Talk:entrer comme un gant

RFV discussion: December 2019–March 2020
The idiom is. This doesn't make sense. Used by Zola, commented by the TLFi, but I don't find anything else. Canonicalization (talk) 09:43, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Another use. Canonicalization (talk) 09:45, 16 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete (d). It looks like there is some serious confusion here as to what the collocation means. There are many idiomatic uses involving comme un gant presented in the entry There is souple comme un gant “supple as a glove”, that is, very pliant or lithe, and also a sense, labelled rare, where it functions as an adverb with the meaning “facilely”. An example given is vous chantez comme un gant – I’m not sure I’d take being told I sing as a glove as a compliment. In another example of this sense the adverb modifies the verb aller: ... dans la parfumerie où tout va comme un gant. Although Le Trésor presents the Zola use separately, as an alteration of entrer comme dans un gant, it appears to me that this also fits this sense quite well: C'est tout mon pied, ça entre facilement. The verb  here does not mean “to fit”; it is about Mother Fétu’s feet slipping into (entering) the boots so easily. Same with the other cite with the intrusive garden. It seems to me that this adverbial use is sufficiently unrare that it merits an entry.  --Lambiam 12:54, 16 December 2019 (UTC)


 * RFV-deleted. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 22:06, 28 March 2020 (UTC)