I could get on to the... highbrow talk as long as it was in American. But once they begin the parlez-vous, oui, oui, I'm a gone goose. (S. Lewis, ‘Free Air’, ch. XII) — Их ученый разговор мне был понятен, пока он шел по-английски. Но когда я слышал это французское "parlez-vous", я чувствовал, что погибаю.
Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.
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