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‖ cherchez la femme|ʃɛrʃe la fam|
Also chercher la femme.
[Fr., lit. ‘seek the woman’.]
A catch-phrase, first used (in the form cherchons la femme) by Alexandre Dumas père in his Les Mohicans de Paris (1864), used to indicate that the key to a problem or mystery is a woman, and that she need only be found for the matter to be solved.
[1878J. Latey tr. Dumas' Mohicans of Paris lxxxv. 235 Ah! Monsieur Jackal, you were right when you said, ‘Seek the woman.’] 1893‘S. Grand’ Heavenly Twins I. ii. i. 218 In bygone days when there was mischief afoot the principle used to be, chercher la femme, and when she was found the investigation stopped there. 1898G. B. Shaw Philanderer i. 95 Theres a quarrel—a scandal—cherchez la femme—always a woman at the bottom of it. 1967‘E. Peters’ Black is Colour v. 100 ‘There's always the classic way,’ said Duckett disgustedly. ‘Cherchez la femme!’ |