in passing

English

Prepositional phrase

in passing

1. Incidentally; as a brief diversion from another topic etc.

   We mostly talked about his mother's illness, but he told me in passing that he'd won a small prize in the lottery.

Translations

incidentally

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 順便／顺便 (zh) (shùnbiàn), 顺便 (zh) (shùnbiàn)

• Dutch: in het voorbijgaan, en passant (nl), terloops (nl)
• Finnish: ohimennen (fi)
• French: en passant (fr)
• German: beiläufig (de); nebenbei (de); zwischen Tür und Angel (de)
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• Latin: obiter
• Portuguese: de passagem
• Russian: мимохо́дом (ru) (mimoxódom), вскользь (ru) (vskolʹzʹ), ме́жду про́чим (méždu próčim)
• Spanish: de pasada
• Swedish: i förbifarten (sv)