façon de parler
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French façon de parler.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: făsôɴ də păʀlé, IPA(key): /fasɔ̃ də paɹle/
Noun
[edit]façon de parler (plural façons de parler)
- A turn of phrase or rhetorical formula, especially one that ought not to be taken literally, but rather as employed for convenience of expression only.
- 1999: Simon Blackburn, Think: A compelling introduction to philosophy, chapter 7: The World, section 6: Kant’s Revolution, pages 258–259 (Oxford University Press, paperback, →ISBN
- This might all seem grist to Berkeley’s mill. Berkeley himself knew that we interpret our experience in spatio-temporal, objective terms. But he thought we had to ‘speak with the vulgar but think with the learned’: in other words, learn to regard that interpretation as a kind of façon de parler, rather than the description of a real, independent, objective world.
- 1999: Simon Blackburn, Think: A compelling introduction to philosophy, chapter 7: The World, section 6: Kant’s Revolution, pages 258–259 (Oxford University Press, paperback, →ISBN
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[edit]References
[edit]- “‖façon de parler” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “way of speaking”, “manner of speech”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]façon de parler f (plural façons de parler)
- façon de parler
- Synonym: manière de parler
- Désolé si je t’ai vexé, c’était juste une façon de parler.
- Sorry for having annoyed you, it was a façon de parler.
Phrase
[edit]- (informal) so to speak, in a manner of speaking, if one can call it that, if one can put it that way
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