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Italian
Etymology
Literally, “behind the bars”. Compare French derrière les barreaux.
Prepositional phrase
dietro le sbarre
- behind bars
2020, Barack Obama, chapter 12, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:Diversi elettori democratici chiedevano già come mai non usassimo una maggiore severità con le banche – come mai, cioè... nessuno dei soggetti che aveva provocato un tale sconquasso fosse finito dietro le sbarre.- Already, some Democratic constituencies were asking why we weren't being tougher on the banks–why... none of the individuals who had caused such havoc had gone to jail.
- (literally, “Some Democratic voters were already asking how come we did not use great severity with the banks – how come, that is to say... none of the subjects that had provoked such a mess ended up behind bars.”)