I just heard this sentence in a movie and I didn't get the meaning, so could you help me please to understand it "He told me my shoes were dangerously Italian"
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This means the shoes were irresistibly stylish and attractive.
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This means the shoes were irresistibly stylish and attractive.
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"Dangerously" is used as an adjective in a colloquial flamboyant sense here. By that I mean that you will hear this typically from a fashionable teenager, a women in her early 20's, or a gay man. Those groups tend to take a common strong/hard word and apply it in a completely different context in order to be trendy and clever in speech. Eventually the phrase loses its cleverness and i