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mauvais quart d'heure

/ movɛ kar dœr /

noun

  1. a brief unpleasant experience
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of mauvais quart d'heure1

literally: (a) bad quarter of an hour
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It’s given us such the mauvais quart d’heure that I’ve hardly been able to keep the quenelles down.

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The "Quart d'heure de Rabelais," if translated into Anglo-French, may be taken to express a bad time of it with the roughs in Trafalgar Square, i.e., a mauvais quart d'heure de Rabble—eh?

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But you have a mauvais quart d'heure ahead, Connolly!—curse me if you have not!

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Those fifteen minutes had none the less proved a mauvais quart d'heure for Mr. Kelly.

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For I warrant she gave him Un mauvais quart d'heure.

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