Toot de toot!
English translation: imitation trumpet fanfare
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| English language (monolingual) [PRO] Cinema, Film, TV, Drama / British English/ slang? idiom? Prime Suspect 1991 | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Alison MacG United Kingdom Local time: 14:57 | ||||||
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| 3 +1 | imitation trumpet fanfare |
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peer agreement (net): +1| toot de toot! imitation trumpet fanfare Explanation: The ITV subtitles for this episode give this as Toot-te-toot! I think this is meant as an imitation trumpet fanfare, used in the same way as a drum roll or the exclamation ta-da as the prelude to an impressive entrance, dramatic announcement or joke punchline. An example of this usage: NOUN MARKERS This is the term for the three adjectives "a", "an" and "the". When I introduce these to the students, I first make my hand into a trumpet, " Toot-te-toot", and then announce, "Noun coming!!!!!!" Students quickly get the idea, and we move on to other things. Young students especially love the drama of the hand trumpet and seem to remember these three little words when they are presented in this fashion. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JMIB6IfLwusC&newbks=1&ne... |
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| Reference: Meaning of "toot" Reference information: I found the meaning of "toot" in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English: https://imgbox.com/OZEJvgIr |
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