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18:55 Nov 11, 2019
English to Italian translations [PRO] Slang Additional field(s): Cinema, Film, TV, Drama, General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
English term or phrase:omnishambolic
Definition from Oxford Dictionary: Adjective: A situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations. First used in the British satirical television series The Thick of It.
Example sentence(s):
Ken could still win. Anger at the Prime Minister and his omnishambolic administration could still tip the scales. The Telegraph
On charities, the reality is that the Prime Minister is not making the rich worse off. He is making charities worse off. Over the past month we have seen the charity tax shambles, the churches tax shambles, the caravan tax shambles and the pasty tax shambles, so we are all keen to hear the Prime Minister’s view on why he thinks, four weeks on from the Budget, even people within Downing Street are calling it an omnishambles Budget. Parliament of the United Kingdom
Shambles si riferisce alle aree dei mercato comunali dove stavano i macellai, quindi al caos e disordine che vi regnava. In italiano macello esprime proprio gran disordine. [Treccani] Con altro uso fig., fam., gran disordine o confusione, di persone o di cose: fare un m.; era un m. lì dentro; che macello, ragazzi!, anche per significare esclamativamente ed enfaticamente il carattere straordinario di un fatto o di una situazione.
Da:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnishambles "The word is compounded from the Latin prefix omni-, meaning "all", and the word shambles, a term for a situation of total disorder. Originally a "shambles" denoted the designated stock-felling and butchery zone of a medieval street market, from the butchers' benches (Latin scamillus "low stool, a little bench"). The word refers to a situation that is seen as shambolic from all possible perspectives."
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