bacio della morte
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “kiss of the death”.
Noun
[edit]bacio della morte m (plural baci della morte)
- (idiomatic) kiss of death
- 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 11, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
- Come potevo sapere che quel mio gesto di due secondi si sarebbe dimostrato, politicamente, un bacio della morte?
- How could I know that my two-second gesture would prove to be a political kiss of death for him?
- (literally, “How could I have known that that two-second gesture of mine would have proven, politically, a kiss of death?”)