Esame di napoletano per Florenzi con i prof Insigne e Immobile EURO 2016
ENGLISH TRANSCRIPT Here are the ten Neapolitan proverbs that Florenzi had to try and understand: 1. Washing a donkey s head wastes soap and water. (It s no use flogging a dead horse. ) 2. Fry fish in water and get married with dry figs. (When life gives you lemons, make lemonade ) 3. Pay and die as late as possible. (Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. ) 4. Be wary of someone who has two faces, he ll kill you and he ll embrace you. (Be wary of someone who says one thing and does another. ) 5. The fish stinks from the head. (Bad things start with those at the top. ) 6. He only has a head to divide his ears. (He has nothing going on between the ears. ) 7. With one hand in front and the other behind. (Between a rock and a hard place. ) 8. The world is the world: there are those who get to the top and those who fall to the bottom. (Thats life: you sink or you swim. ) 9. When you are an anvil youre still, when you are hammer you strike. (Be pass
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