| 词汇 | a faux pas |
| 释义 | Idiom a faux pas an embarrassing mistake made in public.I realized I'd made a real faux pas by eating my soup with my dessert spoon. faux pasAn embarrassing blunder or breach of proper etiquette, often made in front of other people. Daria didn't realize she had made such a faux pas when she went to use her salad fork to eat the main course. (make/commit) a ˌfaux ˈpas(from French) an action or a remark that causes embarrassment because it is not socially correct: I immediately made a faux pas when I forgot to take my shoes off before I went into the house.They were kind enough to overlook my faux pas and continued as if nothing had happened.The meaning of the French expression is ‘wrong step’. |
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