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单词 revenons à nos moutons
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Definition of revenons à nos moutons in English:

revenons à nos moutons

(also revenons a nos moutons)
nounˈrɛvnɒnz a nəʊ ˈmuːtɒnzˈrɛvnɒ̃z a nəʊ ˈmuːtɒ̃
humorous
  • ‘Let us return to the matter in hand.’ Compare to return to one's muttons.

Origin

Early 19th century; earliest use found in Walter Scott (1771–1832), poet and novelist. From French revenons à nos moutons, lit. ‘let us return to our sheep’, originally an allusion to the line Sus! revenons à ces moutons ‘Come now! let us return to these sheep’, spoken by a judge seeking to bring a digressing litigant back to the question of some stolen sheep in a court scene in the Farce de Maistre Pierre Pathelin.

Definition of revenons à nos moutons in US English:

revenons à nos moutons

(also revenons a nos moutons)
noun
humorous
  • ‘Let us return to the matter in hand.’ Compare to return to one's muttons.

Origin

Early 19th century; earliest use found in Walter Scott (1771–1832), poet and novelist. From French revenons à nos moutons, lit. ‘let us return to our sheep’, originally an allusion to the line Sus! revenons à ces moutons ‘Come now! let us return to these sheep’, spoken by a judge seeking to bring a digressing litigant back to the question of some stolen sheep in a court scene in the Farce de Maistre Pierre Pathelin.

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