Citation de caryatide
Je m'amuse à relire la V.O et...
"I may have got the term wrong, she murmured. I am not very clever about américanisms - and I understand they change very quickly. I got it from one of Mr Dashiel Hammett's stories. (I understand from my nephew Raymond that he is considered at the top of the tree in what is called the "tough" style of literature) A fall guy, if I understand it rightly, means someone who will be blamed for a crime really committed by someon else.
(pour nous tous qui pensions que Miss Marple, c'était uniquement thé, tricot et papotage, eh bien elle lit et cite Dashiel Hammett...
les traducteurs nous cachent décidément beaucoup de choses...)
"I may have got the term wrong, she murmured. I am not very clever about américanisms - and I understand they change very quickly. I got it from one of Mr Dashiel Hammett's stories. (I understand from my nephew Raymond that he is considered at the top of the tree in what is called the "tough" style of literature) A fall guy, if I understand it rightly, means someone who will be blamed for a crime really committed by someon else.
(pour nous tous qui pensions que Miss Marple, c'était uniquement thé, tricot et papotage, eh bien elle lit et cite Dashiel Hammett...
les traducteurs nous cachent décidément beaucoup de choses...)
