Italian edit

Etymology edit

Literally, under the arm.

Prepositional phrase edit

sotto il braccio

  1. under one's arm
    • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 27, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
      Tom Donilon ritornò con me nello Studio ovale, con il suo solito assortimento di raccoglitori e block-notes sotto il braccio...
      Tom Donilon walked back to the Oval Office with me, his usual assortment of binders and notebooks tucked under his arm...
      (literally, “Tom Donilon came back with me to the Oval Office, with his usual assortment of binders and block-notes under his arm...”)