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Italian
Etymology
Literally, “of brief visit”.
Adverb
di sfuggita
- (idiomatic) in passing
2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:Viveva in un pensionato con altre trenta ragazze («Sempre donne tra i piedi! Quanto le odio!» disse di sfuggita), ed era addetta, come Winston aveva immaginato, alle macchine scriviromanzo del Dipartimento di Letteratura.- She lived in a hostel with thirty other girls ("Always in the stink of women! How I hate women!" she said parenthetically), and she worked, as he had guessed, on the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department.
- (literally, “She lived in a hostel with thirty other girls ("Always women in my hair! How much I hate them!" she said in passing), and she was assigned, as Winston had imagined, to the novel-writing machines of the Literature Department.”)