What do they call French toast in France? (And other similar questions)
Read moreIn English, many things are named after a particular country – but have you ever wondered what those things are called in those countries?
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autoparodia femeninoparodia de sí mismo femenino- Now, almost a decade later, his words sound like self-parody.
- As a result, she made innuendo and self-parody into a fine art, writing the scripts of five out of her nine Hollywood movies.
- It would have enabled Webber to pull off the magnificent feat of taking self-parody to the edge of the cliff and then running right back to tell a creative story.
- At times their ignorance degenerated into self-parody.
- As with the late cinema of Pasolini, it's hard to know where provocation ends and camp self-parody begins.
- It is funny, as unintentional self-parody often is.
- On second thought, Al may have a career in self-parody.
- Continue peddling misery and you risk self-parody.
- Unlike many actors of his generation, he has respected and honed his talent rather than squandered it indiscriminately or succumbed to the rigor mortis of self-parody.
- In either case, this backfires because his fans may feel robbed of witnessing his all-conquering self-parody, but I digress.
- Never before has Apple soared to such heights of self-parody!
- His deft portrayal of English stoicism and self-parody brings a welcome humour and poignancy to the production.
- He has tip-toed to the edge of self-parody and beat an honourable retreat.
- I wouldn't have characterized it as self-parody.
- Perhaps there is even an element of self-parody.
- By the end, self-parody was his only reliable source of income.
- To make an album like this you've got to have lived music for more than 20 years and yet never settled for clichés or self-parody.
- Isn't satirizing self-parody akin to shooting fish in a petri dish?
- We may feel that we have heard it before, but not as if we are reading self-parody.
- They dance along the knife-edge of self-parody and total irrelevance, but they never topple over.
Further reading
12 ways to say goodbye in other languages
Find out moreEnglish has borrowed many of the following foreign expressions of parting, so you’ve probably encountered some of these ways to say goodbye in other languages.
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