Lac aveugle doesn’t have more sense (or less sense) in French than “blind lake” in English. Although google maps doesn’t find any, there might be actual lakes in France with that name just like there are also a couple of ...
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The meanings of “on aurait dit que” and “en aller de son honneur”
Business EditorsMeaning is : At that moment, he decided to help me. As if his own honour was at stake. “It looked as if” is correct. “Il y va de son honneur” it’s a question of honour for him.
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Three different ways to express the idea of “hardly”
Associations EditorsNe … guère means here “a little but not much” while à peine si means in the first sentence “almost not”, i.e. the first measurable level above no effort at all so in the third sentence, more efforts are made ...