prendre à la légère — meaning in English
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English meaning
- overlook verb To fail to notice something, or to miss it despite it being there.
Senses
prendre à la légère is used for these senses in English:
- make light of (idiomatic) To regard without due seriousness; to joke about.
- overlook (archaic) To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.
- take lightly (idiomatic, transitive, chiefly in the negative) To treat casually, without seriousness or worry.
overlook — full definition
- verb To fail to notice something, or to miss it despite it being there.
- verb To choose not to hold something against someone; to let a mistake pass without punishing it.
- verb To have a view down over something from a higher position.
- noun A point or spot that gives a wide view down over an area.