Collection of Romanesque idioms, Roman proverbs and sayings in Roman dialect, funny expressions relating to the typical dialectal form common among the inhabitants of Rome.
Roman idioms
- E 'mejo avecce a hundred ribbed dogs, which na plug ar ass.
- Approach for the burning bread that hunger arises.
- Honor and health are not in the apothecary.
- I die and then I dry up God de famme is reborn in my Rome.
- I know the money like sand, blown and voleno.
- All porteno roads in Rome.
- Er core de le donne is made in limoncello, a slice of this and that.
- Nanny and mmamma nun campeno always.
- Mejo dolor de bborsa che ddolor dde core.
- France or Spain, it is enough that if magna.
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- Mejo svejasse cor culo gelato that co ’’ n gelato ar culo.
- On them tastes nun ce if it spits.
- Happy heart, wind tongue.
- This is left with a shoe and a tie.
- We Romans had the aria der menefrego granted by Christ.
- Yes, you are not a king, you do not make the law nova and lassa er monno as if you find it.
- The bbirboni with the bbirboni get along well.
- Nu ’spoja’ ‘n artare pe’ vestinne an antro.
- The donkey quanno raja, there appitito; the man, when he turns, is in love; when the woman sings, I go husband.
- Botta fired and hare ran away no more.
- Li mejo bocconi sò der coco.
- A li muli no ji sta reto, a li matti stay away.
- Turn and turn for cucumber always goes to the greengrocer.
- Lo malo enters in keel, comes out in ounces.
- At all there is arimedio fora that death.
- Whoever works doesn't go down the drain, but who works also does it, so it's mejo nun he'll work.
- Who knows no ffinge nun knows reign.
- Love, cough and mange nun annisconneno.
- Little and gnente j’ is relative.
- A vorte pure 'and fleas have' a cough.
- Lassa loses her servant, then she arrives at the mistress.
- Young idle, old bbisognoso.
- A hundred years of tears, not a lot of debt.
- Hen that nun pecks is a sign that pecked.
- The relatives of the pope soon became cardinals.
- In his youth er mess, in old age Christ and wine.
- Quann’e day de pijallo 'nculo er wind lifts your shirt.
- All galantommini but I miss the stuff.
- And women know mejo in bed that ar kilo.
- Who vva ppe 'cares' aresta screwed.
- Bad nun ago, fear nun avé.
- He pees on the bed and says he has sweated.
- It is good and forgetful, it hurts and dangles.
- Quanno er diavolo lecca te ssegno vvo ’soul.
- There are two types of woman: the whores and the pure. The hooves, I know hooves; the pure, pure.
- Quann’s Swiss is not a pity.
- Whoever bends too far does see an ass.
- Quanno big mouth and er ass reindeer, in the ass to the medicines and who came.
- Give up if you see, give up faith.
- Love is like an egg: it is good when it is fresh.
- We pray to the Lord that you are summer and winter you are winter.
- You're fucking straight, it's raining hard.
- Bruno bbruno, just for one.
- Who is beautiful if he sees, who is good if he knows.
- Who sparte has mejo part.
- In Anagni you do not bring nun magni.
- Moje that if she turns to whistle, it is only risk for her husband.
- Mejo cheeky, that pansa moscia.
- A l'omo de poco faje hinted er fire.
- At the der fig tree nun there is a little perch.
- It is short mejo that sticks that long that rinses.
- Water passed nun grinds more.
- Who works is the hump, who does not work is the stuff.
- A la fija de la vorpe nun je se 'nsegna' a lair.
- If you work for camp, nun if you live for work.
- Sacco voto nun is straight.
Roman sayings
- It is cleaner this mange.
- You get hard at pissed off: you piss you piss.
- In sta vale de lacrime, someone liked it well.
- Who is there, who is not.
- Quanno Te Swabian with four balls, the enemy is behind him.
- Who shit on the snow then if it turns out.
- The woman is like the chestnut: bella de fora and I drag the magagna.
- It has to do with it.
- If Rome were in port Naples would be in the vegetable garden.
- Whoever plays a lot in ruvina goes de botto.
- Fidasse is bbene, nun fidasse is mmejo.
- Mejo dolor de bborsa che dolor de core.
- Trust the vorpe and the badger, but you don't trust the woman to give a low ass.
- Whoever makes them count without the innkeeper, will do them again.
- With affection and feeling, the less I see you and mejo I feel.
- To whom it is nun's turn.
- What nun throttles' fat.
- To whom jè gnaws er ass jè stinks er finger de shit.
- In Rome, for luck, there are three d's, women, money and the devil.
- The hour of today, nun is that of tomorrow.
- In Rome, God is not triune, but money.
- After forty nun if he whistles and nun if he sings.
- Magna well, strong shit and no fear of death.
- The man, pe ’they homo, a 'dda stinks.
- If Rome were in port Naples would be in the vegetable garden.
- The woman is like the chestnut: bella de fora and I drag the magagna.
- Dead 'n pope makes a cave.
- For 'you know' a good piece, I want a good merchant.
- Go to the square and pija consijo, go home and do as you please.
- Belly full, nun thinks about belly vote.
- The bad reputation that all gold der monno is worth more.
- Nun is robbing the house of thieves.
- The relatives of the Pope, soon become cardinals.
- Nun if buggera er cantaro.
- Everyone with their own flour makes us the dumplings they seem.
- Omo de vino nun vale 'n quatrino.
- You made love? Fatte will sigh.
- The eye wants its part, it punctures them.
- Fra Modesto was never Prior.
- The sins of Master Paul plagued them Master Peter.
- Pound der because it is under er ass de Pasquino.
- Friend of all and de gnisuno is one.
- Mejo cheeky, what a belly.
- Enough a woman for them to have a secret and make everyone drink and cojonalli.
- The women cried er 'n sacco.
- As far as you know, the scene, if you dig up.
- If you are holding wine, magnatela grape grains.
- Always bbene nun po 'anna', it is always bad even.
- If you see death, if you scratch.
- Sparagna, sparagna, arrives er cat and magna.
- Bad nun ago, fear nun avé.
- Make your name and go to Rubbà.
- Er monno the God adjusts, I cross the cross.
- Deaf them I know how you pain them. Who cellà keeps them.
- Er needs makes everything.
- The deaf that ariveno co er er trallarallà if they go corallallallero.
- Er dog always cuts off or tears.
- Mejo cheeky, what a belly.
- Love is not good and nothing is litigello.
- The Romans spoke badly, but thought bbene.
- A glass of Frascati is worth more than all the water of the Tiber.
- The only beautiful thing about Milan is to train to Rome.
- Forgiveness is from homo, forget it is from bbestia.
- Mejo esse ’amato che ttemuto.
- It rains or it doesn't rain for Papa Magna.
- Mejo smells like wine than holy water.
Roman proverbs
- Who has er bread, has no teeth and who has teeth nun has er bread.
- Mejo had broken carons' n ass, that er ass broken inside the carons.
- Those who have the money have never been wrong.
- You tell me 'roundabout ... and tell me er Panteon that I don't understand you.
- If instead of calf they give you er mule ... you magna be silent and fuck off.
- Forty year old woman throws it on the river with all the clothes.
- Years and wine glasses if you never hold it.
- Woman who moves her hip is' nignotta little is missing.
- It rains or it doesn't rain for pope magna.
- Inside 'a small barrel there is good wine, but' in the big one there is more.
- Happy heart, wind tongue.
- If he was mejo quanno if he was worse.
- Left and right is all soup.
- Whoever makes you more mother, or pretends or deceives you.
- The Sora Camilla, all of them won and none of them.
- Who sparte has mejo part.
- Door open for whoever brings, whoever brings does not leave.
- Those who bow too much show off their ass.
- Among dogs there is no mozzicheno.
- Who is born tuna did not die in a picture.
- It is good for the donkeys to receive the paws in paunch.
- Who leads for the first time.
- Roscia, panza moscia.
- Your shopkeeper friend makes you more expensive.
- If you feel comfortable, look back.
- Whoever lifts the old way for the nova finds bad way.
- Vedé e nun touching is' na thing to crack.
- Who magna e caga is like ‘n papa.
- Pe knows well 'a famija, first' a mother and then 'a fija.
- The man without the pansa is like er celo without and stars.
- He who praises you in the face says badly behind his shoulders.
- Omo de panza, homo de substance.
- Er monno is made with shoes, who hunts them and who puts them on.
- Too many roosters in a cantà, nun if it never gets daylight.
- Er pane de casa stove.
- You do as the ancients say that if you blow the bowls and throw them, you cool them.
- What nun throttles' fat.
- In tera de cechi, blessed are you with an eye.
- Sacco voto nun is straight.
- In times of famine, every hole is a gallery.
- It will not spit in the sky that you fall back into your mouth.
- In de guera times, every hole is in the trench.
- Too many roosters in a cantà, nun if it never gets daylight.
- Mbè? Mbè make sheep, and the wolf if magna.
- They caught you in the mouth 'n mouth.
- Trust the rich impoverished and nun you will trust the poor enriched.
- Beauty doesn't find closed doors.
- Rome was made a little peevish.
- Plan blackbird that the fraction is long.
- Quanno says badly mozzicheno ‘and sheep.
- Those who raise a fijo breed them mad, those who raise a pig breed them fat.
- 'Where there is no exchange, remission is uncertain.
- Who ppiù screams, cià ppiù reason.
- 'Na fracica apple spoils one hundred bbones.
- If my grandfather took the wheels, it was a wheelbarrow.
- Mejo che la pansa mia crepi che la bbontà de Ddio if you waste.
- If my grandfather took the wheels, it was a tramway.
- Who seeks ajuto, ar più finds consijio.
- If my grandfather had five balls, he was a pinball.
- The hand that arigala is ar de above the one it receives.
- Those who are born stupid are stupid to die for. "
- Whoever kisses a mouth sucks one.
- Who said woman said damage.
- Daje and daje also pigeons if they make quaie.
- Who said homo said malanno.
