"punto fermo" meaning in Italian

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      "expansion": "Literally, “fixed point”",
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  "etymology_text": "Literally, “fixed point”.",
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    {
      "form": "punti fermi",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "english": "It was a familiar trick, I thought to myself, the kind of rhetorical sleight of hand that had become a staple of conservative pundits everywhere, whatever the issue: taking language once used by the disadvantaged to highlight a societal ill and turning it on its ear.\n(literally, “It was an old trick, I told myself, the type of rhetorical conjuring trick that had by now become a constant of conservative pundits, regardless of the topic in question: taking language once used by the have-nots to describe some ill in society and reversing it completely.”)",
          "ref": "2020, Barack Obama, chapter 12, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri",
          "text": "Era un vecchio trucco, mi dissi, il genere di gioco di prestigio retorico ormai divenuto ovunque un punto fermo degli opinionisti conservatori, a prescindere dal tema in questione: prendere il linguaggio un tempo utilizzato dai diseredati per descrivere un qualche male della società e ribaltarlo completamente.",
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        "fixed or ever-present factor; constant"
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        "period, full stop"
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  ],
  "word": "punto fermo"
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          "english": "It was a familiar trick, I thought to myself, the kind of rhetorical sleight of hand that had become a staple of conservative pundits everywhere, whatever the issue: taking language once used by the disadvantaged to highlight a societal ill and turning it on its ear.\n(literally, “It was an old trick, I told myself, the type of rhetorical conjuring trick that had by now become a constant of conservative pundits, regardless of the topic in question: taking language once used by the have-nots to describe some ill in society and reversing it completely.”)",
          "ref": "2020, Barack Obama, chapter 12, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri",
          "text": "Era un vecchio trucco, mi dissi, il genere di gioco di prestigio retorico ormai divenuto ovunque un punto fermo degli opinionisti conservatori, a prescindere dal tema in questione: prendere il linguaggio un tempo utilizzato dai diseredati per descrivere un qualche male della società e ribaltarlo completamente.",
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