Typical Italian everyday water expressions with lots of different meanings, then translated into English.

1. ‘Assomigliarsi come due gocce
d’acqua’

2. “Assomigliarsi come due gocce d’acqua”
“to look like two drops of water” - We use this expression to
say that, well, you are twins, you look like each other!

3. ‘Facile come bere un bicchiere
d’acqua’

4. “Facile come bere un bicchiere d’acqua”
After completing a task without even any efforts, ‘easy as drinking a glass of
water’, is what you would usually say. To mean that, it was an easy thing.

5. ‘Lavarsi le
mani’

6. ‘Lavarsi le
mani’
‘Wash your hands’. Giving away all of your caring about a thing. Just like
Pontius Pilate did.

7. Acqua passata non macina
più

8. ‘Acqua passata non macina più’
‘Once the water is through the mill, the water won’t make the milling
machine grind anymore’
When an emotion, attitude, or habit that had a value, doesn’t matter
anymore.

9. E’ una ragazza acqua e
sapone

10. ‘E’ una ragazza acqua e
sapone’
‘She’s a water and soap girl’
Basically a girl (woman) who’s beautiful even without any
makeup.

11. ‘I panni sporchi si lavano in famiglia’

12. ‘I panni sporchi si lavano in famiglia’
‘The laundry is done within the family’
Do you hate it when you hear something about your family? And don’t you
hate it more if you hear it from someone who’s not in your family?!
Well, that’s why you ‘do the laundry with your family’ which means, clean up
the rumours as a family without letting anything go.

13. ‘Rompere il ghiaccio’

14. ‘Rompere il ghiaccio’
‘Break the ice’
Another way of saying, start a conversation or getting to know somebody.

15. ‘Perso in un
bicchiere
d’acqua’

16. ‘Perso in un
bicchiere
d’acqua’
Have you ever been lost in a glass of water?! Yeah, nobody has! But
sometimes, simple tasks may not be so simple. Saying ‘perso in un bicchiere
d’acqua’ means having difficulties finishing a simple task.

17. Tra il dire e il fare c’è di mezzo il
mare.

18. Tra il dire e il fare c’è di mezzo il
mare.
When it’s a task is hard or next to impossible we say ‘in between saying
something, and actually doing it, exists a large gap as large as a sea
which impedes it’. It actually means ‘easier said than done’.
We can say that it’s the opposite of ‘perso in un bicchiere d’acqua’

19. ‘Trovarsi in cattive
acque’

20. ‘Trovarsi in cattive
acque’
‘Finding yourself in a bad situation’ in which you think has
no way out.