acabar em pizza

Portuguese

Etymology

Literally, “to end in pizza”. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /a.kaˈba(ɾ) ẽj̃ ˈpit.sɐ/, (natural pronunciation) /a.kaˈba(ɾ) ĩ ˈpit.sɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /a.kaˈba(ɾ) ẽj̃ ˈpit.sɐ/, (natural pronunciation) /a.kaˈba(ɾ) ĩ ˈpit.sɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /a.kaˈba(ɾ) ẽj̃ ˈpit.sa/, (natural pronunciation) /a.kaˈba(ɾ) ĩ ˈpit.sa/

Verb

acabar em pizza (first-person singular present acabo em pizza, first-person singular preterite acabei em pizza, past participle acabado em pizza)

1. (Brazil, politics, informal) of a corruption investigation: to be closed without being fully resolved

   Synonym: terminar em pizza

   • Anderson Igor Leal Costa, Um homem desiludido in 2016, Antônio Guedes Alcoforado, Deitado em berço esplêndido, Câmara Brasileira do Livro, page 8:

     Empresas privadas processadas por improbidade administrativa, invasão de áreas indígenas e problemas trabalhistas. Tudo acabou em pizza.

     Private companies sued for administrative misconduct, breaking into indigenous land and workers’ rights issues. Nothing came of it.

2. (Brazil, loosely, informal) of any serious endeavour: to come to an end without concrete results

   Synonym: terminar em pizza

   • January 1997, Placar, Editora Abril, page 23:

     Como o jogo não valia nada, o caso acabou em pizza.

     As the game was worth nothing, the case was dropped.