"à propos de bottes" meaning in All languages combined

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        "lit": "on the subject of boots"
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1892 May 14, “Essence of Parliament — Extracted from the Diary of Toby, M.P.”, in Punch, or the London Charivari, volume 102, 2005 Gutenberg edition",
          "text": "Suddenly jumped up; shook fist at back of ASQUITH's unoffending head, and, à propos de bottes, \"wanted to know about the swindling companies and their shareholders?\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Porter Lander MacClintock, Literature in the Elementary School, Gutenberg, published 2011",
          "text": "Of course, it is rather characteristic of the folk-mind, as of the child-mind, to heap up incidents à propos de bottes; but as this is one of the characteristics to be corrected in the child by his training in literature, so it is one of the faults which should exclude a fairy-tale from his curriculum.",
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          "ref": "1952, Anthony Powell, A Buyer's Market (A Dance to the Music of Time, Volume 2), Fontana Books, page 225",
          "text": "Analysis at that moment was in any case out of reach, because I realised that I had been left, at that moment, standing silently by Mrs Wentworth, to whom I now explained, à propos de bottes, that I knew Barnby."
        }
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        "Apropos of nothing; without connection to anything; by the way, unrelatedly."
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          "by the way",
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        "(dated) Apropos of nothing; without connection to anything; by the way, unrelatedly."
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          "word": "a propos de bottes"
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    },
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      "ipa": "/ˌæpɹəˌpoʊ də ˈbɑt(s)/",
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  "word": "à propos de bottes"
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "text": "Suddenly jumped up; shook fist at back of ASQUITH's unoffending head, and, à propos de bottes, \"wanted to know about the swindling companies and their shareholders?\""
        },
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          "ref": "1907, Porter Lander MacClintock, Literature in the Elementary School, Gutenberg, published 2011",
          "text": "Of course, it is rather characteristic of the folk-mind, as of the child-mind, to heap up incidents à propos de bottes; but as this is one of the characteristics to be corrected in the child by his training in literature, so it is one of the faults which should exclude a fairy-tale from his curriculum.",
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          "ref": "1952, Anthony Powell, A Buyer's Market (A Dance to the Music of Time, Volume 2), Fontana Books, page 225",
          "text": "Analysis at that moment was in any case out of reach, because I realised that I had been left, at that moment, standing silently by Mrs Wentworth, to whom I now explained, à propos de bottes, that I knew Barnby."
        }
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