s'il vous plaît
Americaninterjection
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Jim, if you’re out there, levez-vous, s’il vous plaît.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 5, 2017
By Posted Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, at 1:26 PM ET Where, s’il vous plaît, is the Brigitte Bardot of today?
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2013
And I spent the first few days of that course actually saying, "répétez s'il vous plaît, répétez s'il vous plaît," asking the instructors to please repeat what they were saying.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2012
I checked myself on the point of replying, pretended to falter, and then muttered in the worst French I could devise on the spur of the moment: “Parlez-vous Anglais, s’il vous plaît, Madame?”
From The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War by Allen Upward
R. S. V. P. The letters in the corner imply "Répondez, s'il vous plaît;" meaning, "an answer will oblige."
From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
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