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Italian
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Noun
cane sciolto m (plural cani sciolti)
- maverick person
2009, Daniele Luttazzi, “Pesci selvatici e le melodie delle foreste andaluse [Wild fish, and the melodies of Andalusian forests]”, in La guerra civile fredda [Cold Civil War], 2nd edition (paperback), Feltrinelli, →ISBN, page 208:Perché sono un cane sciolto. L'Italia è divisa in clan che si spartiscono il potere. Se non appartieni a nessuno di essi, ti fanno fuori in due secondi.- Because I'm a maverick. Italy is divided into clans which share the power amongst themselves. If you don't belong to any of those, they take you out in two seconds.
Further reading
- cane in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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