antifascista per la pelle

English translation: dyed-in-the-wool antifascist

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Italian term or phrase:antifascista per la pelle
English translation:dyed-in-the-wool antifascist
Entered by: Barbara Cochran, MFA

14:01 Apr 14, 2014
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings / Autobiography
Italian term or phrase: antifascista per la pelle
Contesto:

Mi sembrava ascoltare un discorso fascista. Ma Fenoaltea era rimasto antifascista per la pelle.

Fenoaltea is the one who has been speaking.

Grazie,

Barbara
Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 13:10
dyed in the wool antifascist
Explanation:
There are many ways of translating this
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Marco Solinas
Local time: 10:10
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Summary of answers provided
3 +7dyed in the wool antifascist
Marco Solinas
5an antifascists through and through /to the core /born and bred /
James (Jim) Davis
4instinctively anti-fascist
Isabelle Johnson


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
instinctively anti-fascist


Explanation:
What's Really Happening in Venezuela? » CounterPunch ...
www.counterpunch.org/2014/02/.../whats-really-happening-in-...
Feb 18, 2014 - ... Chávez bequeathed him, a base that is instinctively anti-fascist and believes in socialism? Maduro has correctly named his enemy: fascism.
Philosophy and German Literature, 1700-1990
books.google.it/books?isbn=0521660521
Saul - 2010 - ‎German literature
... they were apparently inactive politically, because they were involved solely with the home and the family, were somehow considered instinctively anti-fascist.
Newspapermen: Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil Harmsworth King and the ...
books.google.it/books?isbn=1446485633
Ruth Dudley Edwards - 2013 - ‎Biography & Autobiography
What was more, unlike King, Cudlipp believed that ordinary British people were instinctively anti-fascist and, like him, wanted to fight. In April 1940, Cudlipp had ...

Isabelle Johnson
Italy
Local time: 19:10
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +7
dyed in the wool antifascist


Explanation:
There are many ways of translating this

Marco Solinas
Local time: 10:10
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 14

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  writeaway: absolutely. any number of ways. don't understand the problem really
13 mins

agree  PJV10
36 mins

agree  Lirka: great, but I'd hyphenate it dyed-in-the-wool
1 hr

agree  mlreid: that is what came to mind before even seeing this post.
1 hr

agree  Peter Cox
1 day 2 hrs

agree  James (Jim) Davis
1 day 10 hrs

agree  Jim Tucker (X): dyed-in-the-wool
1 day 18 hrs
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1 day 10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
an antifascists through and through /to the core /born and bred /


Explanation:
or an antifascist as diehard as the come.
Or in the land of Don Camillo "as red as they come" :-)

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Note added at 1 day10 hrs (2014-04-16 00:42:02 GMT)
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It is late, that should read "an antifascist" singular!

James (Jim) Davis
Seychelles
Local time: 21:10
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 30
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