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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2025

El Mustapha Lahlali
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
Tajul Islam
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
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Summary

Oh what a pity! It’s too bad! Alas!

To make a firm resolution on, intend firmly (to do s.th.)

It is your duty

Front line

One by one, single, one after another

Each of them

One by one, single, one after another

What a pity! Too bad!

I mention, among them, especially

To bury s.o.

Imports and exports

Widespread

Abounding in mercy (in justice)

Patient, forbearing, generous, magnanimous

Comprehensive, extensive, far-reaching, large-scale

Very well-off!

To work by day and night

To make untiring efforts for

Self-evident, self-explanatory

Occupier

His fate overtook him

Reality, the real, material world

Factual findings, facts

Let alone that, not to mention that, to say nothing of . . .

Under these circumstances, such being the case, things being as they are

One may say, it must be admitted, it’s only fair to say, say what you will . . .

In short, briefly

And vice versa

And the rule is, as a rule . . .

By God!

Obviously, evidently . . .

In the following, the reader will find what . . .

The matter is, as follows

And why shouldn’t he?

(with على to express regret) Too bad for . . .!

With him

And everything else that belongs to it

Official documents

To make smooth (s.th. esp. the bed)

To have self-confidence

It is his duty to, he is duty bound to, he has to, he must

He became distracted from it in

Toothache

That much, at least, can be said that . . .

In short, to sum up, briefly stated . . .

In short, to sum up, briefly stated . . .

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A Dictionary of Arabic Idioms and Expressions
Arabic-English Translation
, pp. 336 - 347
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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