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Italian
Etymology
Literally, “at one's place”.
Prepositional phrase
al proprio posto
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see al, proprio, posto.
- in one's lane; in one's place
- mettere qualcuno al proprio posto ― to put someone in their place
2020, Barack Obama, chapter 22, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:... e il mio consigliere per la sicurezza nazionale Jim Jones, che proveniva da un ambiente militare in cui la catena di comando era sacra e i subordinati erano tenuti a stare al loro posto.- ... and my national security advisor, Jim Jones, who'd come out of a military culture in which chains of command were inviolate and subordinates were expected to stay in their lanes.
- (literally, “... and my national security advisor, Jim Jones, who came from a military environment in which the chain of command was sacrosanct and subordinates were required to stay in their lanes.”)