/ˈfare di ˈtutta ˈlɛrba un ˈfaʃʃo/ lit. ‘to make one bundle out of all the grass’
Italian idiom, everyday. To compare or mix up two things that don’t belong together.
Draft Not yet checked by a native Italian speaker.
How do people use Fare di tutta l’erba un fascio
?
Everyday, and most often a warning in the negative: “non facciamo di tutta l’erba un fascio” (let’s not lump them all together). People say it when a whole group gets blamed for what a few did. It works with any person: “stai facendo di tutta l’erba un fascio”.
Also said fare di ogni erba un fascio
Fare di tutta l’erba un fascio
in real sentences
-
Non fare di ogni erba un fascio.
Don’t lump everything together.
Tatoeba, sentence by Guybrush88, CC BY 2.0 FR
-
Io non farei di tutta l’erba un fascio.
I wouldn’t lump everything together.
Tatoeba, sentence by Guybrush88, CC BY 2.0 FR
Where does Fare di tutta l’erba un fascio
come from?
Italian Wiktionary lists “fare di ogni erba un fascio” under “erba”. The picture is mowing a field and tying everything into one bundle, the good grass with the weeds, without sorting. No date or attested first use is recorded.
Mistakes learners make with Fare di tutta l’erba un fascio
Changing “fascio” to “mazzo” because a bunch of grass sounds like a bouquet. The idiom fixes on “fascio”, a tied bundle like a sheaf.
Other Italian idioms like Fare di tutta l’erba un fascio
Spot a mistake in Fare di tutta l’erba un fascio
?
Send a correction, or a sentence you’d actually say with it. Everything is read before anything on this page changes.