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160 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:

fare bon viso

Context:

Piu tardi mio zio le chiese a che cosa avesse pensato in una giornata cosi memoranda. "Ho.

Keywords:

...pensato," rispose la signora Florence Page, "che oggi potresti anche fare buon viso ad uno dei sigari che il Kaiser ha regalato personalmente al povero Giorgio Wurts!" The day after the end of World War I, in Rome, the American ambassador and his wife are talking.

 

 

The answer of   See profile was rated best

resign yourself to accepting (one of the cigars)

My comment:

My feeling is that in this context the meaning is that the uncle should conform to the circomstance by accepting one of the Kaiser's cigars.