ანოტაცია: Desperate for le mot juste? Tortured by l'esprit de l'escalier? This little book is a chef d'oeuvre to guide you through the embarras de richesse of words and phrases borrowed into English from the French. English is the richest language in the world - throughout history it has assimilated words from other lands - and has a word for almost everything, but still we pilfer words and phrases from the French.