126 - One of my favorite Italian idioms (6)
One of my favorite Italian idioms is "buono come il pane" ("good as bread") which is said when you want to emphasize that someone is a really good person. If you know someone who has a gold heart and never speaks badly of others, then he or she is a good candidate to be labelled as "good as bread". This is a very common Italian idiom, and perhaps one of the most famous and known. It is so common that it is used even in my dialect, which is not such a common fact, since provincial dialects are usually very different from Italian, especially for this kind of thing. Hence, if you want to sound like an Italian native speaker, now you know what to say.
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126 - One of my favorite Italian idioms (6)
One of my favorite Italian idioms is "buono come il pane" ("good as bread") which is said when you want to emphasize that someone is a really good person. If you know someone who has a gold heart and never speaks badly of others, then he or she is a good candidate to be labelled as "good as bread". This is a very common Italian idiom, and perhaps one of the most famous and well known. It is so common that it is used even in my dialect, which is not such a common fact, since provincial dialects are usually very different from Italian, especially for this kind of thing. Hence, if you want to sound like an Italian native speaker, now you know what to say.
Have you ever heard about this Italian idiom? Do you like it?
I'm not sure what this phrase means, is the dialect not common? Or is it because your dialect doesn't share much cultural similarities with Italian?
excellent grammar and expression!
I love that idiom. To me it means omeone who is good and wholesome all the way through to the core.
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126 - One of my favorite Italian idioms (6)
One of my favorite Italian idioms is "buono come il pane" ("as good as bread"), which is said when you want to emphasize that someone is a really good person. If you know someone who has a heart of gold and never speaks badly of others, then he or she is a good candidate to be labelled as "good as bread". This is a very common Italian idiom, and perhaps one of the most famous and known. It is so common that it is even used in my dialect, which is not normal, since provincial dialects are usually very different from Italian, especially for this kind of thing. Hence, if you want to sound like an Italian native speaker, now you know what to say.
Have you ever heard of this Italian idiom? Do you like it?
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Thank you every much
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Hi Antonello. Quite good.
Notice that although "idiom" isn't wrong as such, it might be more common to say "saying".
"AS good as bread" because we are making a comparison.
Technically, gold is an adjective and you were right to put it before heart. But it is a common expression - that's the way we say it. It's just a case of practice, to learn these strange forms.
I changed "common fact" to normal, mainly so as not to repeat common.
Well done. Simon.
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