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B2🐺 Animals

Essere un calabrone

To be aggressive and irritating

Literal Translation

"To be a hornet"

What it means

To be aggressive and irritating

Example in context

"Non provocarlo, è un calabrone quando si arrabbia."

"Don't provoke him — he's a hornet when he gets angry."

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