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mauvais quart d'heure
/ movɛ kar dœr /
noun
- a brief unpleasant experience
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
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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