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Definition of bon mot in English: bon motnounPlural bons mots, Plural bon motsbɒn ˈməʊˌbɑn ˈmoʊ A witty remark. 名言；妙语 Example sentencesExamples - Well, we have a right to bear arms so why not a right to bon mot?
- It's 40 minutes of bons mots and good humour and, as one might expect, it's slightly old-fashioned.
- This bon mot is immediately, and tellingly, followed by: ‘Follow the script.’
- Thankfully, McCaughey doesn't reserve his bons mots solely for his songs.
- There's little I enjoy more than inventing new ways to sling words together to provide a bon mot, or a mot juste, if it pleases you better.
- His elegant, meticulously phrased performances of Haydn and Mozart became legendary, as did his caustic, witty bons mots.
- Every political side gets their shot at a bon mot, a quip, or a zinger.
- But of course, the barriers are only aimed at consumers, hence the amusing bon mot, ‘Consumer Protection’.
- Didn't I make you laugh, with my laconic, self-deprecatory wit and easy facility with the well-placed bon mot?
- I usually think of something obtuse to say at this point, but I'm trying to say my bon mot for tomorrow, and the rest of the week.
- He is laconically hilarious, hot in a blonde way, he can pass off a piece of dialogue as the wittiest bon mot without breaking a sweat and he also writes.
- How sophisticated to make a bon mot of the president's name.
- He was a master of the bon mot and the devastating epithet.
- The phrase ‘laughter in court’ often came from a carefully choreographed remark from a judge, solicitor or even accused after delivering a bon mot.
- She dreams in French and occasionally drops a bon mot into conversation, obviously relishing the feel of it in her mouth.
- But his way with a withering bon mot is nothing compared with the charm he displays when dealing with the fairer sex.
- He was particularly good, for example, at rendering that slightly quizzical arch of the eyebrow and half-smile that precedes the bon mot.
- They've painted little bons mots on the walls, which set the tone.
- Their motto isn't some fancy Latin or Norman French bon mot about steadfastness and glory - it's plain, single-syllable English: ‘One shot, one kill.’
- But it's another case of the author not being famous enough to carry such a bon mot, like Oscar Wilde and James Whistler.
Synonyms witticism, quip, pun, pleasantry, jest, joke, sally informal wisecrack, one-liner rare apophthegm, paronomasia, equivoque, Atticism
OriginMid 18th century: French, literally 'good word'. Definition of bon mot in US English: bon motnounˌbän ˈmōˌbɑn ˈmoʊ A witty remark. 名言；妙语 Example sentencesExamples - How sophisticated to make a bon mot of the president's name.
- They've painted little bons mots on the walls, which set the tone.
- I usually think of something obtuse to say at this point, but I'm trying to say my bon mot for tomorrow, and the rest of the week.
- Thankfully, McCaughey doesn't reserve his bons mots solely for his songs.
- But of course, the barriers are only aimed at consumers, hence the amusing bon mot, ‘Consumer Protection’.
- He is laconically hilarious, hot in a blonde way, he can pass off a piece of dialogue as the wittiest bon mot without breaking a sweat and he also writes.
- The phrase ‘laughter in court’ often came from a carefully choreographed remark from a judge, solicitor or even accused after delivering a bon mot.
- There's little I enjoy more than inventing new ways to sling words together to provide a bon mot, or a mot juste, if it pleases you better.
- This bon mot is immediately, and tellingly, followed by: ‘Follow the script.’
- But his way with a withering bon mot is nothing compared with the charm he displays when dealing with the fairer sex.
- He was particularly good, for example, at rendering that slightly quizzical arch of the eyebrow and half-smile that precedes the bon mot.
- He was a master of the bon mot and the devastating epithet.
- It's 40 minutes of bons mots and good humour and, as one might expect, it's slightly old-fashioned.
- Well, we have a right to bear arms so why not a right to bon mot?
- She dreams in French and occasionally drops a bon mot into conversation, obviously relishing the feel of it in her mouth.
- Didn't I make you laugh, with my laconic, self-deprecatory wit and easy facility with the well-placed bon mot?
- Every political side gets their shot at a bon mot, a quip, or a zinger.
- His elegant, meticulously phrased performances of Haydn and Mozart became legendary, as did his caustic, witty bons mots.
- But it's another case of the author not being famous enough to carry such a bon mot, like Oscar Wilde and James Whistler.
- Their motto isn't some fancy Latin or Norman French bon mot about steadfastness and glory - it's plain, single-syllable English: ‘One shot, one kill.’
Synonyms witticism, quip, pun, pleasantry, jest, joke, sally
OriginMid 18th century: French, literally ‘good word’. |