resa dei conti
Italian
Etymology
Literally, “rendering of accounts”.
Noun
resa dei conti f (plural rese dei conti)
- (literal, business) rendering of accounts
- (figurative, by extension) day of reckoning; reckoning
- 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 9, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
- Nessuno era in grado di dire se e quando per le altre tre grandi banche di investimenti di Wall Street – Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley e, soprattutto, Lehman Brothers, tutte sottoposte a una fuga allarmante di capitali – sarebbe arrivata un'analoga resa dei conti.
- No one could say if or when Wall Street's three remaining major investment banks—Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and especially Lehman Brothers, all of which were hemorrhaging capital at alarming rates—would face a similar reckoning.
- (literally, “No one could say if and when for Wall Street's other big three investment banks – Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and above all, Lehman Brothers, all subjected to an alarming capital flight – a similar reckoning would come.”)
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