"a bocca asciutta" meaning in Italian

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  "etymology_text": "Literally, “at dry mouth”.",
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  "lang_code": "it",
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          "english": "He knew that he was starving the other two, but he could not help it; he even felt that he had a right to do it.\n(literally, “He knew well that, in this way, he left them both starving, but he could not help it; he even felt entitled to act in that way.”)",
          "ref": "2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori",
          "text": "Sapeva bene che così le lasciava tutt'e due a bocca asciutta, ma non poteva farne a meno; si sentiva perfino in diritto di agire a quel modo.",
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        "hungry, starving, without food"
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          "food",
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        {
          "word": "affamato"
        },
        {
          "word": "digiuno"
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        {
          "english": "Merciless one, am I really to be left disillusioned, just because you don't keep your word?\n(literally, “Is it true that I remain, merciless, with a dry mouth, just because you make of your words mud?”)",
          "ref": "17ᵗʰ century, Jacopo Salviati, Lamento della Sandra innamorata di Fello [Lamentation of Sandra in love with Fello], published 1856, page 153, collected in Rime burlesche di eccellenti autori by Pietro Fanfani",
          "text": "Ed è ver ch'io rimango,Spietato, a bocca asciutta,Solo perché tu faiDi tue parole fango?",
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        "(figurative, by extension) disillusioned"
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        {
          "word": "deluso"
        },
        {
          "word": "a mani vuote"
        }
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        "broadly",
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/a‿bˈbok.ka aʃˈʃut.ta/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "a bocca asciutta"
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          "english": "He knew that he was starving the other two, but he could not help it; he even felt that he had a right to do it.\n(literally, “He knew well that, in this way, he left them both starving, but he could not help it; he even felt entitled to act in that way.”)",
          "ref": "2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori",
          "text": "Sapeva bene che così le lasciava tutt'e due a bocca asciutta, ma non poteva farne a meno; si sentiva perfino in diritto di agire a quel modo.",
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        "hungry, starving, without food"
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          "word": "affamato"
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          "ref": "17ᵗʰ century, Jacopo Salviati, Lamento della Sandra innamorata di Fello [Lamentation of Sandra in love with Fello], published 1856, page 153, collected in Rime burlesche di eccellenti autori by Pietro Fanfani",
          "text": "Ed è ver ch'io rimango,Spietato, a bocca asciutta,Solo perché tu faiDi tue parole fango?",
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