dare in pasto
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “to give in meal”, or more loosely translated as “to give as a meal”. Compare French donner en pâture.
Verb
[edit]- (transitive) to feed [with a ‘someone’]
- 2024 May 29 (last accessed), “Episodi di Stranger Things (quarta stagione) [Episodes of Stranger Things (Fourth Season)]”, in Wikipedia[1], archived from the original on 5 November 2022:
- Intanto Hopper e altri detenuti vengono rifocillati solo per essere dati in pasto al Demogorgone.
- Meanwhile, Hopper and the other detainees are stuffed with food just to be fed to the Demogorgon.
- (transitive, figurative, by extension) to spread news [with direct object ‘about something’ and a ‘to someone’]
- L'hanno dato in pasto per la sua corruzione.
- They spread the news [of him] of his corruption.