Begue dʹentendement
.This is a really happy phrase for one whose wits are gone wool-gathering; he is a man of “stammering understanding.”
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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.