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Italian
Etymology
Literally, “at dry mouth”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a‿bˈbok.ka aʃˈʃut.ta/
Prepositional phrase
a bocca asciutta
- hungry, starving, without food
- Synonyms: affamato, digiuno
2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:Sapeva bene che così le lasciava tutt'e due a bocca asciutta, ma non poteva farne a meno; si sentiva perfino in diritto di agire a quel modo.- He knew that he was starving the other two, but he could not help it; he even felt that he had a right to do it.
- (literally, “He knew well that, in this way, he left them both starving, but he could not help it; he even felt entitled to act in that way.”)
- (figurative, by extension) disillusioned
- Synonyms: deluso, a mani vuote
17th century, Jacopo Salviati, Lamento della Sandra innamorata di Fello [Lamentation of Sandra in love with Fello], published 1856, page 153, collected in Rime burlesche di eccellenti autori by Pietro Fanfani:Ed è ver ch'io rimango,
Spietato, a bocca asciutta,
Solo perché tu fai
Di tue parole fango?- Merciless one, am I really to be left disillusioned, just because you don't keep your word?
- (literally, “Is it true that I remain, merciless, with a dry mouth, just because you make of your words mud?”)