“Kenneth: If you’re so hot, you'd better tell me how to say she has ideas above her station.
Brian: Oh, yes, I forgot. It's fairly easy, old boy. Elle a des idées au-dessus de sa gare.”

—  Terence Rattigan, French Without Tears

French Without Tears, Act I. (1937).

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