Tibet. Any country can be referred to as the italy of its region, if it is crappy, rundown, was once famous and has a lot of shitty leftover culture from like a thousand years ago. But now a days its basically indian reservation.
hey look at this neato Temple, its been here for a thouand years, everybody can read and write, but they have to resort to eating bird guano to survive.
by Margaret Thatcher September 21, 2003

1)noun:
an extremely dirty person of the jewish faith who resides in exile from modern society in the cavernous mountains of northern italy.
2)an extremely unlikeable person
an extremely dirty person of the jewish faith who resides in exile from modern society in the cavernous mountains of northern italy.
2)an extremely unlikeable person
How was Italy?
It was great except we ran into a pack of northern italy cave jews while hiking. it killed the whole trip
Bummer
It was great except we ran into a pack of northern italy cave jews while hiking. it killed the whole trip
Bummer
by lukediebitch December 15, 2010

I have a best friend named Italy shes an amazing and wonderful girl she’s sweet and puts so much thought into everything she’s as unique as her name and you’ll never meet anyone like her.
I have a best friend named Italy
by Vdjsbdbbwksns November 19, 2023

salesman's term used when selling a house that needs a lot of work in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.
by Beech Bum. June 19, 2016

Friend: Yo I wanna move to Italy
Me: Might wanna wait a few years after 2020
Friend: *Gets depression*
Me: Might wanna wait a few years after 2020
Friend: *Gets depression*
by YoshiJacob May 20, 2020

A legend.
Aye she also adorable and the sweetest person ever when she’s happy.she also quite funny if you get to know her well and when she’s finally comfortable with you
Aye she also adorable and the sweetest person ever when she’s happy.she also quite funny if you get to know her well and when she’s finally comfortable with you
Italy is so pretty
by Skittles.-. December 26, 2019

This saying means that you may not be in a certain state of being, experience or end point, but you are well on your way. An alternative is "The road to rome starts in Italy" which means that you are on the brink of your journey to an experience or situation and should get started or step away if you want/don't want to end up there.
It can be used with a positive bent but is more often used as a a warning or judgment that someone is on the path to something unwanted, harmful, life altering, undoable, or disaster.
As the saying originated from a member of the Appalachian diaspora the grammatical feature of X impact Y can be applied to this saying, (for example its colder than a witches titty could also be adjusted to its hotter than a pig in a frying pan), but the geographical implication must be clear to the listener.
In this case Rome was an influential empire that impacted everywhere it touched, rose with power and fell in disgrace and was generally both a place to gain favor, fame or fortuned, but also a place to be corrupted, backstabbed or run into a malignant unhinged dictator or be sold as a slave. Regardless, once there its impossible to erase the impacts of Rome and the time to turn around is before or while in Italy.
It can be used with a positive bent but is more often used as a a warning or judgment that someone is on the path to something unwanted, harmful, life altering, undoable, or disaster.
As the saying originated from a member of the Appalachian diaspora the grammatical feature of X impact Y can be applied to this saying, (for example its colder than a witches titty could also be adjusted to its hotter than a pig in a frying pan), but the geographical implication must be clear to the listener.
In this case Rome was an influential empire that impacted everywhere it touched, rose with power and fell in disgrace and was generally both a place to gain favor, fame or fortuned, but also a place to be corrupted, backstabbed or run into a malignant unhinged dictator or be sold as a slave. Regardless, once there its impossible to erase the impacts of Rome and the time to turn around is before or while in Italy.
Friend 1: "I think you should quit drinking, you seem to have trouble with how much you drink."
Friend 2: "I'm not an alcoholic, I only drink a few times a week"
Friend 1: "The road to Rome was paved in Italy"
Student: "I feel like I should not audition for the play."
Teacher: "I'm happy to work with you after school with some other students."
Student: " Yes, but I feel like I'll never be as good as the others."
Teacher: "Go for that role. You really want it. The road to Rome starts in Italy."
Friend one: "I don't think I'm experiencing domestic violence, I should just stop complaining."
Friend two: "He called you a worthless ho who'll never amount to anything and then took your bank card and told you to stop talking to all over your friends."
Friend one: "But he doesn't hit me."
Friend two: "Girl, get out. The road to Rome is paved in Italy."
Friend 2: "I'm not an alcoholic, I only drink a few times a week"
Friend 1: "The road to Rome was paved in Italy"
Student: "I feel like I should not audition for the play."
Teacher: "I'm happy to work with you after school with some other students."
Student: " Yes, but I feel like I'll never be as good as the others."
Teacher: "Go for that role. You really want it. The road to Rome starts in Italy."
Friend one: "I don't think I'm experiencing domestic violence, I should just stop complaining."
Friend two: "He called you a worthless ho who'll never amount to anything and then took your bank card and told you to stop talking to all over your friends."
Friend one: "But he doesn't hit me."
Friend two: "Girl, get out. The road to Rome is paved in Italy."
by LilBriarRose May 18, 2025
