mauvais quart d'heure
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of mauvais quart d'heure
literally: (a) bad quarter of an hour
Example Sentences
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Liane herself had long since put quite out of mind that mauvais quart d'heure.
From Alias the Lone Wolf by Vance, Louis Joseph
Those fifteen minutes had none the less proved a mauvais quart d'heure for Mr. Kelly.
From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew
And poor Lawrence spent a mauvais quart d'heure, inwardly fuming, I know, at the idea that he, the hero of Saspataras Hill, should be considered merely as 'the brother of Vaughan, the novelist.'
From Derrick Vaughan, Novelist by Lyall, Edna
There had been no mauvais quart d'heure in Pauline's evenings; her cousin had loyally saved her from even the momentary chagrin of being left without a courtier.
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
The various mauvais quart d'heure dialogues that this speech had interrupted were resumed, most of them switching on to the question of punctuality.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29 by Various
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