la coiffure, ‘ the way you do your h air

10. s'embourber, ‘ put his foot in it ; * lit. ‘ stick in the mud * (bourbe).

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12. Cela ne fait que commencer, ‘that is only the beginning.* ‘ Only ’ is most often expressed hy ne . . . que. Que précédés the words specially qualified by ‘ only,* as : Je n'ai qu'un livre, ‘ I hâve only a book.* But when in English ‘only* qualifies the principal verb, ne faire que must be used; e.g. Il traita à fond ce que les autres n'avaient fait qu' effleurer, ‘ he treated thoroughly what the others had only touched on.’ Contrast, again, ne faire que and ne faire que de : U ne fait que sortir, ‘ he only goes out,’ ‘he does nothing but go out;* il ne fait que de sortir, ‘he has just gone out.* So too : il ne fait que dormir, ‘ he does nothing but sleep ; * nous ne faisons que d'arriver, ‘ we bave only just arrived.’ With ne faire que de cf. venir de of an action just done : Il vient de mourir, ‘he has just died.*

15. plaire à. Verbs of pleasing and displeasing govern a dative, as in Latin.