à dire vrai

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /a diʁ vʁɛ/
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Adverb

à dire vrai

  1. Alternative form of à vrai dire
    • 1992, Amélie Nothomb, translated by Alison Anderson, Hygiène de l'assassin; republished as Hygiene and the Assassin, 2010:
      À dire vrai, que ce sédentaire adipeux ait survécu jusqu’à l’âge de quatre-vingt-trois ans rendait perplexe la médecine moderne.
      Modern medicine was sincerely puzzled by the fact that this adipose, sedentary man had survived to the age of eighty-three.
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