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