Typical Italian proverb, used to describe an instinctive reaction that turns a disadvantage into a favorable action.
It derives from Trap Hole, a Yu-gi-oh card often used to start a counterattack
A:"Che goal, sono riusciti a pareggiare proprio all'ultimo!"
B:"lo hai detto, questo è il classico Buco trappola nei calzettoni"
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A:"What a goal, they managed to equalize at the very last second!"
B:"Of course, this Is the classic Trap Hole into the socks"
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)