de trop

Even out here, it would seem, his presence was de trop.

For others, anything more formal than a shirt and pants would be de trop.

Or as the French might say, it is simply de trop, a black mark against one's good standing in the social register.

It may be de trop to punish this President with impeachment or resignation.

"Your mother would always feel she was de trop before she was."

And ending a marriage just for the sake of a roll in the hay is definitely de trop.

Reggie was a good chap, but he would undoubtedly have been de trop at this reunion.

A man might have felt de trop.

The evening was, as the French say, de trop, even by Bloomingdale's standards.

A more sensitive man than Canon Prescott might have felt that he was de trop.

"Surely I shall be very much de trop?"

"My pleasure, Countess," she politely said, feeling very large suddenly and vastly de trop.

I felt I would be excessively de trop.

Celia, standing uncertainly at the door of the nursery while her son was finishing his bottle, had been feeling rather de trop.

"I seem to be de trop.

In most houses, a bath towel just won't do and a negligee is distinctly de trop.

That line was taken, here, by two mimes who enacted a skit: perhaps de trop, certainly diverting.

Merlot is, as they say, de trop.

That, no doubt, explained the odd impression I had of being de trop here, a sort of gate-crasher.

Any critiques are de trop.

Nipples may be biologically de trop for men, an "expert" on the site notes, but that doesn't mean they resulted from natural selection.

She did this when she had no grasp of a conversation or no understanding of a situation and felt herself de trop.

They easily become "de trop."

Are the crisps are de trop?

-' But I must force myself from these episodes, though my dearest Esther will not think them de trop.