| à l'heure espagnole comment
Explanation: Anything goes, I think, given that what a French reader understands (possibly) by "l'heure espagnole" is untranslatable: it is the name of an opera by Ravel, the English title of which, "The Spanish Hour", is meaningless even to the British, other, possibly, than opera buffs.
That said, I don't know how many French people know the opera, or if the expression goes back further than Ravel's opera.
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