me-too

Anglais

Étymologie

(Début du XXe siècle) De me too.

Verbe

Temps Forme
Infinitif to me-too
\mi.ˈtu\ ou \miː.ˈtuː\
Présent simple,
3e pers. sing.
me-toos
\mi.ˈtuz\ ou \miː.ˈtuːz\
Prétérit me-tooed
\mi.ˈtud\ ou \miː.ˈtuːd\
Participe passé me-tooed
\mi.ˈtud\ ou \miː.ˈtuːd\
Participe présent me-tooing
\mi.ˈtu.ɪŋ\ ou \miː.ˈtuː.ɪŋ\
voir conjugaison anglaise

me-too \mi.ˈtu\ (États-Unis), \miː.ˈtuː\ (Royaume-Uni)

  1. (Populaire) Dire que c’est le cas aussi pour soi-même.
    • Instead, when the rest of the rubber-stamp governors were me-tooing the President, he arose and delivered himself somewhat in this fashion: The great majority of people in Maryland believe the Volstead Act simply cannot be enforced there.  (Henry Louis Mencken, The American Mercury, vol. 7, 1926, p. 184)
    • Incidentally, I have always felt that Governor Dewey conducted his 1948 campaign in the only way he could have to win. All the Republicans who accused him of losing because he “me-tooed” Truman and the Democrats were talking out of the folly of misdirected hindsight.  (George Edward Allen, Presidents Who Have Known Me, 1950)
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