English translation of "proposta quasi strozzinesca" - "...had defined as: "An almost sharking proposal""

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150 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:	proposta quasi strozzinesca
Context:	Ne ricavai un prezzo che differiva di poco da quello che Dino Zanardo mi aveva offerto per
Keywords:	...acquistare le mie proprietà, ma che il cavaliere Ricci aveva definito "una proposta quasi strozzinesca".

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150 months ago

Mary Jane wrote:

...had defined as: "An almost sharking proposal"

My comment:

Shark is the word for Strozzino so you might want to say it the above way or also in this different reformulation: "Almost a shark's proposal".

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150 months ago

Josephine Cassar wrote:

which he almost had to strangle from me

My comment:

I am not sure of the context as it is not enough. I take it strozzinesca is taken from strozzinare-to strangle(Oxford Dict) so maybe the owner did not want to relinquish it or asked an exorbitant price

150 months ago

Josephine Cassar wrote:

which he almost had to strangle from me

My comment:

150 months ago

Giorgio Vellani wrote:

"a almost moneylender proposal"

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