all'unisono

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Literally, at unison. Compare French à l’unisson.

Prepositional phrase[edit]

all'unisono

  1. in unison
    • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 25, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
      In parte per assicurarmi che tutti cantassero all'unisono... feci una capatina non programmata a una riunione del comitato direttivo del Consiglio per la sicurezza nazionale nella Sala operativa.
      Partly to make sure that everyone was singing from the same hymnal... I paid an unscheduled visit to a meeting of the NSC Principals Committee in the Situation Room...
      (literally, “In part to make sure that everyone was singing in unison... I made an unscheduled visit to a meeting of the directive committee of the National Security Council in the Situation Room.”)