Italian term
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Native in: Italian
Works in: English to Italian, Spanish to Italian
in rotellina
Thanks!
Proposed translations
Legal, Business & Design Specialist
Native in: English (Variant: UK)
Works in: Italian to English
has his wheels on the ground / screwed on the right way
Robomouse really has his wheels on the ground! Robomouse really has his head screwed on the right way!
United Kingdom
Philosophy, Philology specialist.
Native in: Italian
Works in: English to Italian, Italian to English
to be on a roll
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10 years experience, MA French & Italian
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, Italian to English, English
scroller/scroll wheel
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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-07-05 10:31:53 GMT)
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Hi Alessandro,
You could say "on a scroll"...play on words between scroll wheel and "on a roll" as Debora suggests?
| thanks heloise, the thing is, I should maintain the "essere in gamba" meaning, i.e. being smart... do you think I still could say "in scroller"? |
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Native in: Italian
Works in: Italian, Italian to English, English to Italian
wimpish / oafish / clodhopping
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Glenda Janssen
: It's exactly the contrary. The mouse is "in gamba," but it's being punned on.
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Rollerjack
I thought about the term crackerjack, which means: "a person or thing of exceptional quality or ability".
If you take a look at its etymology (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cracker-jack), you see it comes from the two terms being put together.
Well, I thought about this... You put roller instead of cracker..
I think it would be a funny pun...
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Native in: English (Variants: South African, British, Scottish, Irish, Singaporean, UK) 
Works in: French to English, Italian to English, Romanian to English, and 2 more.
On the ball
http://paroladelgiorno.com/2011/02/23/in-gamba/
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=56605
"on the ball" means the same thing more or less (or can be used at the same times anyway):
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/on the ball.htm...
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/be on the ball
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