à demi-mot
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
- half-spoken, in a way that is hinted at
- 1902, Jules Verne, Les Frères Kip:
- Len Cannon était assez intelligent pour comprendre à demi-mot que cela s’adressait à ses camarades des Three-Magpies comme à lui-même
- Len Cannon was smart enough to get the hint that it was aimed at his Three-Magpies shipmates as much as at him himself.