mettere in conto

Italian

Etymology

Literally, to put in account/calculation.

Verb

méttere in conto (first-person singular present métto in conto, first-person singular past historic mìsi in conto, past participle mésso in conto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, idiomatic) to take into account
    Synonyms: tenere presente, fare il punto
    • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 9, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
      Quello che non avevo messo in conto era lo scoppio di una grave crisi finanziaria.
      What I hadn't counted on was a major financial crisis.
      (literally, “What I did not take into account was the outbreak of a grave financial crisis.”)
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