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You could say that…
Interesting roundabout expression in today’s snippet. I’m not sure how often I ever use this in English. It still caught my eye.
It’s interesting that it’s “we” as the subject, even though it best translates as “you could” in English. Might be the communal touch of France to include the listener with the speaker? Or you could say that might be a reach. It is interesting, all the same.
Linguee.fr finds many instances of this expression and always translated as “you could say that”. I might be missing something that “on” or we is not actually “we” in some instances.
Either way, it’s definitely time to get a teacher, so I can really learn. Either way, with this, I can still pick out these expressions and idioms in everyday speech.
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Il n’aime pas l’école mais il est intelligent. Il commence à vendre ses dessins et il a beaucoup de succès.
Il fait aussi des caricatures d’hommes politiques et il augmente ses prix.
On pourrait dire qu’il a hérité du sens des affaires de ses parents commerçants. Il devient rapidement une petite célébrité locale.
He doesn’t like school but he’s smart. He begins to sell his drawings and he is very successful.
He also makes caricatures of politicians and he raises his prices.
You could say he inherited his business acumen from his merchant parents. He quickly becomes a small local celebrity.
“Playing hookie” is an expression which means that sometimes he does not go to school, if he does not want to go.
So for Monet, the school is a prison and during the lessons, he makes drawings, caricatures of his teachers.
The above text translated using Google Translate. Translation Link. The content in French is courtesy of Paris o’clock.
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il augmente ses prix
On pourrait dire qu’…
a hérité
sens des affaires
Il devient
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