"non sapere che pesci pigliare" meaning in All languages combined

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      "args": {
        "1": "to not know which fish to take"
      },
      "expansion": "“to not know which fish to take”",
      "name": "m-g"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to not know which fish to take"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “to not know which fish to take”",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “to not know which fish to take”.",
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      "expansion": "non sapere che pesci pigliare",
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  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "english": "... over the phone, they described a chaotic scene, with the Chinese and other BRICS leaders dug in on their position... Danish and UN organizers feeling overwhelmed, and environmental groups in attendance despairing over what increasingly looked like a dumpster fire.",
          "ref": "2020, Barack Obama, chapter 21, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:",
          "text": "... al telefono ci avevano descritto un gran caos, con i cinesi e gli altri leader dei BRICS che non si schiodavano dalle loro posizioni... i danesi e gli organizzatori dell'ONU che non sapevano più che pesci pigliare e i gruppi ambientalisti in attesa, disperati di fronte a quello che assomigliava ogni istante di più a un completo sfacelo.",
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        "to be unable to find possible inroads or solutions to a problem; to be at a loss for what to do"
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          "problem",
          "problem"
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        [
          "at a loss",
          "at a loss"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to be unable to find possible inroads or solutions to a problem; to be at a loss for what to do"
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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    }
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  "word": "non sapere che pesci pigliare"
}

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        "1": "to not know which fish to take"
      },
      "expansion": "“to not know which fish to take”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to not know which fish to take"
      },
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “to not know which fish to take”.",
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "non sapere che pesci pigliare",
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "english": "... over the phone, they described a chaotic scene, with the Chinese and other BRICS leaders dug in on their position... Danish and UN organizers feeling overwhelmed, and environmental groups in attendance despairing over what increasingly looked like a dumpster fire.",
          "ref": "2020, Barack Obama, chapter 21, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:",
          "text": "... al telefono ci avevano descritto un gran caos, con i cinesi e gli altri leader dei BRICS che non si schiodavano dalle loro posizioni... i danesi e gli organizzatori dell'ONU che non sapevano più che pesci pigliare e i gruppi ambientalisti in attesa, disperati di fronte a quello che assomigliava ogni istante di più a un completo sfacelo.",
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  "word": "non sapere che pesci pigliare"
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