French term
Pour tout bonjour,
| 4 +8 | As sole greeting//Without a word of greeting |
polyglot45
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| 3 +2 | By way of welcome |
Marco Solinas
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| 3 +1 | For starters/As a kick-off |
David Hollywood
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| 4 -1 | me |
Meheza Nabede
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Proposed translations
Native in: English 
, French
Works in: English to French, French to English, German to French, and 4 more.
As sole greeting//Without a word of greeting
a couple of other options for you
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Tony M
11 mins
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Elisabeth Gootjes
: Agree w/ "As sole greeting"
44 mins
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ph-b (X)
1 hr
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Philippa Smith
: Or even "He greeted him with a ..."
1 hr
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B D Finch
2 hrs
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philgoddard
: "As sole greeting" is wrong in my opinion. It doesn't get any relevant hits except one from Russia, which has a habit of leaving out the article.
6 hrs
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I am a Brit and I would say it without an article
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Yolanda Broad
7 hrs
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Sarojini Seeneevassen
: out of the blue
1 day 7 hrs
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Accurate, professional translations
Native in: English , Italian
Works in: Italian to English, French to English
By way of welcome
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Note added at 11 mins (2018-12-12 00:24:02 GMT)
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Or you could recast the sentence: "He greeted him by hitting him..."
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Josephine Cassar
: For starters or by way of welcome but it very much depends on what came before and the effect asker needs to create
6 hrs
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B D Finch
: By way of greeting, not "welcome" as that would only work if the person being hit was visiting the hitter.
11 hrs
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Yolanda Broad
: By way of greeting
15 hrs
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United States
Fast and perfect
Native in: French 
Works in: English to French, French to English, French, and 1 more.
me
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Tony M
: This too-literal translation would not work here — it's a specific idiom.
5 hrs
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worked for int. orgs (IMF, OAS, IDB)
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, German to English
For starters/As a kick-off
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Barbara Cochran, MFA
: I think "to kick things off" works well in this context because it underlines or reflects the violence of the act.
11 hrs
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Tony M
: We don't have enough context to work with, but there is a danger here that this implies too much — that this was only the first of many more acts of violence; whilst that could in fact be the case, we simply don't have enough context to know for sure.
1 day 2 hrs
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