in cammino
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “on path”.
Prepositional phrase
[edit]- on one's way
- Synonym: in viaggio
- 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 10, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
- ... mentre il nostro convoglio avanzava lentamente lungo Pennsylvania Avenue, e si chiacchierava del più e del meno con il presidente Bush, guardai fuori dai finestrini antiproiettile la calca di gente ancora in cammino verso il National Mall...
- ... as our convoy slow-rolled down Pennsylvania Avenue, while I made small talk with President Bush, I looked out the bulletproof windows at the throngs of people who were still on their way to the Mall...
- (literally, “... while our convoy advanced slowly down Pennsylvania Avenue, and we chatted about this and that with President Bush, I looked outside the bulletproof windows at the crowd of people still on their way towards the National Mall...”)