in piena regola
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Literally, “in full rule”.
Prepositional phrase[edit]
- full-blown, outright, all-out
- 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 26, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
- Quando se ne impossessò il Tea Party, durante il primo anno della mia presidenza, la storia era ormai diventata una teoria del complotto in piena regola...
- By the time the Tea Party seized on it during my first year in office, the tale had blossomed into a full-blown conspiracy theory...
- (literally, “When the Tea Party got hold of it, during the first year of my presidency, the story had now become a full-blown conspiracy theory...”)