on the surface
Étymologie
[modifier le wikicode]- Étymologie manquante ou incomplète. Si vous la connaissez, vous pouvez l’ajouter en cliquant ici.
Locution adverbiale
[modifier le wikicode]on the surface \Prononciation ?\
- (Sens figuré) À la surface, en surface, de façon superficielle.
On the surface, the film is a globe-trotting gross-out caper in which Nobby, who’s from a hellish version of the titular Lincolnshire town ("twinned with Chernobyl"), is reunited with his long-lost brother Sebastian (Mark Strong), who has become a spy for the British secret services.
— (Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen’s vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), 23 février 2016)