dalla sera alla mattina
Italian
Etymology
Literally, “from the evening to the morning”.
Adverb
dalla sera alla mattina
- (also figuratively) overnight
- Synonym: dall'oggi al domani
- 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 24, in Chicca Galli; Paolo Lucca; Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
- Gates mi informò che aveva già chiesto al suo staff di cominciare a lavorare senza pubblicità sulla questione... per la preoccupazione molto concreta che prima o poi i tribunali federali trovassero incostituzionale il DADT e obbligassero l'esercito a cambiare dalla sera alla mattina.
- Gates said that he'd already asked his staff to quietly begin internal planning on the issue... out of a practical concern that federal courts might ultimately find DADT unconstitutional and force a change on the military overnight.
- (literally, “Gates informed me that he had already asked his staff to quietly begin working on the issue... out of the very concrete worry that sooner or later federal courts would find DADT unconstitutional and would obligate the military to change overnight.”)