Cool Italian - Play up/Play down

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Italians are not known for understatement. They tend to describe everything as either unbelievably good or disastrously bad.

(* = familiar, ** = very familiar, *** = vulgar, R = plain rude, Lit. = Literally)

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Argument	Class	Drinking	Family

Food	Friends	Going out	Health

Interjections	Money	Moods	Music

Play up/Play down	Politics	Professions	Pulling

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