, size of it - state - frazzle - callosità, durezza — horniness, hotness, hot pants - crampo — charley horse, charley-horse, cramp, muscle cramp, throe - giù di corda — dumps, mopes - opportunità — crack, shot - street - aria viziata — fug - soup - sticks and stone - week from Monday - month of Sundays - blue moon - figure - andare a piedi, andare col cavallo di San Francesco — foot, go on foot, go on shanks's pony, hoof, hoof it, leg it, ride shanks's pony - andarsene — clear off, decamp, skedaddle, skip, vamoose - keep one's eyes open, keep one's eyes peeled, keep one's eyes skinned - give it a try, give it a whirl - break - AAVE, African American English, African American Vernacular English, Black English, Black English Vernacular, Black Vernacular, Black Vernacular English, Ebonics - demente, matta, matto, pazza, pazzo — crazy, looney, loony, nutcase, weirdo - throw - live[Domaine]

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