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mauvais quart d'heure
/ movɛ kar dœr /
noun
- a brief unpleasant experience
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mauvais quart d'heure1
literally: (a) bad quarter of an hour
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Example Sentences
The result of Olympe's aspirations was, we know, such a mauvais quart d'heure with Anne for the Cardinal as to terrify him.
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There was a mauvais quart d'heure below, during which, I am ashamed to say, I forgot the quest.
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In fact, the mauvais quart d'heure was really due to the innate womanly weakness of Mademoiselle Justine Delande.
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The news from Egypt is certainly not reassuring, and the mauvais quart d'heure may arrive at any moment.
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So he and the famous goat were mutually spared many a mauvais quart d'heure.
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