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Pied de la Lettre (Au)

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Quite literally.

“Of course, you will not take everything I have said quite au pied de la lettre.”—Fra. Ollæ: A Philosophical Trilogy.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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