NUT[nàt]
Letteralmente, "noce." Figurativamente, "pazzo."
NUT si usa per descrivere una persona pazza o dalle idee pazzesche, illuse. Puo' essere combinato con un altra parola per qualificarlo, eg, "NUT JOB," "NUT CASE," etc.
NUTS o NUTTY sono gli aggettivi.
"Your mother was nuts." Tua madre era pazza.
"The guy who blew up the police station was a real nut job."
Il tizio che fece saltare la questura era proprio pazzo.
"You say he was a genius. I say he was a nut."
Tu dici che era un genio. Io che era illuso.
NUT ha un altro significato, per una persona fortemente interessata a qualcosa:
car nut = appassionato delle auto
health nut = uno che si dedica all'esercizio fisico per motivi di salute
wine nut = appassionato del vino
e via dicendo col senso di confessarsi di essere un po' immoderato nei suoi interessi.
Attenzione!
NUTS anche significa "testicoli".
"That bastard kicked me in the nuts!"
Quel bastardo mi ha calciato le balle!
Stupid Americans in Tuscany
This is how dumb Americans can be --
No, no, let me set this up properly.
A few years ago I met a Tuscan landowner and producer of wine and olive oil (naturalmente). He had a posh agriturismo (let not the name dismay, an agriturismo is a tax dodge). His marketing person had told me that his goal was to get guests to pay to harvest grapes and, later olives. He confirmed this. We laughed. The marketing person then was an American too. "You're gonna make them pay to help you harvest!?" We talked about all those Poles and Romanians who would be jobless if this outlandish idea took hold.
FF to today. The producer and his current marketing person told me that, certo, Americans were paying 100 euros extra to spend 2 days "helping" harvest the grapes. OK, they probably got in the way more than they really helped. Still.
I asked what sort of idiots these people were.
"They're 60 year old people who have never done anything like this, and they were thrilled."
"Oh, they're the sort of Americans who walk around with a smile all the time and are enthusiastic about everything - even being exploited?"
"Yes!" Then they told me I wasn't a typical American. Jesus, I thought, are we all supposed to be that dumb?
"They're not like you! You're not a real American!" What, they've been Twittering with Sarah Palin?
I wondered where these poor saps could have come from. Besides Ohio. Anybody from Ohio is just so tickled to leave the place. I asked, "Well, what did they get in return?"
"Well, we gave them lunch." (!!!)
"What did you give them?"
"Lots of pasta."
"What else?" Blank looks. "A bottle of oil? Some of your cheapest wine?"
They looked at each other hilariously.
"You cheap bastards!"
They laughed and exclaimed, "They loved it! They thought it was a great privilege!"
I told them that if I ever visited them (and I do like their wines), I would avoid harvest time. If I didn't, I'd pretend I didn't speak English, because I'd be highly tempted to start an uprising of the exploited masses (of senior citz).
En bref, mes amis, that is how stupid Americans are supposed to be.
Chinese people, your big moment is coming.
Posted on November 09, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (4)