Italian Idiom: Fa un freddo cane! (It’s freezing cold!)
Now that we’re well into the depths of winter (inverno), we thought we’d share an idiomatic phrase that is widely used in spoken Italian on freezing cold days. Fa un freddo cane! It’s freezing cold!(Literal translation: It’s dog cold! or It makes a cold dog!) It is made up of the following components: So, why …