a ham sandwich (slang)
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un salame lesso Explanation: un'idea che mi è venuta al volo, vedi se ti piace.... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 12 min (2017-04-04 11:49:51 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- o anche semplicemente "un panino al salame", un tramezzino di pollo, un merluzzo affumicato, uno spiedino arrosto... insomma si potrebbe dire qualsiasi cosa venga in mente che non ha senso ;) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 36 min (2017-04-04 12:14:02 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- o, se vuoi forzare la metafora, "uno stinco di santo".... |
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| Reference: nella stampa Reference information: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-01-14/news/930316205... January 14, 1993 "Normally, a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich." -Sen. Charles Robb (D-Va.), expressing surprise that a grand jury refused to indict him on charges of conspiring to release a secretly recorded tape of a phone call by his political rival, Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder. *** https://qz.com/303017/the-bizarre-tale-of-the-indict-a-ham-s... “Ham sandwich” has become shorthand for district attorneys who abuse their prosecutorial discretion—either by pushing through weak cases, or, as critics have alleged in the Ferguson case, by derailing cases that they don’t want to prosecute for personal reasons. *** http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/a-grand-jur... Title: A grand jury could 'indict a ham sandwich', but apparently not a white police officer In 1985, the New York Daily News quoted former Chief Judge Sol Wachtler as saying that if they so desired, a prosecutor could persuade a grand jury to 'indict a ham sandwich'. It doesn't seem like an awful lot has changed decades later, with Five Thirty Eight pointing out today that, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, of the 162,000 federal cases US attorneys prosecuted in 2010 (the most recent year data was released for), grand juries only declined to return an indictment in 11 of them. |
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