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157 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

Italian > English

Subject:

Other

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

ma che vuoi, se glielo dici, perdi la lezione

Context:

Quando Casella entrò e mi vide, rimase seccato. "Vedi queste americane ricche, vogliono...

Keywords:

...suonare per forza quello che non possono, e che non debbono suonare. Ma che vuoi, se glielo dici, perdi la lezione. E, sai, pagano bene." E mi fece il classico cenno con le tre dita...Casella is a piano teacher who is talking to the protagonist about his rich dilletantish study who, it turns out, is a very poor pianist.

 

 

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but you see, if you tell them, you lose their business