How to Say ‘Piss off!’ in Italian
Levati dalle palle!
LEH-vah-tee DAHL-leh PAHL-leh
[LEH-vah-tee DAHL-leh PAHL-leh]
💬 Usage Tip: levati is "remove yourself": leva "take away" + ti "yourself" stuck on the end. dalle is da + le merged.
Phrase Breakdown
Levati
[LEH-vah-tee]
get away / remove yourself
Informal command of 'levarsi', to take oneself away.
Levati di mezzo!
Get out of the way!
dalle palle!
DAHL-leh PAHL-leh
from the balls!
A vulgar way of saying 'get lost'. Both words have a double 'll': DAHL-leh PAHL-leh.
Toglimi questo problema dalle palle.
Get this problem off my back.
Words in this phrase
dalle
[DAHL-leh]
from the
'da' + 'le': from the (feminine plural).
Vengo dalle montagne.
I come from the mountains.
palle
[PAHL-leh]
Balls
Informal term for testicles, used to express frustration.
Che palle stare in fila!
What a pain to stand in line!
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