Apres moi le deluge
after me, the deluge (attributed to Louis XV, adapted from après nous le déluge “after us the deluge,” credited to Madame de Pompadour: said in reference to signs of the approaching Revolution).
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a brand of .
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v. 1690s, “to bask in the sun,” from Latin apricatus, past participle of apricari “to bask in the sun,” from apricus “exposed” (to the sun); perhaps contracted from *apericus, from aperire “to open.” Transitive sense is recorded from 1851.
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- April
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