parla come mangi

Italian

Alternative forms

  • parla come magni! (dialectal)

Etymology

Literally, “speak the way you eat!”.

Phrase

parla come mangi!

  1. (idiomatic, informal, humorous) used to invite someone who uses an excessively cultivated language to speak in a simpler and clearer way; call a spade a spade
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