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Thanks for the fishy phrases. But the caption under the lead illustration confused me since "pesca" means "peach". I looked it up, and sure enough "pesca" also means a catch of fish and is used in all kinds of phrases related to fishing. I thought I had figured this out years ago after the incident of asking the frutti vendolo for a pesce instead of a pesca. Always more to learn...
Fishing in the Italian Language
Pesca Fishing At least once a week I visit the fresh fish stores in Bodega Bay on the north California coast, to buy crab (granchio), salmon (salmone), mussels (cozze), shrimp (gamberi) or clams (vongole). But I'd never encountered some of the fish names we spotted at a local pescheria in ...
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