Uomo Immagine

English translation: image man or symbol man

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Italian term or phrase:	Uomo Immagine
English translation:	image man or symbol man
Entered by:	emanuela.v

15:48 Nov 17, 2008

Italian to English translations [PRO]
Law/Patents - Law (general)

Italian term or phrase: Uomo Immagine

Hello, I am working on a legal document- a "memoria di replica" and within the document there is a description that the defendant has made of the plaintiff and then reference later on includes the term "uomo immagine". I am sure it is totally straightforward to translate I just can't for the life of me think of the precise translation for this phrase.
The sentence as it appears is:
"Ancora più stupefacente appare il fatto che questo "uomo immagine", così cerca di farlo apparire controparte, si sia visto offrire dopo pochi anni di attività l'acquisto della società."

I know this isn't a legal term per se but as it appears in a legal doc. I thought I'd rather leave it under this heading.
Many thanks for any help!

Emma Turner KudoZ activity Questions: 45 (none open) (5 closed without grading) Answers: 0
Local time: 07:00

image man or symbol man

Explanation:
I think that they are speaking about a man qhose image represents something. Image man in this case is the best solution. maybe symbol man is even better

Selected response from:

emanuela.v
Italy
Local time: 08:00

Grading comment

Thanks to everyone for all your input (and apologies for delayed awarding of points). I wanted to wait until I had finished the translation to respond. I know there wasn't an awful lot of context for this phrase- so I appreciate people were offering suggestions "blind" in a sense- but having gone through the document the translation is in fact "image man" - purely from the fact that this is what was meant in the Italian- that it was suggested the guy was employed solely for his "image"- even though I know front man or showman also work well as translations of the phrase in itself. Thanks again.
3 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +6

front man

Tom in London

image man or symbol man

emanuela.v

Pin-up man

Rossella Tramontano

show man

Traducendo Co. Ltd

man obsessed with image

JRM (X)

imaginary man

Jean Martin

man of straw

Laura Pili

Answers

4 mins confidence:

show man

Explanation:
think the sense is this, even if it's ugly, but after 8 h of pc can't do anything better.;-)

Traducendo Co. Ltd
Malta
Local time: 08:00
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Italian
PRO pts in category: 4

15 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

front man

Explanation:
da quel poco che sono riuscito a capire dalla domande e dal contesto offerto, mi pare che questo sia il senso. "Front man" ovvero uomo-paravento.

Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:00
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 343

8 mins confidence:

man obsessed with image

Explanation:
It's hard to tell without seeing the rest of the document, but it seems like this man is as an upstart, someone who had pretensions of the company being offered for sale to him

http://www.google.co.uk/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q="man...

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Note added at 16 mins (2008-11-17 16:04:25 GMT)
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alternatively "image-obsessed man"
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q="image-obsessed"&btnG...

JRM (X)
Native speaker of:

English,

Maltese
PRO pts in category: 85

32 mins confidence:

imaginary man

Explanation:
When I first read this, this was my immediate thought.

Without knowing the facts of the case, I could be barking up the wrong tree of course!

Jean Martin
Local time: 07:00
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 598

1 hr confidence:

man of straw

Explanation:
It's hard without more context, I do not know whether it could be ok

Laura Pili
Italy
Local time: 08:00
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Italian

1 hr confidence:

image man or symbol man

Explanation:
I think that they are speaking about a man qhose image represents something. Image man in this case is the best solution. maybe symbol man is even better

emanuela.v
Italy
Local time: 08:00
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Italian
PRO pts in category: 37

Grading comment

2 hrs confidence:

Pin-up man

Explanation:
try this

Rossella Tramontano
Italy
Local time: 08:00
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Italian
PRO pts in category: 8

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