Anyone know what the "Bras d'honneur" is ?

[steve2470]

If you do, you get mega-points. I had no idea until I googled "italian gesture fuck you"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras_d%27honneur

A bras d'honneur (French pronunciation: ​[bʁa dɔˈnœʁ] "arm of honor" ), Iberian slap (Spanish: corte de manga, Portuguese: manguito), or Italian salute[1] is an obscene gesture that communicates moderate to extreme contempt, and is roughly equivalent in meaning to "fuck me", "fuck you", "shove it up your ass/arse", "up yours" or "go fuck yourself", having the same meaning as giving the finger (known as le doigt d'honneur). It is most common in Romanic Europe (Italy, France, Portugal, Spain), Latin America, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Croatia, Turkey, Georgia, Québec, Ireland and in parts of Scotland. To make the gesture, an arm is bent in an L-shape, with the fist pointing upwards; the other hand then grips the biceps of the bent arm as it is emphatically raised to a vertical position.

[sandensea]

1. Per essempio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=324&v=C-6ExvULsC0&feature=emb_title

[steve2470]

2. good example ! :) nt

[sandensea]

3. When I first saw that movie in school, that's the one scene everyone remembered

It's from A Time for Revenge - a 1981 Argentine thriller. The actor, Federico Luppi, was very liberal; he died three years ago.

[Laelth]

4. I was familiar with the gesture.

I did not know its name. Thank you.

-Laelth