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177 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

French > English

Subject:

Other

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

un idiot comme on n'en faisait plus

Context:

Il était le roi d'imbéciles, un idiot comme on n'en faisait plus...This guy is drowning...

Keywords:

...his sorrows at a bar, as he realized how stupid he's been to split up with his fiancée.

 

 

The answer of Jennifer White  See profile was rated best

a prize idiot

My comment:

I can't see how you can translate literally in this context without creating a very clumsy unidiomatic phrase.