Non mangiare le neve gialla.

English Translation

Don’t eat the yellow snow.

La neve or le neve? ( This sentence is already strange).

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Perhaps it makes more sense if you live with a lot of snow or run a ski lodge. The yellow stuff could be very unpleasant;-)

There are several odd ones like this particularly on the English from Italian course, that make me think twice.

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“La neve” is correct here. It’s an irregular singular noun. If you wanted to say the plural version, you’d say “le nevi”.

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I don’t know the original source but that expression was made famous by a song released in 1974 by Frank Zappa titled “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow.”

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Famous but mostly incomprehensible, at least to me:

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