close, but no cigar in Italian
close, but no cigar in Italian is ci sei quasi.
close, but no cigar in Italian
ci sei quasi
(idiomatic, originally, US, colloquial) Used to indicate that one is almost correct or has almost succeeded, but not quite. [from early 20th c.]
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