| 词汇 | revenons à nos moutons |
| 释义 | Definition of revenons à nos moutons in English:revenons à nos moutons(also revenons a nos moutons) nounˈrɛvnɒnz a nəʊ ˈmuːtɒnzˈrɛvnɒ̃z a nəʊ ˈmuːtɒ̃ humorous
OriginEarly 19th century; earliest use found in Walter Scott (1771–1832), poet and novelist. From French revenons à nos moutons, lit. ‘let us return to our sheep’, originally an allusion to the line Sus! revenons à ces moutons ‘Come now! let us return to these sheep’, spoken by a judge seeking to bring a digressing litigant back to the question of some stolen sheep in a court scene in the Farce de Maistre Pierre Pathelin. Definition of revenons à nos moutons in US English:revenons à nos moutons(also revenons a nos moutons) noun humorous
OriginEarly 19th century; earliest use found in Walter Scott (1771–1832), poet and novelist. From French revenons à nos moutons, lit. ‘let us return to our sheep’, originally an allusion to the line Sus! revenons à ces moutons ‘Come now! let us return to these sheep’, spoken by a judge seeking to bring a digressing litigant back to the question of some stolen sheep in a court scene in the Farce de Maistre Pierre Pathelin. |
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