Is there someone in your life with whom you had an instant connection? Perhaps that person is your spouse, or maybe he or she is a childhood friend who, through thick and thin, has stuck by your side all these years. In Italian, there is a very fitting idiom to describe this kind of relationship: andare d’amore e d’accordo.
andare d’amore e d’accordo
to get along very well
Literally, it translates as something along the lines of “to go of love and in agreement” which, admittedly, doesn’t make a whole lot of sense in English, but in Italian, it is a very common idiom and is worth learning if you want to sound like a native when you speak!
Here are a few additional translations besides to get along very well:
- to get on like a house on fire
- to get along famously
- to get along swimmingly
Dopo anni di litigi, finalmente i miei fratelli vanno d’amore e d’accordo.
After years of squabbling, my brothers finally get along well.
You may see andare (to go) replaced by the verb filare, which can be translated in many ways including to spin, to form a string, to scram, or to make sense.
Stanno insieme da molti anni e filano ancora d’amore e d’accordo.
They have been together for many years and still get along famously.
D’Amore e D’Accordo is also the name of an Italian television programme that aired on Real Time from July 5th to July 30th 2021. Hosted by Katia Follesa, it was a reboot of the classic Mediaset show Tra moglie e marito.
Heather Broster is a graduate with honours in linguistics from the University of Western Ontario. She is an aspiring polyglot, proficient in English and Italian, as well as Japanese, Welsh, and French to varying degrees of fluency. Originally from Toronto, Heather has resided in various countries, notably Italy for a period of six years. Her primary focus lies in the fields of language acquisition, education, and bilingual instruction.
