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Dictionary: "tuer idée dans l'œuf" - translations and examples

tuer idée dans l'œuf verb

nip idea in the bud (au sens figuré)

Exemples with "tuer idée dans l'œuf"

J'ai l'intention d'enfoncer cette idée dans la tête des étudiants. I intend to hammer this idea into the student's heads.

Il poursuit la même idée dans tout ce pour quoi il prie. He follows the same idea in everything that he prays for.

Vous n'avez pas idée de la détresse dans laquelle elle était. You have no idea how distressed she was.

Il a failli se faire tuer dans l'accident. He barely missed being killed in the accident.

Je savais ce qu'il avait en tête, tout comme il savait ce que j'avais dans la mienne ; et tuer étant hors de question, nous fîmes ce qu'il y avait de mieux après ça. I knew what was in his mind, just as he knew what was in mine; and killing being out of the question, we did the next best.

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