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单词 folie de grandeur
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Definition of folie de grandeur in English:

folie de grandeur

nounˌfɒlɪ də ɡrɒ̃ˈdəːˈfôˌlēdəɡräNˈdər
mass noun
  • Delusions of grandeur.

    夸大狂,自大狂

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For the whole folie de grandeur of this absurd project points to a genuine revolution in ‘brand reinforcement.’
    • In the first place it encouraged a certain folie de grandeur in terms of my literary aspirations and my estimation of my own talent.
    • ‘The Daily Mail maybe, but this sounds like folie de grandeur,’ he says.
    • Is it their strangeness or their sheer folie de grandeur which attracts me to them?
    • Hopefully, it was not a harbinger of more delusional folie de grandeur.
    • Attempting to be a hagiography of everybody involved, it becomes instead a satire of the whole folie de grandeur of this absurd project.
    • In old age he was taken by folie de grandeur and bankrupted himself with ventures.
    • For ETO to do Bohème in Italian is folie de grandeur on a mind-boggling scale.
    • This is not only a folie de grandeur, given that it will be American soldiers who will end up doing the fighting.
    • Critique, elegant confusion, and folie de grandeur are inherently interesting, and in a way you don't want the mystique dispelled by too many details.
    • Mountbatten who accused him of folie de grandeur dismissed the idea of taking over the country as rank treason and told King to get out when he put it to him.
    • He has fallen into a folie de grandeur, however, if he believes we can will a gallon of gas into our tank or a loaf of bread onto our table.
    Synonyms
    delusions of grandeur, obsessionalism, grandiosity, grandioseness

Origin

French.

Definition of folie de grandeur in US English:

folie de grandeur

nounˈfôˌlēdəɡräNˈdər
  • Delusions of grandeur.

    夸大狂,自大狂

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For ETO to do Bohème in Italian is folie de grandeur on a mind-boggling scale.
    • Mountbatten who accused him of folie de grandeur dismissed the idea of taking over the country as rank treason and told King to get out when he put it to him.
    • He has fallen into a folie de grandeur, however, if he believes we can will a gallon of gas into our tank or a loaf of bread onto our table.
    • This is not only a folie de grandeur, given that it will be American soldiers who will end up doing the fighting.
    • In the first place it encouraged a certain folie de grandeur in terms of my literary aspirations and my estimation of my own talent.
    • Critique, elegant confusion, and folie de grandeur are inherently interesting, and in a way you don't want the mystique dispelled by too many details.
    • For the whole folie de grandeur of this absurd project points to a genuine revolution in ‘brand reinforcement.’
    • Attempting to be a hagiography of everybody involved, it becomes instead a satire of the whole folie de grandeur of this absurd project.
    • Hopefully, it was not a harbinger of more delusional folie de grandeur.
    • Is it their strangeness or their sheer folie de grandeur which attracts me to them?
    • ‘The Daily Mail maybe, but this sounds like folie de grandeur,’ he says.
    • In old age he was taken by folie de grandeur and bankrupted himself with ventures.
    Synonyms
    delusions of grandeur, obsessionalism, grandiosity, grandioseness

Origin

French.

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