a pieni polmoni

Italian

Etymology

Literally, “at full lungs”. Compare French à pleins poumons.

Prepositional phrase

a pieni polmoni

  1. drawing in as much breath as possible; breathing deeply
    • 2013, chapter 1, in F. Scott Fitzgerald, translated by Ferruccio Russo, Il Grande Gatsby [The Great Gatsby], Edizioni Scientifiche e Artistiche, page 38:
      C'era tanto da studiare e potevo respirare a pieni polmoni un'aria fresca, giovane e salutare.
      There was so much to read for one thing and so much fine health to be pulled down out of the young breath-giving air.
      (literally, “There was much to study, and I could breathe a young, healthy, fresh air deeply.”)
  2. at the top of one's lungs
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