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All the boxes were ticked
As today’s news article has an issue with the audio, I’m going back to 23 Aug episode of the news and this sentence.
In this segment they are discussing Josephine Baker who was in the headlines for Macron’s agreement to have her reburied in the Panthéon in Paris. While she will be allowed to be reburied there, her family has instead decided to erect a plaque only. Ultimately, they have decided to keep her body in its current resting place in Monaco. (According to Wikipedia, Aug 2021)
I was immediately struck by this phrase while going through the English translation – “All the boxes were checked”. It’s a forgone conclusion that I’ll need to use this kind of statement in the post. What a great turn of phrase. It’s absolutely something I might say and would love to say in French.
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Toutes les cases étaient cochées pour qu’elle devienne une icône de la diversité française qu’elle avait poussée à son paroxysme en adoptant douze enfants de pays et de continents différents.
All the boxes were ticked for her to become an icon of French diversity which she had taken to its climax by adopting twelve children from different countries and continents.
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Toutes les cases étaient cochées
devienne une icône
poussée
paroxysme
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