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Essere una zuppa inglese
to be a hodgepodge
Literal Translation
"To be an English soup (trifle)"
What it means
To be a messy mixture / a hodgepodge
Example in context
"Quel film è una zuppa inglese di generi — non si capisce cosa vuol essere."
"That film is a hodgepodge of genres — you cannot understand what it wants to be."
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