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réclamer à corps et à cris

English translation: digging in your heels about

20:12 Oct 25, 2011
French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / Romance Novel
French term or phrase: réclamer à corps et à cris
Contexte:

Inutile de **réclamer à corps et à cris** une réception simple, avec pour invités quelques amis triés sur le volet, puisque Madame Servan avait décidé que le mariage de son fils se feterait en grande pompe.

"Clamor for?"

Merci,

Barbara
Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 11:54
English translation:digging in your heels about
Explanation:
another suggestion would be 'being hell bent on'
or more literally 'doggedly insisting on'
Selected response from:

Sarita Mardon
Local time: 17:54
Grading comment
Certainly the best choice given the rest of my translated context.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3to clamor for...
piazza d
4kicking and screaming
AllegroTrans
4digging in your heels about
Sarita Mardon
3 +1to loudly insist on / plead for
Kelly Harrison
4to clamour for with hue and cry/to outcry
Gad Kohenov
4to yell and scream for
emiledgar
3Useless to throw a tantrum/have a fit/rave and rant
Verginia Ophof
3trying to insist on/begging for
polyglot45
3(desperately) holding out for /pleading for
Michaela O'Connor (X)


  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
kicking and screaming


Explanation:
no good kicking and screaming.....

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AllegroTrans
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:54
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 115
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Useless to throw a tantrum/have a fit/rave and rant


Explanation:
Useless to throw a tantrum/rave and rant/have a fit about wanting a small.....

Verginia Ophof
Belize
Local time: 09:54
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 53
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27 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
réclamer à cor et à cris
to clamor for...


Explanation:
Harrap's dictionary

piazza d
France
Local time: 17:54
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: French

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jennifer White: http://dictionary.reverso.net/french-english/réclamer à cor ...
13 mins
  -> thank you!
agree  Theodora OB: 'clamour' if it's in English rather than American
10 hrs
  -> Thank you
agree  Karen Vincent-Jones (X): Yes, I think this is the most elegant solution.
14 hrs
  -> thank you!
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28 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
digging in your heels about


Explanation:
another suggestion would be 'being hell bent on'
or more literally 'doggedly insisting on'

Sarita Mardon
Local time: 17:54
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Certainly the best choice given the rest of my translated context.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
to loudly insist on / plead for


Explanation:
My suggestions..

Example sentence(s):
  • Useless to (try and?) loudly insist on a simple reception
  • Useless pleading for a simple reception
Kelly Harrison
France
Local time: 17:54
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Michaela O'Connor (X): I like both of these.
1 day 13 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
réclamer à cor et à cri
to clamour for with hue and cry/to outcry


Explanation:
Cor and cri are singular.
From the Cassell's French<>English dictionary.

Gad Kohenov
Israel
Local time: 18:54
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in HebrewHebrew
PRO pts in category: 4
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
trying to insist on/begging for


Explanation:
and more...

polyglot45
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 227
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
to yell and scream for


Explanation:
another possibility

emiledgar
Belgium
Local time: 17:54
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 125
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1 day 15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
(desperately) holding out for /pleading for


Explanation:
I like "clamouring" and "begging" too, but these could be (slightly quieter) alternatives. Maybe it's just me but clamouring has a sort of connotation of childishness somehow.

Michaela O'Connor (X)
Switzerland
Local time: 17:54
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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