carta bianca

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Italian

Etymology

Calque of French carte blanche.

Noun

carta bianca f (plural carte bianche)

  1. carte blanche
    • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 26, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
      ... se a porla non fosse stato un partito che, sul fronte della politica estera, aveva concesso ripetutamente carta bianca alle amministrazioni precedenti...
      ... were it not coming from a party that had repeatedly given previous administrations carte blanche on the foreign policy front...
      (literally, “... if it were not posed by a party that, on the foreign policy front, had repeatedly given carte blanche to preceding administrations...”)