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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.
English: ' what soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals '; ' he speaks in his drink what he thought in his drouth '; and ' a drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts '. Finnish: Kännisen suusta totuus tulee ' the truth comes from the mouth of a drunkard '.
Grappa is an alcoholic beverage: a fragrant, grape-based pomace brandy of Italian origin that contains 35 to 60 percent alcohol by volume (70 to 120 US proof). Grappa is a protected name in the European Union. Grappa is made by distilling the skins, pulp, seeds, and stems (i.e., the pomace) left over from winemaking after pressing the grapes ...
Dado (in Italian meaning 'dice') Fresco (Italian: affresco from the expression a fresco) Gesso; Graffiti (Italian: graffito, pl. graffiti) Grotto (in Italian grotta, meaning 'cave') Impasto; Intaglio; Loggia (from French loge) Madonna (in Medieval Italian meant Lady, in Modern Italian indicates Mary the Virgin) Magenta (after the Italian town)
(slang, derogatory) foolish person, used esp. in northern England but also common elsewhere. Derived from the Northern English term pillicock, a dialect term for penis, although the connection is rarely made in general use. pinch * to steal. pisshead (vulgar) someone who regularly gets heavily drunk (cf. BrE meaning of pissed).
When vermouth is drunk by itself it is normally consumed as an apéritif. [3] Vermouth is used as an ingredient in many different cocktails, as people found it beneficial for lowering the alcohol content of cocktails with strong spirits as their base, for providing a pleasant herbal flavor and aroma, and for accentuating the flavors in the base ...
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]
The Italian drink Pallini Mistra, named after the Greek city of Mystras in the Peloponnese is a version of ouzo made in Rome that closely resembles Greek and Cypriot ouzo. In Bulgaria and North Macedonia, the similar beverage is called mastika ( Macedonian : Мастика / Bulgarian : Мастика ), a name that is shared by the distinct ...