Do you know what “ses cumenti sa factory de Sant'Anna” means? It is an expression in Sardinian, typical of the Cagliari area, whose literal meaning is: “You are like the construction of Sant'Anna”.

When is it used? When we refer to someone who is very slow to do something, something interminable, something that never ends.

The origins of the expression go back to the history of the construction of the church of Sant'Anna, a beautiful baroque style church in Cagliari, in the Stampace district. It took 166 years. The construction site began in 1785 and ended in 1951, an eternity.

Precisely for this reason the expression “ses cumenti sa factory de Sant'Anna” becomes a metaphor for something interminable, to underline the infinite lapse of time it took to complete the work in the historic center of Cagliari.

Born as a way of saying Cagliari, it has crossed the barriers of the city and is also used in the Campidano in general. A similar saying is also used in Rome referring to the construction of Santa Giustina.

This is Gianni Zanata's Sardinian column: every week anecdotes, curiosities, origins of Sardinian expressions.

(Unioneonline)

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