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English
Etymology
From French de trop (“too much”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
de trop (comparative more de trop, superlative most de trop)
- excessive or superfluous
I think that wellingtons are a little de trop for a light shower.
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 6, in Vanity Fair , London: Bradbury and Evans , published 1848, →OCLC:"I should only be de trop," said the Captain, looking at them rather wistfully. "I'd best go and talk to the hermit,"—and so he strolled off out of the hum of men, and noise, and clatter of the banquet, into the dark walk, at the end of which lived that well-known pasteboard Solitary.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
de trop (invariable)
- too many, too much, more than is desirable, in excess
- Synonym: en trop
- Vous m’avez rendu dix centimes de trop. ― You gave me back ten cents too much.
- la fois de trop ― the straw that broke the camel's back
- le mot de trop ― the last straw
- ne pas être de trop ― not to go amiss
- unnecessary; unwanted; in the way
- Synonyms: gênant, importun, indésirable
- Je me suis senti de trop pendant cette soirée. ― I felt like I was unwanted during that evening.
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