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started to hit too close to home

French translation: a pris une dimension trop personnelle

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English term or phrase:started to hit too close to home
French translation:a pris une dimension trop personnelle
Entered by: Marion Delarue

08:12 May 3, 2017
English to French translations [PRO]
Management / Digital detox
English term or phrase: started to hit too close to home
He recently wrote a 6,000-word essay on how his addiction to news and online information broke his health. In his last year of publishing multiple posts a day, he fought four bronchial infections and his own joke about the Internet causing death started to hit too close to home. He wrote:
If the internet killed you, I used to joke, then I would be the first to find out. Years later, the joke was running thin.
Marion Delarue
France
Local time: 15:45
a pris une dimension trop personnelle
Explanation:
ou encore
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polyglot45
Grading comment
Merci !
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +7a pris une dimension trop personnelle
polyglot45
3 +2commençait à avoir tendance à trop s'appliquer à lui-même.
david henrion
3 +2devenait sa propre réalité
Solen Fillatre
3commençait à devenir réalité
Isabelle Cluzel
3Commençait à le toucher personnellement / de près
ML1706


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
commençait à devenir réalité


Explanation:
idée

Isabelle Cluzel
France
Local time: 15:45
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
commençait à avoir tendance à trop s'appliquer à lui-même.


Explanation:
ma 1ère lecture.

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Note added at 4 minutes (2017-05-03 08:16:52 GMT)
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mais je vous l'accorde, ça manque de concision !

david henrion
France
Local time: 15:45
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  José Patrício: Fig. affecting one personally and intimately. Her remarks were a bit too close to home - http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/hit close to home
7 mins
agree  Daryo
1 hr
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51 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Commençait à le toucher personnellement / de près


Explanation:
Cela me semble une traduction appropriée

ML1706
Spain
Local time: 15:45
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Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
devenait sa propre réalité


Explanation:
x

Solen Fillatre
France
Local time: 15:45
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Hélène OShea
3 mins
agree  Isabelle Cluzel: ah oui, j'aime bien comme ça
6 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +7
a pris une dimension trop personnelle


Explanation:
ou encore

polyglot45
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 58
Grading comment
Merci !

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  FX Fraipont (X)
1 min
agree  writeaway
10 mins
agree  sporran
29 mins
agree  Victoria Britten
38 mins
agree  Solen Fillatre
2 hrs
agree  Hélène OShea
2 hrs
agree  Annie Rigler
2 hrs
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