in passing
Prepositional phrase
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Prepositional phrase
- Incidentally; as a brief diversion from another topic etc.
- We mostly talked about his mother's illness, but he told me in passing that he'd won a small prize in the lottery.
- French: en passant
- German: beiläufig; nebenbei; zwischen Tür und Angel
- Portuguese: de passagem
- Russian: мимохо́дом
- Spanish: de pasada
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