white telephone
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Calque of Italian telefoni bianchi.
Noun[edit]
white telephone (countable and uncountable, plural white telephones)
- (derogatory) Italian light-comedy and melodramatic films from the Fascist period.
- (often derogatory) Films of other nations that share a nonseriousness of tone and disconnection from reality with the Italian films.
Adjective[edit]
white telephone (comparative more white telephone, superlative most white telephone)
- (often derogatory) Characteristic of the Italian genre of film, white telephone; a sense of consequence-free lives of privilege.