di bocca in bocca
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Literally, “of mouth in mouth”.
Prepositional phrase[edit]
- by word of mouth
- 2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:
- Possiamo comunicare il nostro sapere solo di bocca in bocca, di generazione in generazione.
- We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation.
- (literally, “We can communicate our knowledge only by word of mouth, from generation to generation.”)