avere le mani in pasta

Italian

Etymology

Literally, “to have [one's] hands in pasta/dough”.

Verb

avére le mani in pasta (first-person singular present (with syntactic gemination after the verb) hò le mani in pasta, first-person singular past historic èbbi le mani in pasta or ébbi le mani in pasta, past participle avùto le mani in pasta, first-person singular future avrò le mani in pasta, first-person singular subjunctive àbbia le mani in pasta, second-person singular imperative àbbi le mani in pasta, auxiliary avére)

1. (idiomatic) to be involved in something