Italian vs. English Idiomatic Expressions 🇮🇹 🇺🇸

Irene @irenelapreziosa and I try to stump each other with idiomatic expressions in Italian and English, game show style! Who will win?? What is the hardest idiomatic expression among these? Write below if you get 5/5!

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Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart

0:00 Intro
0:47 The Rules of the Game
2:26 Italian Expression 1
3:28 English Expression 1
3:55 Italian Expression 2
6:29 English Expression 2
7:23 Italian Expression 3
9:23 English Expression 3
10:56 Italian Expression 4
12:41 English Expression 4
14:20 Italian Expression 5
15:21 English Expression 5
18:07 OVERTIME Italian Expression 6
19:04 OVERTIME English Expression 6
20:10 OVERTIME Italian Expression 7
21:04 OVERTIME English Expression 7
23:14 Outtakes

[polyMATHY_Luke]

Irene and I try to stump each other with idiomatic expressions in Italian and English, game show style! Who will win?? What is the hardest idiomatic expression among these? Write below if you get 5/5!

🦂 Support my work on Patreon:

📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks:

🤠 Take my course LATIN UNCOVERED on StoryLearning, including my original Latin adventure novella "Vir Petasātus"

🦂 Sign up for my Latin Pronunciation & Conversation series on Patreon:

☕ Support my work with PayPal:

And if you like, do consider joining this channel:



🏛 Ancient Greek in Action · Free Greek Lessons:

👨‍🏫 My Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata playlist · Free Latin Lessons:

🦂 ScorpioMartianus (my channel for content in Latin, Ancient Greek, & Ancient Egyptian)

🎙 Hundreds of hours of Latin & Greek audio:

🌍 polýMATHY website:

🌅 polýMATHY on Instagram:

🦁 Legio XIII Latin Language Podcast:

👕 Merch:


📖 My book Ranieri Reverse Recall on Amazon:

Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart

00:00 Intro
00:47 The Rules of the Game
23:15 Outtakes
2:26 Italian Expression 1
3:28 English Expression 1
3:55 Italian Expression 2
6:29 English Expression 2
7:23 Italian Expression 3
9:23 English Expression 3
10:56 Italian Expression 4
12:41 English Expression 4
14:20 Italian Expression 5
15:21 English Expression 5
18:07 OVERTIME Italian Expression 6
19:04 OVERTIME English Expression 6
20:10 OVERTIME Italian Expression 7
21:04 OVERTIME English Expression 7
23:14 Outtakes

[Aureus_]

The Chemistry is impeccable, and no finer language than Italian for love.

[_Agosto_]

Luke: "hi, I'm Luke and this is Polymathy"
Irene: *AO*

[hrafnagu]

Maybe I need to shave my head and learn Latin 😂 Love the video mate.

[vulkanofnocturne]

"without using the bonus!" she's a sore winner.

[RVered]

Luke, you'll never master Italian if you don't 🤌👌👐😅🤣😅

[richardwaring]

At home in the UK, even though the no sh*t Sherlock phrase existed, we had to say 'dont teach your grandmother to suck eggs' as the more common reference to fictional detectives would lead to the rough edge of my Mum's tongue for using bad language!

[jeremiasrobinson]

For me, things like background music make it more challenging when I am listening in a language which is not my first language.

[wagncarv]

'To make a mountain out of a molehill'. In Brasil we have an quivalent 'to make a storm in a glass of water', 'fazer tempestade num copo d'água'

[thadtuiol]

Luke is punching above his weight class there

[bleepbloop]

Figures of speech include all literary manipulation of language - hyperbole, metaphor, idioms, etc. Idioms are a subset of figures of speech that are not logically deducible from the literal meaning of the words.

So they're both. Idioms are a type of figure of speech.

[christopherbartley]

Short Circuit. What a strange and hyperspecific movie reference 😂

[xjmmjbnqfstjdijoj]

Another way to say "hai scoperto l'America", is "hai scoperto l'acqua calda" (you discovered hot water)

[Metagrinner]

Who won? You're a loving couple wanted each other to win. I think you both won.

[equolizer]

I'd say Luke won, because he is engaged to Irene.

[pierreabbat]

Instead of making a mountain out of a molehill, several languages make an elephant out of a fly.

[irenelapreziosa]

Questo video è la dimostrazione che, anche se conosciamo bene una lingua, spesso le espressioni idiomatiche ci sfuggono. È stato divertente e un bell’esercizio! Mi sento un eager beaver per il prossimo video! 🦫😂 Non vedo l’ora di imparare di più! ❤

[fallowfieldoutwest]

Feels like 'si chiama Pietro e torna indietro' could only work with the precise gesturing and cadence of an Italian

[henryangeles]

I’d love to see more like this. Understanding idioms is one of the more difficult challenges of reading Italian for me

[D.S.handle]

I think that if you are planning to do another one of this, you should translate the Italian expression for the people who are not currently learning Italian.

Edit: I mean to literally translate the words.