English-Italian translations for colossus

colossoE' un colosso dai piedi d'argilla, che poggia su fragili basi. It makes for a shaky structure, a colossus built on shaky foundations. Ai miei occhi, la cooperazione in seno all'UEM è come un colosso impacciato che fatica a tenere il passo con un' economia tanto mobile. As far as I am concerned, EMU cooperation looms ponderously large as a colossus which will have difficulty keeping afloat in the present swelling economy. Il colosso - se mi è permesso di essere così irriverente da descrivere il sistema in questo modo - cresce, ma i suoi piedi di argilla diventano sempre più deboli. If I may say so, the colossus, if one can be so irreverent as to describe the system in that way, is growing bigger, but its feet of clay are growing weaker and weaker.

A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Somebody or something very greatly admired and respected

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