| 释义 |
‖ au pied de la lettre, phr.|o pje də la lɛtr|
[Fr., lit. ‘to the foot of the letter’.]
Exactly, down to the last detail; literally.
1782H. Walpole Let. 10 Nov. (1904) XII. 368 The Romans..loved to be obeyed au pied de la lettre. 1854Mrs. Gaskell North & S. (1855) II. vi. 78 Some one had told you that stolen fruit tasted sweetest, which you took au pied de la lettre, and off you went a-robbing. 1863Blackw. Mag. Feb. 192/1 She does not always intend that we should believe her au pied de la lettre. 1936A. Huxley Eyeless in Gaza xiii. 173 A purely figurative and metaphorical sanctity taken au pied de la lettre. |