false dawn
Étymologie
[modifier le wikicode]- Calque de l’arabe صُبْح كَاذِب, ṣubḥ kāḏib.
Locution nominale
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- (Astronomie) Lumière zodiacale.
The moon was low down, and there was just the glimmer of the false dawn that comes about an hour before the real one.
— (Joseph Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills, 1888)
- (Sens figuré) Chose causant un espoir prématuré, signe prometteur ne débouchant finalement sur rien ; faux espoir.
As Congo nears the 50th anniversary of its independence from Belgium on June 30th, Mr Chebeya’s murky death suggests that 2006 was a false dawn.
— (« It could be a cover-up », dans The Economist, 2010)This, it must be stressed, is not to mark Arsenal out as potential Premier League winners or acclaim them as the finished product - there have been false dawns before, under both current manager Mikel Arteta and his predecessor Unai Emery.
— (Phil McNulty, Arsenal 3–1 Tottenham: Gunners show identity & direction in outstanding derby win, BBC Sport, 1er octobre 2022)After decades of false dawns, the impending creation of Great British Railways, dovetailing with a new government and the need to address the climate crisis much more seriously, offers a new opportunity to create a viable plan for electrifying more of the British rail network.
— (Ben Johnes, « Power cut: Britain’s missed opportunities », dans RAIL, no 1015, 2024, page 33)
Synonymes
[modifier le wikicode]Lumière zodiacale :
Voir aussi
[modifier le wikicode]- Zodiacal light sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)
Références
[modifier le wikicode]- Cette page utilise des informations de l’article du Wiktionnaire en anglais, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 : false dawn. (liste des auteurs et autrices)