in lieu of sympathy
French translation: à la place de fleurs et couronnes
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| 22:27 Jan 8, 2016 |
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|  Selected response from: Tony M France Local time: 04:07 | ||||||
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| 1 +5 | à la place de fleurs et couronnes |
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| 4 -1 | au lieu de condoléances |
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| 4 -1 | à la place de fleurs de condoléances ou de félicitations |
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Answers
8 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +5
peer agreement (net): +5| in lieu of sympathy flowers à la place de fleurs et couronnes Explanation: You are parsing it incorrectly , it is 'sympathy flowers' (and 'congratulatory flowers') Usually, 'sympathy flowers' would be = 'floral tributes' when someone dies; however, there is just a possibility that here it might mean flowers out of sympathy when someone is ill etc. — but I somehow doubt that the word 'sympathy' would be used for that, as it has so much of a connotation of funerals etc. |
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