Words similar to faire
Example sentences for: faire
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Yet Hong Kong's champions of laissez faire and low government spending have been curiously silent in response to the new signals coming from the top.
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.
Later: Tony Blair eats Comice pears with aged Gruyère-- c'est savoir faire .
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.