Entry — Italian, colloquial
spiegamelo
pron. /spjeˈɡa·me·lo/
syll. spie·ga·me·lo
verb, imperative
1.
“Explain it to me.” A request to have something difficult unfolded and made plain — patiently, and from the beginning.
2.
An invitation to turn the complex into the understood; a small, ordinary act of generosity between two people.
Etymology. Compound imperative of spiegare — “to explain, to unfold” — with the clitics me (to me) and lo (it). Literally: unfold it for me.