Talk:être dans les transes

RFV discussion: February 2021
"to be shaking in one's boots; to be very afraid" PUC – 12:55, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * A few uses: ; ; ; (with typo); ; . May be archaic or obsolete.  --Lambiam 17:20, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * @Lambiam: All of these are attesting, which is indeed mentioned at Not an expression I'm familiar with, but maybe it's literary rather than archaic. I note also that the TLFi entry says that  in the plural means "fear, anxiety" (not a sense I'm familiar with either), so this may be SOP. PUC – 17:38, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Funny (in both senses): I must have searched for “étai(en)t dans les transes”, changing the challenged version without noticing it to something that sounded more plausible. I think that the entry is simply misspelled. --Lambiam 18:57, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Académie 8 gives "apprehension, dread, fright, fear" as the primary sense and "entranced, mesmerized" as the secondary sense. However, I do think that "être dans des transes" is an idiomatic expression per and French Wiktionary. I've updated transe. Hope this helps. Languageseeker (talk) 02:19, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
 * "entranced, mesmerized" is an adjective definition.__Gamren (talk) 09:31, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
 * You're absolutely right. Mea Culpa. Fixed Languageseeker (talk) 11:59, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
 * The expression presented at Linternaute.com is être dans les transes. French Wiktionary has the usex dans des transes impossibles à exprimer, in which the postpositive attribute blocks the use of the definite article. --Lambiam 12:41, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
 * You have an eagle-eye. The original author misspelled the expression and I moved it. We can still debate whether or not to keep it, but it should be in the right place. Languageseeker (talk) 13:08, 2 February 2021 (UTC)