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facon de parler
noun as in flight of fancy
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But you're so matter-of-fact, Archdeacon, when it suits your purpose, that one can't trust oneself to any façon de parler.
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When all is said and done, is there not more hope, more solace, in an enigma than in a façon de parler?
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He had no money, by-the-bye, it was merely his façon de parler.
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And as for idleness, that, of course, is only a façon de parler.
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Neither was this poverty a relative poverty, a mere “façon de parler,” as some would maintain.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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