facon de parler
Example Sentences
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I only told him I should be at home as a sort of facon de parler.
From The Native Born or, the Rajah's People by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie
He told me afterwards that it was only a facon de parler, but I was angry.
From The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates
But you're so matter-of-fact, archdeacon, when it suits your purpose, that one can't trust oneself to any facon de parler.
From Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
I may speak of it as my place, but that is merely a facon de parler; it isn't necessary to explain to everybody that it's my mother's.
From The Market-Place by Harold Frederic
This may be said to be literally true and not a facon de parler, as I once killed an elk that jumped through a window.
From The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon by Sir Samuel White Baker
