Significats de french idiom en anglès

On the train, Connie sits next to a girl studying French idioms.

No; all that he writes is full of French idioms.

Cut out the pidgin English and the interlarding of French idiom and phrases, won't you?

I was merely giving you a little French idiom, 'logically' and 'accurately done into English.'

They have both smiled often since so I expect it is some French idiom for reconciliation.

After all, every Italian reads Algarotti with pleasure, although his works are full of French idioms.

In his latter productions the diction is sometimes vitiated by French idioms, with which Bolingbroke had perhaps infected him.

"Madame la Comtesse is suffering," said Elsie, in the spacious French idiom.

Among the variations which suggest a more intimate knowledge of French idioms than that of Hawkins the following may be mentioned.

"Like a dead man," she replied with a little laugh, translating the French idiom.

"Mademoiselle," Lanyard mumbled, instinctively employing the French idiom-"youhave reason."

All the houses fronting the cliff had similar little gardens, giving, as the French idiom so prettily puts it, upon the sea.

'It was an odd, affectionate animal,' said Father Piret, dropping unconsciously into a French idiom to express his meaning.

"I call myself Durand," he said to Ford, using the conveniently ambiguous French idiom, "je m'appelle Durand."

He asserted, somewhat oddly, that he was the purest writer in the English language and used "no French idiom or particles, like Chaucer."

To Miss Hannah More, April 5.-In answer to an anonymous letter from Miss More, ridiculing the prevailing adoption of French idioms into the English language-363