Usage examples of "bere come una spugna" in Italian with translation to English

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Una spugna assorbe l'acqua. A sponge absorbs water.
Io lavoro come una schiava! I work like a slave!
Un pasto senza vino è come una giornata senza sole. A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine.
Devi essere cieca come una talpa se non sei riuscita a vederla. You must be blind as a bat if you couldn't see it.
Il tempo vola come una freccia; alle drosofile piace una banana. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
La Terra è come una palla con dentro un grande magnete. The Earth is like a ball with a large magnet inside.
Era immobile come una statua. He was as still as a statue.
Tatoeba: dove nulla rovina una notte passionale di creazione di frasi come una virgola posizionata male o, ancora peggio, un errore di battitura dovuto a distrazione. Tatoeba: Where nothing ruins a passionate night of sentence-making like a poorly placed comma or, even worse, a careless typo.
La Terra è come una palla con dentro una grande calamita. The earth is like a ball with a big magnet in it.
Lavoro come una schiava! I work like a slave!
Devi essere cieco come una talpa se non sei riuscito a vederlo. You must be blind as a bat if you couldn't see it.
Non è più bella come una volta. She's losing her looks.
Non considero la sua scelta di musica come una scelta felice. I do not consider her choice of music a happy one.
Non mi piace essere trattata come una bambina. I don't like being treated like a child.
Mi sento come una balena bianca! I feel like a beluga whale!
Senza occhiali è cieco come una talpa. Without his glasses, he is as blind as a bat.
Nonostante fossi tornato tardi dalla festa la scorsa notte, ero fresco come una rosa stamattina. Although I came back late from the party last night, I was as fresh as a daisy in the morning.
L'Italia è l'unico paese che considera la guerra come una partita di calcio e una partita di calcio come se fosse una guerra. Italy is the only country that regards war as a soccer game, and a soccer game as it is a war.
Non è più bello come una volta. He's losing his looks.
Lui senza occhiali è cieco come una talpa. Without his glasses, he is as blind as a bat.
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