fare carriera
Italian
Etymology
Literally, “to make career”. Compare French faire carrière.
Verb
fàre carriera (first-person singular present fàccio carriera, first-person singular past historic féci carriera, past participle fàtto carriera, first-person singular imperfect facévo carriera, second-person singular imperative fài carriera or fà' carriera, auxiliary avére)
- to reach the highest levels of a hierarchical order; to work one's way up
- 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 22, in Chicca Galli; Paolo Lucca; Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
- Dopotutto, aveva fatto carriera proprio battendosi contro ogni forma di normativa federale...
- After all, he'd made a career of opposing any and all forms of government regulation...
- (literally, “After all, he'd worked his way up exactly by fighting against every form of federal regulation...”)
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