English translation of "altri non era se non un" - "he was none other than a ..."

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153 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:	altri non era se non un
Context:	Il archese Liborio Marignoli ed altri burloni dissero a Mereghi che, essendo arrivato a..
Keywords:	...Roma un famoso pianista straniero, sarebbe stato simpatico da part sua se egli avesse offerto un ricevimento in suo onore. Il che avvenne. Il famoso pianista altri non era se non un cuoco di Liborio Marignoli vestito in tight. Lo scherzo andò bene fino al momento in cui il marchese Mereghi chiese all "pianista" di suonare qualcosa.

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153 months ago

wrote:

turned out to be the cook

153 months ago

wrote:

...was nothing (of the sort) but a cook...

My comment:

Hope it helps :o)

153 months ago

wrote:

he was none other than a ...

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153 months ago

wrote:

in reality he was only a cook/he was nothing more than

My comment:

he was not really a pianist, as it later transpired when he was asked to play the piano-they should have expected that to happen, i.e. that he would be asked to play the piano for them

153 months ago

Josephine Cassar wrote:

in reality he was only a cook/he was nothing more than

My comment:

he was not really a pianist, as it later transpired when he was asked to play the piano-they should have expected that to happen, i.e. that he would be asked to play the piano for them

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