Italian speakers, I need your help

[theresmiling@ibe.social]

Italian speakers, I need your help!

There's the line in Diodato's song "Solo":

e non mi fermerà certo il pianto di una strega

I wonder if "il pianto di una strega" is an idiom, or if it means exactly what it says: the crying of a witch. (Whatever that might mean though.)

Grazie mille!!

#italiano

[floreana@poliversity.it]

@theresmiling
Italian native here.
I don't think "il pianto di una strega" is an idiom. Never heard of it before. True, there's still a chance it might be a regional idiom.
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[waltertross@mastodon.online]

@floreana
I confirm 100%
@theresmiling

[francina1909@mastodon.uno]

@waltertross @floreana @theresmiling
Third Italian here.
And also I confirm that it is not an idiom.
Anyway, the term "strega" is used not only to indicate a magic woman, but also a bad female person. Thus, maybe, in the text of that song, it has the second meaning.

[max@poliverso.org]

@theresmiling

Italian number four, it's not an idiom.

[theresmiling@ibe.social]

@max@poliverso.org Grazie! At least that is clear now. The meaning however is still unclear to me. But that's alright. It's poetry, things aren't always clear. 😅 At least the rest of the text is.

[max@poliverso.org]

@theresmiling

I've just read the lyrics and it doesn't make sense to me either.

He probably needed a word to rhyme with "frega" and "strega" was all that he thought of 😁