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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An abbreviation of tropic, tropical, or tropically.
Etymologies
- Middle English, act of tripping, from trippen, to trip, from Old French tripper, to stamp the foot, of Germanic origin.
Examples
“Des que je souleve ne serait-ce qu'un bras ou que je dis une phrase trop longue (oui je peux reparler aussi!!) je m'essouffle comme un boeuf!”
“Perhaps it was de trop considering this isn't the Middle Eastern conflict, darling, just a sloshed fashion designer, slurring vilely, but also fashion enfant terrible-style, about "dirty Jews", "gassing" and "I love Hitler".”
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“Français · Inde: Le meurtre de trop qui bouleverse l'état du Manipur”
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“The rest of dinner was perfectly decent but a little confused in some of the pairings – a starter of beetroot soup, salmon tartare and frito Mallorquín lamb's offal with fried potato, aubergine and peppers seemed a little de trop.”
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“I sorely wanted to post (in-your-face raunch, you have been warned) this image but thought it might be de trop even for me.”
“Merci pour tous les mots du jour, mais attention à la «gastro» dont pourraient souffrir ceux qui font trop bonne chère!”
“Je suis desolee mais mon francais n'est pas trop bon.”
“Il fait gris mais pas trop froid ici dans le Massachusetts.”
“Some of the evening's didacticism was possibly de trop: The concert's organizers seemed to be working on the assumption that the orchestral audience wouldn't be too familiar with opera, and therefore introduced and spelled out, scene by scene, the plot of an opera that's remained among the most-performed in the canon since the late 18th century and that was performed by singers in semi-costume the men wore suits, with English supertitles.”
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“Pour ma part, je pense que oui - mais peut-être que je m'avance trop.”
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