être plus royaliste que le roi
/ɛ.tʁə ply ʁwa.ja.lis.t(ə) kə lə ʁwa/FRANSIZCA → TR
Tanım
•to be more Catholic than the Pope; to make more effort to defend someone's interests than they make themselves
Diğer Dillerde
more Catholic than the Pope; overly orthodox
köken: Literally, “more papal than the Pope”. Compare French plus catholique que le pape.
more Catholic than the Pope
more Catholic than the Pope
çekim: karşılaştırma pred
more Catholic than the Pope (supporting someone's ideas more vigorously than the person itself)
köken: paavillisempi (“more pope-like”) + kuin (“than”) + paavi (“pope”) + itse (“himself”)
olla paavillisempi kuin paavi itse
more Catholic than the Pope
köken: Literally, “more papal than the Pope”.
Etimoloji
Literally, “to be more royalist than the king”. From François-René de Chateaubriand, De la Monarchie selon la Charte, Paris, 1816, LXXXI.