illico presto
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i.li.ko pʁɛs.to/
Adverb
illico presto
- (colloquial, emphatic) pronto, right away
- 1997, MC Solaar (lyrics and music), “Illico presto”, in Paradisiaque:
- Tout est dit dans Umberto Eco / J’ai besoin de vrai love illico presto / vrai love, illico presto
- Everything is said in Umberto Eco / I need real love, right away / real love, right now
- 2016, Gaël Faye, Petit Pays [Small Country]:
- Je suis passé sur le billard, on m'a recousu et je suis revenu ici illico presto.
- I went under the surgeon's knife, they sewed me back up and I came back here right away.
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Further reading
- “illico presto”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.