06-23-2009, 12:12 PM
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"walk about as large as life"
Hello,
There is a sentence which I don't understand: "the old man was there walking about as large as life" What's the meaning of the expression? How would you translate it in French? Thanks by advance |
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06-24-2009, 03:29 PM
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Hi,
here is the meaning of the expression "as large as life (British, American & Australian) also as big as life (American) if you say that someone was somewhere as large as life, you mean that you were surprised to see them there ex: I looked up from my paper and there he was, as large as life, Tim Taylor! Cambridge Idioms Dictionary, 2nd ed. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006. " from as large as life - Idioms - by the Free Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. for a good translation in French, please can you provide some context for your sentence?
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06-25-2009, 10:32 PM
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Well, it's about a room where the hero's dead grandfather (the "old man") used to proceed to occult rituals.
"I don't like that room. I said nothing about it to [the hero] ; but the old man was there walking about as large as life. You have to be specially prepared to see these things." I think the narrator has hallucinations. Last edited by summersunset; 06-25-2009 at 10:44 PM. |
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