TUTTO IN VACCA

/ˈtutto in ˈvakka/

本来还有可能顺利收场的局面,突然拐向错误方向,而且越走越快。

TUTTO IN VACCA

看起来是什么

Un destino sorprendentemente rural.

The literal image is absurd on purpose: everything has somehow ended up “in the cow”.

真正的意思

本来还有可能顺利收场的局面,突然拐向错误方向,而且越走越快。

A negotiation, a dinner, a holiday or a romantic pursuit can all end this way.

Everything was going well. You only had to keep behaving like a normal person. Then you send a four-minute-and-twenty-seven-second voice message explaining how you really feel.

Tutto in vacca.

责任上的微妙区别

In Italian a situation can andare in vacca, as if it simply happened. Or someone can mandare tutto in vacca: then responsibility has a name.

When we tell our own story, things tend to “go” wrong. When others tell it, we are usually the ones who “sent” them there.

理解它的关键

For something to go in vacca, there first has to be something worth saving.

If it was a disaster from the beginning, it did not go in vacca: it was already there.

One sentence too many. The wrong joke. An unsolicited confession. Afterwards there is only one thought: “There. That was when I should have kept quiet.”

一词接一词。

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