"calcare la mano" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [Italian]

Forms: calcàre la mano [canonical], càlco la mano [first-person, present, singular], calcài la mano [first-person, historic, past, singular], calcàto la mano [participle, past], avére [auxiliary]
Etymology: Literally, “to press down the hand”. Etymology templates: {{m-g|to press down the hand}} “to press down the hand”, {{lit|to press down the hand}} Literally, “to press down the hand” Head templates: {{it-verb|a/à}} calcàre la mano (first-person singular present càlco la mano, first-person singular past historic calcài la mano, past participle calcàto la mano, auxiliary avére)
  1. to overdo it; to exaggerate; to double down Tags: intransitive Synonyms: esagerare
    Sense id: en-calcare_la_mano-it-verb-lkvPKmSL
  2. to punish with excessive rigor; to be heavy-handed Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-calcare_la_mano-it-verb-ro6CnsSN Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header, Italian links with redundant wikilinks Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 20 80 Disambiguation of Italian links with redundant wikilinks: 14 86

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          "ref": "2020 November 3, “Trump: \"L'estensione dei voti postali è fisicamente pericolosa\". E Twitter censura il presidente [Trump: \"The extension of the votes by mail is physically dangerous\". And Twitter censors the President]”, in la Repubblica",
          "text": "Ma il social network ha censurato come \"controverso\" e \"fuorviante\" nelle elezioni quel post nel quale Trump aveva ulteriormente calcato òla mano: \"La decisione della corte suprema consentirà un imbroglio sfrenato e incontrollato e minerà l'intero sistema delle leggi\", ha scritto sul suo account ufficiale.",
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          "ref": "2020 November 3, “Trump: \"L'estensione dei voti postali è fisicamente pericolosa\". E Twitter censura il presidente [Trump: \"The extension of the votes by mail is physically dangerous\". And Twitter censors the President]”, in la Repubblica",
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