| 释义 |
‖ façon de parler|fasɔ̃ də parle|
[Fr.]
A way or manner of speaking; a mere phrase or formula.
1804W. Wilberforce Let. 29 Sept. in J. Aitken Eng. Lett. XIX Cent. (1946) 28 B.'s first letter would convey the idea of his having had in his mind from the very first the..plan..but I believe that is only a façon de parler. 1806Edin. Rev. Jan. 494 Philostratus..introduces the high priest of Serapis saying, (in the time of Vitellius) ‘and who can alter the sacred institutions of Egypt?’ Was this a mere façon de parler? 1813Wellington Disp. (1838) X. 161, I hope that this mode of considering an omission which can easily be rectified, is only a façon de parler. 1886H. G. Hutchinson Hints Golf 56 A mere golfing façon de parler. 1887[see analysis 9 c]. 1907W. De Morgan Alice-for-Short xlii. 439 Which was palpably a lie, taken literally; but was a façon-de-parler that passed muster, taken leniently. 1953C. E. Bazell Linguistic Form i. 8 It is clearly a mere façon de parler when sang is split up into the segments i) sing and ii) i>a. |