Italians are an expressive bunch, and what they don't say with their hands they can express very well with a couple of carefully selected syllables. 

Here are just seven of the sorts of phrases Italians use to express everything from mild surprise to outright disgust. 

My love affair with Italy isn’t over just yet. But, after you’ve lived here for a while there are a few things which seriously start to get on your nerves.

Aside from nodding vigorously and shrugging my shoulders a lot, I've found the following phrases extremely useful when trying to blag my way to sounding like an Italian.