à quia
(Redirected from réduire à quia)
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin quia (“because”); when one is out of arguments, the only line of argumentation left is saying “because [I say so]”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]à quia (invariable)
- silenced, nonplussed, speechless, tongue-tied, dumbfounded
- réduire quelqu’un à quia, mettre quelqu’un à quia ― to reduce to silence, to silence, to hush up
- être à quia ― not to know what to say
- 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 5, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:
- Les bots réduits à quia, le champ s’ouvrait.
- With the bots tongue-tied, the field's open.
Further reading
[edit]- “quia”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.