Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: vetrina in allestimento

Dear All,
Can some kind soul kindly remind this dithering fossil what the English
'stock' phrase for "vetrina in allestimento" is please. I know what it
means, obviously, but cannot for the life of me remember the standard sign
seen in shop windows in the UK.
Confident in illuminated replies,
I remain, as always, ecc., etc.,
Bambi
dtb

 seen in shop windows in the UK.
"Working in progress" ?...
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Er Roscio.

 "Working in progress" ?...
Thank you Roscio,
Along these lines to be sure so therefore close, but not, I know, quite
'it'.
I remain as always, etc., ecc.,
Bambi
dtb

seen in shop windows in the UK.
"allestimento delle vetrine" --> "window dressing" (or
window-dressing)
"allestimento di negozi" --> "shop-fitting"
Che sia semplicemente "window dressing"? O qualcosa di simile, tipo
"on dressing" (quest'ultimo inventato di sana pianta)?
Sebastiano
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 "on dressing" (quest'ultimo inventato di sana pianta)?
No, Seba.
L'allestimento di una vetrina non è
la stessa cosa di "vetrina in allestimento".
"Vetrina in allestimento" è un'espressione
"di servizio", come dire "stiamo lavorando per voi",
o "lavori in corso". Ed è una frase idiomatica che
si adatta solo a vetrine in corso di "composizione".
--
Er Roscio.

 dtb
Eeehh? Qualcuno un po' più ferrato, mi tradurrebbe quanto scritto sopra?
Ciao, FB

Eeehh? Qualcuno un po' più ferrato, mi tradurrebbe quanto scritto sopra?
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Grazie, Roscio.
Di sicuro una cosa del genere e quindi ci siamo vicini ma non, lo so,
proprio "quello".
Rimango come sempre, ecc. ecc.
Bambi
de-tribalised Brit
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-- 
Isa
Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching
http://web.tiscali.it/alfabeto_auschwitz/index.htm

si adatta solo a vetrine in corso di "composizione".
Grazie mille per la precisazione.
Sebastiano
-- 
Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle,
with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes-
gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun.

 Isa
Mi pareva...
Grazie.
Ciao, FB

>seen in shop windows in the UK.
A cry which was answered by several helpful souls.
"The phrase" - and I am convinced "one" exists, eluded me and time was such
that with lions at the door one creatively improvised. I appreciate that
under the circumstances "creative" might be considered as being a tadette
optimistic, but let us not dwell.
'Vetrina in allestimento' for the time being has become 'Window being
re-dressed'.
My thanks as always to all (including official interpreters)


My thanks as always to all (including official interpreters)
No cheque in the mail this morning, though. Is the postman to blame?


 No cheque in the mail this morning, though. Is the postman to blame?
Dearest official interpreter,
Have we not been following the news, YRH? Here in the South, on the Adriatic
beach-front no less, in the early part of April, we're having nothing short
of snowstorms.
The postman (actually a lady, but let us not nit-pick) has not been seen on
her trusty moped for some 3 days now. I dare say if she has chosen to forego
her route, other, lesser mortals will have done likewise. " Neither rain,
sleet, nor snow" seems to be not valid around these parts.
Have yee faith, majesty. The cheque *is* in the mail
I remain,
Bambi
dtb

 seen in shop windows in the UK.
When you try hard to remember something, they say you should forget all 
about it and it will come to you in your sleep.
For three days now -- or is it four? -- I have slept ten hours a night 
and it almost worked. My subconscious regurgitated the picture of the 
display in a big window of Selfridges on Oxford Street being redone, a 
chubby young man assisted by a slender lady dressing a mannequin in the 
latest fashion of beach wear, imitations of sand and palm trees as a 
back drop. Another night, another picture: a new christmas decoration 
left half finished over night but, alas, no sign to inform the 
window-shopper that the oeuvre is still in progress.
Believe me, I tried, but now I give up. I cannot continue to sleep that 
long every night.
-- 
Xakero

Have yee faith, majesty. The cheque *is* in the mail.
Yeah... right.
Hopefully Yours,


 Oh. That would be a "mailperson", then?
LOL
I was thinking about "postwoman".
-- 
Ciao,
Anna

> I was thinking about "postwoman".
Si dice 'postal carrier'.