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145 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:

rivederlo su piano normale

Context:

Sergio Fenoaltea era divenuto ormai un vecchio uomo di governo. Non fu che dopo la sua...

Keywords:

...sostituzione al sottosegretariato alla presidenza del consiglio, che potei rivederlo su un piano normale.

 

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145 months ago

  See profile wrote:

in a casual manner

145 months ago

  See profile wrote:

see him again as an ordinary man

My comment:

The other suggestions (on an equal footing) also capture the meaning: now that he's not in government any more, Sergio has been stripped of whatever superior airs he had while in gov. and is more like the ordinary person he used to be, at the same level as the narrator.

145 months ago

  See profile wrote:

on the same level/on equal terms

145 months ago

  See profile wrote:

that I could see him coming down to earth (with a bang)

My comment:

the last part if you wish-it is a pun-as he could no longer assume airs; he became a commoner like all

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145 months ago

Josephine Cassar  See profile wrote:

that I could see him coming down to earth (with a bang)

My comment:

the last part if you wish-it is a pun-as he could no longer assume airs; he became a commoner like all

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see/meet him on a normal level/on an equal footing

145 months ago

TRADUPROF  See profile wrote:

that I could see him (meet him) on a normal plane.