Translations for „bon mot“ in the English » German Dictionary

bon mot <pl bons mots> [ˌbɔ͂:(m)ˈməʊ, Am ˌbɔ͂:nˈmoʊ] N

bon mot

Bonmot nt form

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

If she picked on everything with a witty bon mot or whatever, fine.

gawker.com

Language barriers are bridged, sometimes with a deftly added bon mot, more often through reliance on physical comedy.

www.montrealgazette.com

Though he denies the bon mot, his approach was apparently wildly successful -- which is more than can be said for his attempts to land a parliamentary seat.

blogs.spectator.co.uk

You were hungry to hear the next bon mot, the impossibly witty epigram, the joke about morris dancing.

www.gq-magazine.co.uk

A mistress of the quip and a markswoman of the bon mot.

news.nationalpost.com

He was the comfortable bourgeois with the knack for the biting and irreverent bon mot.

www.spectator.co.uk

She tends to speak only in philosophical bon mots.

www.theglobeandmail.com

Bon mots fill these pages, every one essential.

www.publishersweekly.com

Do they hide a cogent disagreement or are you just pointing out that in your superiority you can dismiss all ideas, thought, opinion, research with one incredibly witty bon mot?

ww2.kqed.org

Just as well there is no surcharge for his entertaining bon mots because this man is gifted in the gab department.

www.theage.com.au