English-Italian translation for "to pluck"

to pluck [plucked|plucked] {vb} (also: to take, to capture, to nab, to take advantage of)

And I plucked the hair off the fly's head.

This is not an idea we have plucked out of the air.

I maintain that this view has just been plucked out of thin air.

This figure is plucked out of the air but the exceptions are not.

So what I decided to do is to pluck fine hair out of my face.

What I did, I plucked the tag out and put it underneath the microscope.

The leaves of the tea, plucked from the bushes; you know what the action is?

We must pluck up the courage to tell this friendly neighbouring country as much.

but seemed scraped, bleached, and, with their plucked eyebrows, scarily masklike;

I want to see that we do what is best for East Timor, not just pluck figures out of the air.

Parliament needs to pluck up courage and stand firm if it is serious about protecting fish stocks.

As we know, it actually took until the end of September 2000 before the Council plucked up the necessary courage.

Instead of closing ranks, you would have done better to pluck up courage and at last accept your political responsibility in this dispute.

It has taken more than 100 years for us to pluck up the courage here and give the railways another chance.

If I do not respond, it is not because she has failed to pluck my heartstrings - she did that a very long time ago - but simply because of the shortage of time.

That is a precautionary measure and at the same time it is a realistic measure, because the figures that are used here have not simply been plucked out of the air.

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell was not a religious man, but he said, "It's in our hearts that the evil lies, and it's from our hearts that it must be plucked out."

I ask the women from the other groups, though, to pluck up the courage to introduce these issues into the Plenary rather than having their treatment obstructed in the Bureau.

A vast gravy train sucking billions of euros from plucked chickens and terrified consumers, to swell the coffers of the multinational drug companies.

We could certainly understand that if they were simply plucked out of the air and there was no political commitment or operational machinery to ensure that they are achieved.