Quote Originally Posted by Throbert McGee View Post

P.S. Oh, wait... I guess I misunderstood! You were saying that you're not a native speaker of English, and weren't 100% sure about whether the English construction sounded colloquial? In any case, "it was no less than" or "it was none other than" both sound totally okay to me.
yes, I meant English is not my native language, my native language is Russian.