au mieux

adverb

On intimate terms.

OriginFrench au mieux →
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Meanings

adverbau mieux (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOn intimate terms.

    The Maharajah, out of sheer mischievousness, accused him of being au mieux with a lady.

    1953, E. M. Forster, The Hill of Devi
    1 more example

    I remember no emotion of any sort, but just the clear feeling that one has from time to time when one hears that some Mrs So-and-So is au mieux with a certain gentleman.

    1915, Ford Madox Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], The Good Soldier […], London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Frenchau mieux
  2. Englishau mieux

From French au mieux.

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