This site uses cookies. Some of these cookies are essential to the operation of the site, while others help to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used. For more information, please see the ProZ.com privacy policy.
Cookie settings
  1. KudoZ™ Top
  2. English to Italian
  3. Idioms / Maxims / Sayings

not too big for his breeches

Italian translation: non alzare la cresta

GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW)
English term or phrase:not too big for his breeches
Italian translation:non alzare la cresta
Entered by: Danila Moro

11:04 Apr 12, 2016
English to Italian translations [PRO]
Medical - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings / caso clinico (psicoanalisi)
English term or phrase: not too big for his breeches
Karl’s mother was a very moralistic
and critical figure in his life, an overseer of standards virtually impossible to meet, because
to please her Karl had to be both the high achiever/master of the universe that his father
was and, at the same time, to be irreproachably modest, not too big for his breeches, free
of any taint of unseemly self-regard.

Un modo di dire carino che non sia "darsi delle arie" (che non mi pare del tutto adeguato)?
Danila Moro
Italy
Local time: 12:12
non alzare la cresta
Explanation:
un'idea (dalle nostre parti si direbbe "stare schiscio..." ;-)))

alzare (o mettere su) la cresta ≈ alzare il capo (o la testa), darsi delle arie, imbaldanzirsi, inorgoglirsi, insuperbirsi, montarsi la testa.
http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/cresta_(Sinonimi-e-Contra...

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 14 mins (2016-04-12 11:19:06 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

azz, beccata! - ma nel frattempo cucino pure, vedi tu! :o)

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 1 day3 hrs (2016-04-13 14:21:01 GMT) Post-grading
--------------------------------------------------

tranqui: schiscia e pure con le orecchie abbottonate! ;-)))
Selected response from:

AdamiAkaPataflo
Germany
Local time: 12:12
Grading comment
non sbagli un colpo, ma schiscia, eh! ;)
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +6non alzare la cresta
AdamiAkaPataflo
4stare al proprio posto
Lisa Jane
3tenere a bada la superbia
Mary Giachetti
3non montarsi la testa
Elena Zanetti


Discussion entries: 2





  

Answers


16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
tenere a bada la superbia


Explanation:
Ciao Danila,

Leggendo la frase mi è venuto in mente "tenere a bada la superbia / l'ambizione " oppure un altro sostantivo che sia adatto al personaggio.

Mary Giachetti
Spain
Local time: 12:12
Works in field
Native speaker of: Italian
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
non montarsi la testa


Explanation:
altra idea

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 1 ora (2016-04-12 12:32:48 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

non alzare troppo le ali

Elena Zanetti
Italy
Local time: 12:12
Works in field
Native speaker of: Italian
PRO pts in category: 34
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
stare al proprio posto


Explanation:
Altra possibilità :)



Lisa Jane
Italy
Local time: 12:12
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 31
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +6
non alzare la cresta


Explanation:
un'idea (dalle nostre parti si direbbe "stare schiscio..." ;-)))

alzare (o mettere su) la cresta ≈ alzare il capo (o la testa), darsi delle arie, imbaldanzirsi, inorgoglirsi, insuperbirsi, montarsi la testa.
http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/cresta_(Sinonimi-e-Contra...

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 14 mins (2016-04-12 11:19:06 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

azz, beccata! - ma nel frattempo cucino pure, vedi tu! :o)

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 1 day3 hrs (2016-04-13 14:21:01 GMT) Post-grading
--------------------------------------------------

tranqui: schiscia e pure con le orecchie abbottonate! ;-)))

AdamiAkaPataflo
Germany
Local time: 12:12
Native speaker of: Italian
PRO pts in category: 98
Grading comment
non sbagli un colpo, ma schiscia, eh! ;)
Notes to answerer
Asker: vedo che "cazzeggi" su proz oggi.... Buona :)


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  P.L.F. Persio: la mia bisnonna diceva "manco avesse un acino di pepe in culo".
1 min
  -> viva la bisnonna (quando vado in pensione - ahhh - mi metto a compilare un dizionario globale dei modi di dire (con traduzione a fronte ieri: oggi) :-)))
agree  Lorenzo Rossi: Non avevo mai sentito dire "avere un acino di pepe nel culo" Proprio divertente!
36 mins
  -> nemmeno io, su ProZ s'impara sempre qualcosa di nuovo :-)) grazie, caro
agree  Strazza Silvia
2 hrs
  -> grazie, Silvia :-)
agree  Vienna P.: giusto. e un applauso alla nonna di missdutch. anche la mia usa modi di dire a dir poco "coloriti". tornando al punto, quando ero giovane dicevamo anche "fly down", che ovviamente non si adatterebbe a questo contesto.
7 hrs
  -> he he, il celebre "vola basso", anche a me è venuto in mente. grazie, biddu'!
agree  tradu-grace: ottima Pataf! :-))
9 hrs
  -> grazie, dolciume :-)
agree  Silvia Pellacani: "Vola bass e schiva i sass" (Emilia) ;-)
13 hrs
  -> preciso! ;-))) grazie, carissima
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)



Login or register (free and only takes a few minutes) to participate in this question.

You will also have access to many other tools and opportunities designed for those who have language-related jobs (or are passionate about them). Participation is free and the site has a strict confidentiality policy.

Return to KudoZ list

KudoZ™ translation help

The KudoZ network provides a framework for translators and others to assist each other with translations or explanations of terms and short phrases.

See also:
ProZ.com term search
Search millions of term translations
Close search
Term search
  • All of ProZ.com
  • Term search
  • Jobs
  • Forums
  • Multiple search