garde

the avant-garde

Collectively, the artists of a particular era, medium, genre, etc., who represent the most innovate practitioners of that particular art form. He was a member of the avant-garde in Paris, but became disillusioned with the constant quest for original ideas.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • the avant-garde
  • come across as (someone or something)
  • always the bridesmaid
  • always the bridesmaid, never the bride
  • bride
  • bridesmaid
  • come across like
  • come across like (someone or something)
  • come across as (something) to (one)
  • particular
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Garde's body was found after her employers went looking for dog food in the basement around 11:45 a.m.
Garde also wanted Monaco's Jeremy Toulalan as he identified a weakness in the midfield and to add rub salt into the wound, a deal for Croatian goalkeeper Lovre Kalinic fell through because of work permit issues.
NO REMIDY: Remi Garde after losing at Swansea yesterday
Even though Hollis is making contingency plans, it could even be the case that Garde quits before the end of the season, avoiding the stain of relegation on his CV.
Both Garde and chief executive Tom Fox have recently reiterated that the Frenchman will remain in charge at Villa next season regardless of how the current campaign pans out.
"I've got a lot of admiration because I realise how tough this job is in the Premier League, how difficult it is to keep a job and get results,"said Garde.
There was a huge clamour for Garde in January when Newcastle held their only meeting with the former Lyon boss.
The Villa owner wants Garde to succeed Tim Sherwood but the deal has stalled with Lyon reluctant to let the Frenchman's former assistants Bruno Genesio and Gerald Baticle go.
Le MI qualifie ces pratiques d'escroquerie et met en garde contre ces gens qui s'y adonnent, et invite toutes les personnes victimes de ce genre d'escroquerie de contacter immediatement les services de securite.
Selon l'agence de presse SPA, le souverain saoudien a promulgue "un decret royal en vertu duquel le commandement de la Garde nationale devient ministere (de la Garde nationale) et nomme le prince Mitb Ben Abdallah Ben Abdelaziz Al-Saoud, a la tete de ce nouveau ministere".
Le derapage securitaire a donc pousse plusieurs Egyptiens a chercher un moyen efficace pour se proteger, et ont alors choisi d'acheter des chiens pour assurer la garde de leurs maisons contre les assauts des criminels.
He is intrinsically avant garde, a terre I would somehow hesitate to pin to the equally but differently progressive Neumeier.
The emblematic event in this context is the Views From the Avant Garde program presented as part of the New York Film Festival, resuscitated in 1996 and now a prestigious affair.
Richard Bodek looks at agitprop from many angles: its social roots among young unemployed Berlin proletarians; its (repudiated) politico-cultural heritage in Social Democratic performing groups; its daily operation and the sensibilities of its participants; finally, its penetration of avant garde culture via the drama of Bertolt Brecht.