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le beau, j'en ai fait mon deuil

Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

sans cette tendance à voir le malin partout

English translation:

seeing the devil everywhere

Added to glossary by Cybèle Ribeyron
Dec 7, 2005 18:06
18 yrs ago
French term

sans cette tendance à voir le malin partout

French to English Social Sciences History
Qu'aurait été la civilisation sans cette tendance à voir le malin partout?

From a history notebook (4th grade)
Proposed translations (English)
3 +14 seeing the devil everywhere
4 without its knack for seeing the bad in everything

Proposed translations

+14
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French term (edited): sans cette tendance � voir le malin partout
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seeing the devil everywhere

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Peer comment(s):
agree Elizabeth Lyons
8 mins
thanks Elizabeth
agree Anna Fitzgerald
17 mins
thanks Anna
agree Rachel Ward
18 mins
thanks Rachel
agree Thierry LOTTE : What abut " The Evil One" qui fait plus "moyennageux"...
29 mins
I'll take your word for it o wise one.
agree sporran
38 mins
thanks sporran
agree Sheila Hardie : or seeing evil everywhere perhaps?
49 mins
well, le malin is really an understatement for the devil, the word was supposed to bring bad luck, they would even say l'autre on occasion :-)
agree Peter Shortall
1 hr
thanks Peter
agree Dr Sue Levy (X) : wickid, lol //Wicked of course, but you say it wickid. I ride a Hoover dear ;-)
1 hr
wickid? are you riding your broom today? oh, are you the wicked witch of western Europe?
agree Anne McKee
1 hr
thanks Anne
agree Michele Fauble
2 hrs
thanks Michele
agree sktrans
3 hrs
thanks Souad
agree DocteurPC : without his tendency to see...
3 hrs
thanks
agree emiledgar
6 hrs
thanks emiledgar
agree Georges Tocco
10 hrs
merci Georges
agree Jocelyne S : On second thought, yes, "seeing the devil..."
13 hrs
thanks JS
disagree stolley : no, definitely not. Le malin does not have to be translated as 'the devil', its just one option and sounds very odd in English.
14 hrs
FYI le malin means the devil in French.//excuse me, this is my native language!
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French term (edited): sans cette tendance � voir le malin partout

without its knack for seeing the bad in everything

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