MARE from Latin MARE = SEA QUEST’ANNO PASSIAMO L’ESTATE AL MARE, this year we’ll spend the summer by the sea (beach)CI SONO TANTI PESCI NEL MARE, there are many fish in the seaADORO L’ODORE DEL MARE, I love the smell of the seabut alsoUN MARE DI SCARPE , a sea of shoes, a lot of shoesTI VOGLIO UN MARE DI BENE, I love you a lotC’È UN MARE DI GENTE OGGI IN CENTRO, there’s a lot of people downtown todaySONO IN UN MARE DI GUAI!! I’m in a lot of trouble!!ESSERE IN ALTO MARE, literally to be In the open waters of a sea, to be very far from the end of something, a solution, the end of a task etc.NON POSSO VENIRE ALL FESTA, SONO ANCORA IN ALTO MARE CON I COMPITI, I can’t come to the party, I’m still far from finishing my homeworkPROMETTERE MARI E MONTI, to promise seas and mountains, promising things that are more likely to be impossibile to deliverMI HA PROMESSO MARI A MONTI E POI NON HA FATTO NIENTE , He promised the moon and then he did nothing.