senza fiato
Italian
editEtymology
editLiterally, “without breath”.
Prepositional phrase
edit- out of breath
- Synonym: trafelato
- 2012, John Green, translated by Giorgia Grilli, Colpa delle Stelle [The Fault in our Stars], Mondadori, page 169:
- Ero senza fiato quando sono crollata su una sedia accanto a Isaac, e ho passato tutto il tempo della confessione di Patrick sulla sua mancanza di palle a dire ai polmoni che andava tutto bene, che potevano respirare, che c'era abbastanza ossigeno.
- I was really out of breath by the time I settled into a chair next to Isaac, and I devoted the entirety of Patrick’s nutless testimonial to telling my lungs they were okay, that they could breathe, that there was enough oxygen.
- (literally, “I was out of breath when I collapsed on a chair next to Isaac, and I passed all the time of Patrick's confession on his lack of balls to tell my lungs that everything was going well, that they could breath, that there was enough oxygen.”)
- (figurative, by extension) breathless, amazed