riscaldamento a manetta

English translation: full blast

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Italian term or phrase:a manetta
English translation:full blast
Entered by: Sergio Fabiani

14:25 Jan 17, 2008
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Automotive / Cars & Trucks / heating
Italian term or phrase: riscaldamento a manetta
From a short advertising text about windscreens. Its the "manetta" i'm confused about. There are a lot of google hits on this for both car and house but I am unsure as to whether it's heating or more specifically windcreen heating (demister). Thank you.

Here is the contest from the spoken text: Ieri appena salito in auto ha attaccato il riscaldamento a manetta. 5 minuti dopo CRAK uno spacco esagerato sul parabrezza.
Lilly1 (X)
heating at full blast
Explanation:
The colloquial "a manetta" in italian comes from the motorcycle world: to spped up and down, you must rotate the steering right handle. Bikers say "andavo a manetta". This way of saying is currently used to express "maximum power" disregarding the context.
A matching "slang" expression for that is "full blast".
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Sergio Fabiani
Local time: 15:58
Grading comment
thank you so much - and I've just spoken to my local linguistic consultant (my landlady) who confitms this!
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Summary of answers provided
5 +1heating at full blast
Sergio Fabiani
4 +1heating at maximum power
Maria Luisa Dell'Orto


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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
heating at maximum power


Explanation:
"a manetta" means at maximum power

Maria Luisa Dell'Orto
United Kingdom
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 86

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  simon tanner
10 mins
  -> Thanks Simon!
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24 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
heating at full blast


Explanation:
The colloquial "a manetta" in italian comes from the motorcycle world: to spped up and down, you must rotate the steering right handle. Bikers say "andavo a manetta". This way of saying is currently used to express "maximum power" disregarding the context.
A matching "slang" expression for that is "full blast".


Example sentence(s):
  • After jumping into the car, I turned up the heating full blast.
Sergio Fabiani
Local time: 15:58
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
thank you so much - and I've just spoken to my local linguistic consultant (my landlady) who confitms this!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Kimberly Wastler: That's right! Full blast is perfect - even if I'd say "I turned the heat on full blast" :)) - "I turned the heat up full blast" would work if the heat was already on (you've got to go up from somewhere-here it was off, so "on" is more "logical")
6 mins
  -> Great! Thank you for the hint: I was thinking about "turn up" as a composite verb :)
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