in gamba
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Etymology
Literally, “on legs”, as opposed to be sick in bed.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
- healthy
- (by extension) showing initiative, industriousness, or vigor; on the ball
- 1946, Ernest Hemingway, translated by Giuseppe Trevisani, Fiesta [The Sun Also Rises], Einaudi:
- Era tanto in gamba che Spider Kelly prestissimo lo mise fuori combattimento e gli ammaccò irrimediabilmente il naso.
- He was so good that Spider promptly overmatched him and got his nose permanently flattened.
- (literally, “He was so on the ball that Spider Kelly knocked him out really quickly and irremediably bruised his nose.”)
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