seul à seul

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Pronunciation

Adverb

seul à seul

  1. one-on-one, in private (alone with one other person and no one else)
    Synonym: en tête-à-tête
    Il lui dit ensuite qu’il veut lui parler seul à seul
    He then told him that he wanted to talk to him one-on-one
    • 2020, Léa Le Diouris, Mise à l'épreuve, page 88:
      Il souhaitait juste me parler seul à seul, comme tout géniteur normal à son fils.
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    • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter IV:
      – Que je m’en aille avec lui ! s’écria le jeune garçon ; ah bien oui, seigneur ; Dieu m’en préserve d’y penser ! S’il me tenait seul à seul, il m’écorcherait vif comme un saint Barthélemi.
      "I go with him!" exclaimed the young boy; "Oh, no, my lord; may God prevent me from considering it! If he held me alone, he would skin me alive like a Saint Bartholomew!"

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