English-Italian translations for pluck

coraggioDobbiamo avere il coraggio di dirlo a questo paese vicino nostro amico. We must pluck up the courage to tell this friendly neighbouring country as much. Se vuole davvero proteggere gli stock ittici, il Parlamento deve farsi coraggio ed essere fermo nei suoi propositi. Parliament needs to pluck up courage and stand firm if it is serious about protecting fish stocks. Come sappiamo invece, si è dovuto attendere fino al settembre 2000 perché il Consiglio si facesse coraggio, finalmente. As we know, it actually took until the end of September 2000 before the Council plucked up the necessary courage.
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To pull something sharply; to pull something out
To take or remove quickly from a particular place or situation
To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc
To remove feathers from a bird
To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
To play a string instrument pizzicato
To pull or twitch sharply
To be rejected after failing an examination for a degree
Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing. see "plucking" on Wikipedia--
An instance of plucking
The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals
Cheap wine

She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled
Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it
The horny highwayman plucked his victims to their underwear, or attractive ones all the way
Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break
to pluck at somebodys sleeve
Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck
He didnt get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck

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