à l'affût

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a l‿a.fy/

Adjective

à l'affût (invariable)

  1. on the lookout [with de ‘for something’]
    Synonyms: aux aguets, sur le qui-vive
    être à l'affût ― to lie in wait, to be on the lookout (for)
    • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:
      Il avait des guêtre bouclées jusqu'aux genoux, sa casquette enfoncée jusqu'aux yeux, les lèvres grelottantes et le nez rouge. C'était le capitaine Binet, à l'affût des canards sauvages.
      He had gaiters buckled up to the knees, his cap pulled down over his eyes, trembling lips, and a red nose. It was Captain Binet lying in ambush for wild ducks.
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