Conversation KillersThatNiceMan asks: Have you ever been talking with people down the pub when somebody throws such a complete curveball (Sample WTF moment: "I wonder what it's like to get bummed") that all talk is stopped dead? Tell us!
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 12 May 2011, 12:53)
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You don't hate it. You love it. You slag.Both general forms (noun preposition noun and noun preposition article noun) are common but as you (or your book) say, the literal meaning is different. My medium-fat Larousse gives a couple of dozen examples of each form just for the word esprit.
Thus quoth the wordnerds of expressio.fr:
www.expressio.fr/expressions/avoir-l-esprit-de-l-escalier.php
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Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 19 May 2011, 10:53,
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