a occhio e croce
Italian
editEtymology
editLiterally, “at eye and cross”.
Adverb
edit- about, approximately, more or less, at a guess
- Synonyms: all'incirca, circa, approssimativamente, più o meno
- 2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:
- A occhio e croce l'avrebbe detto il corpo di un sessantenne affetto da un male inguaribile.
- At a guess he would have said that it was the body of a man of sixty, suffering from some malignant disease.
- (literally, “At a guess he would have said it was the body of a sixty-year-old affected by an incurable disease.”)