pay a visit
Anglais modifier
Étymologie modifier
Locution verbale modifier
pay a visit (to)
- Rendre visite (à).
- The Queen accompanies the King on official state visits abroad, and she participates when foreign heads of state pay official visits to Norway. (...) Every year the King and Queen usually pay a visit to a county in Norway. — (Det Norske Kongehus [site officiel de la famille royale norvégienne], « Her Majesty Queen Sonja ». kongehuset.no, 17 mars 2017.)
- (Familier) (Par euphémisme) Aller aux toilettes (par abréviation de pay a visit to the lavatory).
- I am reliably informed that, when members of the royal family wish to ‘pay a visit’, they inform their hosts that they ‘wish to retire’. — (Gervase Phinn, "pay+a+visit" Out of the Woods But Not Over the Hill, page 156. Hachette UK, 2010.)
Synonymes modifier
Aller aux toilettes :
Prononciation modifier
- (Australie) : écouter « pay a visit [Prononciation ?] »