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porca miseria

interjection, phraseInformal

A Italian slang term. Browse all Italian slang.

What it means

  1. Damn it; bloody hell. The socially safe member of a large family of porca... expressions, the others of which are blasphemous and genuinely offensive.

Literally: Filthy misery.

Examples with translations

  • Porca miseria, si è rotto di nuovo.

    Damn it, it's broken again.

  • Porca miseria che freddo!

    Bloody hell it's cold!

Where it comes from

Italian swearing splits sharply between the merely vulgar and the bestemmie — blasphemies against God or the saints, which remain seriously taboo and were until recently punishable by law. porca miseria substitutes an abstract noun for the forbidden one.