Italian term
United States
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, Italian to English, Portuguese to English
Stiamo dando i numeri
"Stiamo dando i numeri! adesso vogliono farci comperare XXXXXXXXXXXXXX! non sanno più come fare per farci spendere soldi in cose superflue."
| 4 | This is madness |
SYLVY75
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| 4 | We are losing it! / We're losing our marbles! |
Lara Barnett
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| 4 | We are not all there! |
#JuliaC#
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| 4 | The world's gone mad! |
Ivana UK
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Proposed translations
This is madness
The Italian expression 'stiamo dando i numeri' should be read as 'stanno dando i numeri', talking about other people whose ideas the speaker doesn't like at all. ;)
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Note added at 15 ore (2011-05-24 06:14:00 GMT)
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Just to clarify this a little bit more, 'dare i numeri' means a lot of things: to ramble, to talk nonsense, to say something absurd/unacceptable/unreasonable, to lose it, to go bonkers/berserk, etc.
In this case, the speaker is venting his feelings and expressing his anger at someone (a person, a company, a TV commercial) who's trying to sell the umpteenth useless stuff, so I'd go for an expression like 'this is madness/crazy/absurd' in order to convey the right feeling of annoyance.
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Native in: English (Variants: Singaporean, UK, South African, British, Scottish, Irish) 
Works in: French to English, Italian to English, Romanian to English, and 2 more.
We are losing it! / We're losing our marbles!
We are not all there!
The world's gone mad!
The world's gone mad - now they want us to buy ...
** Agree with Sylvy75 - the use of 'we' isn't appropriate here **
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