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What is the difference between a marque and a brand? For example, why would one use the expression "car marques" instead of "car brands"?
What is the difference between a marque and a brand? For example, why would one use the expression "car marques" instead of "car brands"?
The typical American marquee is a large, three-sided sign extending to the street in front of the entrance to a cinema, theater, or other entertainment venue. That the sign lights the entrance.
According to my wife, who is trained in Art History, this is a marquee piece from the word marquee meaning a sign placed at the entrance of a building.
Understanding the Context
It sounds as though this is a difference between American and British English. Or, more precisely, someone should confirm that this is a difference in American and British English, because if it is so,.
Years ago I had this English teacher (from UK) who asked us to translate American Pie to Swedish. A quite difficult task of course :). Anyhow, he told us that "Drove my Chevy to the levy.
A good way of accessing an intuition about this is imagine if everything that went on in a room was projected onto a wall - say an observer is outside a marquee or tent and sees the shadows.
It's used colloquially in sentences like "don't be alarmed", but doesn't actually carry any meaning. Put another way, it doesn't add any content to the sentence. Removing unnecessary words.
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The marquee chef is meant in the sense of a "name" chef who, if he or she were a movie star, would have a name up on the marquee. Wolfgang Puck is an example of a marquee chef. So is Emeril.
What word would you replace butting up against with to convey the figurative meaning of it? Some of guesses are: clashing, colliding, opposing, confronting, defying... Most definitions I found.
Yes, it means they did what was expected. Nothing unusual. "Sticking to the script" means not ad libbing (ad lib, from ad libitum, meaning freely or as you will). It is extremely unlikely that a major public.
