Italian idioms and sayings

1. "Chi dorme non piglia pesci" - "He who sleeps doesn't catch any fish" (meaning: you have to be active and alert to achieve success)

2. "Meglio tardi che mai" - "Better late than never"

3. "Ogni morte di Papa" - "Once in a blue moon" (meaning: very rarely)

4. "Non tutte le ciambelle riescono col buco" - "Not all donuts come out with a hole" (meaning: not everything goes as planned)

5. "Avere le mani bucate" - "To have holes in your hands" (meaning: to be bad at managing money)

6. "Meglio un giorno da leone che cento da pecora" - "Better one day as a lion than a hundred as a sheep" (meaning: it's better to have one great day than many mediocre ones)

7. "Chi fa da sé fa per tre" - "He who does things by himself does the work of three" (meaning: self-reliance is important)

8. "Dove c'è fumo, c'è fuoco" - "Where there's smoke, there's fire" (meaning: there's usually some truth to rumors or suspicions)

9. "L'appetito vien mangiando" - "Appetite comes with eating" (meaning: the more you do something, the more you want to do it)

10. "Chi troppo vuole nulla stringe" - "He who wants too much ends up with nothing"

Above is Italian idioms and sayings.