Aiga ae corde or acqua alle corde (literally it means "water on the ropes")

On September 10, 1586 Pope Sisto V wanted to erect the Egyptian obelisk that still stands today in Saint Peter's Square. Given the solemnity of the occasion, he had imposed silence on everyone present invoking the death penality. They were not succeeding in hoisting up the extremely heavy monument. At that moment a citizen from Bordighera shouted in dialect "Aiga ae corde" or "Acqua alle corde" (litterally it means "water on the ropes", dampening the ropes would facilitate those hoisting it up by hand). They thus succeeded in positioning it definitively. Not only did the pope spare him his life but from then on the palms for the period of Easter were always sent to Rome from Bordighera.
Casalino Pierluigi, on June 20 2014