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a coté de ses pompes

Italian translation: fuori dal mondo

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French term or phrase:a coté de ses pompes
Italian translation:fuori dal mondo
Entered by: Gilda Manara

17:10 Mar 5, 2004
French to Italian translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - History
French term or phrase: a coté de ses pompes
Le diable est le rieur, le moqueur, éternellement distant de lui-meme, de ce pour quoi il avait été créé. Toujours "à coté de ses pompes", il rit betement, méchamment.
Nel testo originale è fra virgolette.
Manuela Carbone
Italy
Local time: 05:51
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Explanation:
L'espressione, popolare, "marcher à côté de ses pompes" significa letteralmente caminare accanto alle proprie scarpe. Ha vari significati in francese:
- ha la mente sconvolta
- è fuori dal mondo
ecc.
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Catherine Prempain
France
Local time: 05:51
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Catherine Prempain
5fuori luogo
Adriano Bonetto


  

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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
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Explanation:
L'espressione, popolare, "marcher à côté de ses pompes" significa letteralmente caminare accanto alle proprie scarpe. Ha vari significati in francese:
- ha la mente sconvolta
- è fuori dal mondo
ecc.

Catherine Prempain
France
Local time: 05:51
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  asthenri (X): per utilizzare un'espressione giovanile: "è fuori come un balcone"…
3 mins
agree  Adriano Bonetto: pardon!
9 mins
  -> Merci à vous deux
agree  Liana Coroianu
2 days 16 hrs
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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
a coté de ses pompes
fuori luogo


Explanation:
può voler dire :
con la testa fra le nuvole (Dictionnaire bilingue de l'argot d'aujourd'hui)
Essere lunatico/pazzo (ibidem)

etre dans un état anormal - déconner -- essere squinternato/pazzoide

spero ti serva

oppure



Adriano Bonetto
Italy
Local time: 05:51
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Native speaker of: Italian
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