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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 from the menu rather than a fixed-price meal.
The following words are commonly used and included in French dictionaries. le pull: E. pullover, sweater, jersey. le shampooing, [1] the shampoo; le scoop, in the context of a news story or as a simile based on that context. While the word is in common use, the Académie française recommends a French synonym, "exclusivité". [2] le selfie.
Also excluded are words that come from French but were introduced into English via another language, e.g. commodore, domineer, filibuster, ketone, loggia, lotto, mariachi, monsignor, oboe, paella, panzer, picayune, ranch, vendue, and veneer. English words of French origin should be distinguished from French words and expressions in English.
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Both dialects have the expression "to table [a topic]" as a short way of saying to lay [a topic] on the table and to make [a topic] lie on the table, but these have opposite meanings in these two dialects. The difference is due to how long the topic is thought to stay on the table.
The One Time It's Best To Say "I'm Busy" All of the above responses are great swaps for "I'm busy," but Dr. Cooper says there's one time when the phrase is the best one to go with.
A pseudo-French expression in English is a word or expression in English that has the appearance of having been borrowed from French, but which in fact was created in English and does not exist in French. Several such French expressions have found a home in English. The first continued in its adopted language in its original obsolete form ...