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Her mother, née Capet, was a grande dame, full of savoir faire and joie de vivre, who later became a clairvoyant and spent her time in séances and collecting naïf gouaches and objets d'art.
Supranational bodies like the World Trade Organization and NAFTA are seen as mere lubricants of laissez faire.
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I have encountered it in South Carolina and Georgia, and Thomas Wolfe puts it into the mouth of one of his characters in (I think) Look Homeward, Angel . I have assumed that it derivers from the French expression manquer faire `just miss doing, almost do,' the primary meaning of manquer being `to lack,' which could have shifted into colloquial usage as like . I cite this merely as a possibility, definitive proof being pretty hard to dig up.
Hollywood's excuse is that most supposed similarities are "scenes à faire "--the concept that if you have a plot about, say, a felon hiding as a nun, certain scenes and dialogue (God works in mysterious ways jokes, for example) inevitably follow.