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à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1]à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu"; In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes "à la carte" rather than a fixed-price meal "menu".
Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed with the "define" operator and other similar phrases [note 1] in Google Search. [2] It is also available in Google Translate and as a Google Chrome extension. The dictionary content is licensed from Oxford University Press's Oxford Languages. [3]
An idiom is a phrase or expression that largely or exclusively carries a figurative or non-literal meaning, rather than making any literal sense. Categorized as formulaic language , an idiomatic expression's meaning is different from the literal meanings of each word inside it. [ 1 ]
Expressions like femme fatale, faux pas, haute couture, bête noire and enfant terrible are still recognisably French. Borrowings are not a one-way process (See Reborrowing). Some words of French origin ultimately come from Old English (Anglo-Saxon words): e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, or Middle English: e.g. lingot.
En tabarnak or en câlisse can mean "extremely angry". In the movie Bon Cop, Bad Cop, Quebec actor and stand-up comic Patrick Huard's character teaches Colm Feore's how to swear properly. [5] These expressions are found less commonly in literature, but rappers and other singers often use criss and câlice as a rhyme.
Dec 12, 2024; Chapel Hill, NC, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels new head coach Bill Belichick speaks to those attending his hiring announcement at Loudermilk Center for Excellence.
Franglais (French: [fʁɑ̃ɡlɛ]) or Frenglish (/ ˈ f r ɛ ŋ ɡ l ɪ ʃ / FRENG-glish) is a French blend that referred first to the overuse of English words by French speakers [1] and later to diglossia or the macaronic mixture of French (français) and English (anglais). [2]
PhonePe's share of UPI payments stood at 47.8% in November 2024 while Google Pay's share was at 37%, according to regulatory data. The two firms processed a combined 13.1 billion transactions in ...