de toutes les pensées et de leur contraire
English translation: has said/asserted everything and its opposite
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|  Selected response from: Conor McAuley France Local time: 11:52 | ||||
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all thoughts/opinions and counter-thoughts/opinions Explanation: Off the top of my head... |
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27 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1the gamut of opinions (or ideas), including their very opposites Explanation: an idea |
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1all the pros and cons Explanation: another way of saying it |
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all the opinions and just their opposite... Explanation: There is irony in this piece of text ... |
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11 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1black one day, white the next Explanation: ... the government has said black one day, white the next. I think you can improve this but the idea is there! |
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12 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +5
peer agreement (net): +5has said/asserted everything and its opposite Explanation: Shortest and tidiest way to put it. "In should be remembered that...energy issues, the government has asserted everything and its opposite" Politics: "The program of the left contains everything and its opposite, like all election platforms. It will depend on Prodi’s ability to disentangle himself, ... http://www.usitalia.info/dettaglio.asp?Art_Id=1437&Art_Tema=... [I]n a veering column which seemed to assert everything and its opposite, Dionne valiantly made the case for Bill Clinton's politics but not his personality ... http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20010409.html Globalization is everything and its opposite. The result is that the collection says pretty much everything and its opposite “America is resented for everything and its opposite: It is at once too prurient and too puritanical; too elitist, yet also too egalitarian; too chaotic, The Talmud, the body of law that dictates the community's life, "contains everything and its opposite", comments Rivka's mother. "That way, men can do what ... http://www.newstatesman.com/200007310033 http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q="everything and its oppo... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 13 hrs (2007-02-09 11:50:12 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- More idiomatic still: "it must be remembered that the government has taken (up) (completely) contradictory positions on energy issues, not to mention other issues" http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q="taken contradictory pos... The tone is quite scathing, methinks. |
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