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  2. Italian profanity - Wikipedia

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    The Italian language is a language with a large set of inflammatory terms and phrases, almost all of which originate from the several dialects and languages of Italy, such as the Tuscan dialect, which had a very strong influence in modern standard Italian, and is widely known to be based on Florentine language. [1]

  3. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    One might also say that an unlikely event will happen "on the 32nd of the month". To express indefinite postponement, you might say that an event is deferred "to the [Greek] Calends" (see Latin). A less common expression used to point out someone's wishful thinking is Αν η γιαγιά μου είχε καρούλια, θα ήταν ...

  4. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    A very drunk former commune in France. Bourré means "drunk" in French. Boș: A village in Romania. Means "balls" or "testicles" in Romanian - and when pronounced properly, it sounds just like "the single-word name" of an important and famous mid-19th century-origin, German high-tech firm!. Bosc-Bordel: A commune in France.

  5. Bevilo tutto - Wikipedia

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    Bevilo tutto ("Drink it all", "Drink it up") is an Italian drinking song. A version is documented in I Nuovi Goliardi - Periodico mensuale di storia Trieste , in the 1880s. [ 1 ] The song was also featured in the movie The Hitman's Bodyguard with Samuel L Jackson singing with some nuns in a bus.

  6. Coffee in Italy - Wikipedia

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    That is about twice as much as is usually drunk in Italy. [ 3 ] Caffè ( pronounced [kafˈfɛ] ) is the Italian word for coffee and probably originates from Kaffa ( Arabic : قهوة , romanized : Qahwa ), [ 4 ] the region in Ethiopia where coffee originated.

  7. List of car crash songs - Wikipedia

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    From the album Folk beat n. 1 – often covered; best known cover is by Italian seminal pop-rock group Nomadi "In the Car Crash" Swayzak: 2002: From the album Dirty Dancing featuring Headgear "In the Curve" The Avett Brothers: 2007: A bonus track off of the album Emotionalism. It describes a drunk driver crashing into a tree and being saved by ...

  8. List of police-related slang terms - Wikipedia

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    "John got arrested for being drunk and disorderly, the police cuffed him and threw him in the back of the Meat Wagon." Not applicable in the United States, where the term is used to describe a coroner's van, nor in Germany, where a Mietwagen is a hired car. Meat wagon is the name given to ambulances in the UK Memur Bey Common slang used in Turkey.

  9. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    Language Biting Eating food Drinking Swallowing Brushing teeth Afrikaans: nom, gomf gloeg gloeg gloeg Albanian: ham, kërr, krrëk ham-ham, njam-njam