Jan 19, 2015 11:20
9 yrs ago
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English term
without so much as requesting the floor
English
Bus/Financial
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
term
The term comes from the sentence like this:" The small task that remains is this: throwing the newspaper down on the boardroom table and then, without so much as requesting the floor, questioning the president's committee," Are we to allow this?"
What does " without so much as requesting the floor" mean?
What does " without so much as requesting the floor" mean?
Change log
Jan 19, 2015 11:37: writeaway changed "Field" from "Art/Literary" to "Bus/Financial" , "Field (specific)" from "Linguistics" to "General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters"
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without even bothering to ask for permission to speak
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you for help!"
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5 mins
Terry Richards
France
France
Native in English
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English
France
30 years in IT, Engineering degree.
Native in: English (Variants: British, UK, US) 
Works in: French to English, English
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120
requesting permission to speak
In formal debate, the person who currently has the right to speak is said to "have the floor".
Peer comment(s):
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writeaway
: without even requesting permission to speak
8 mins
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and I agree with your clarification :)
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| agree |
Danik 2014
10 mins
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| agree |
Manuela Junghans
: with writeaway
12 mins
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| neutral |
Linda Miranda
: "requesting" and "without requesting" are opposite, aren't they?
35 mins
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Yes, I only translated the part of the phrase that I thought was causing problems. See writeaway's clarification above (which I agree with).
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Carol Gullidge
: with writeaway
51 mins
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El oso
: No offence, but I don’t think that the requesting the floor part was causing (could have possibly caused) any problem.
1 hr
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| agree |
AllegroTrans
: without even requesting permission to speak
5 hrs
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| agree |
Yvonne Gallagher
: yes, without...
6 hrs
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3 mins
audience / people sitting
Requesting those who are in the audience. We often hear a speaker say, "Now I will request the floor..."
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Note added at 5 mins (2015-01-19 11:25:45 GMT)
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Without so much as requesting the floor means without requesting the audience.
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Note added at 6 mins (2015-01-19 11:26:37 GMT)
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Without so much as requesting the floor means without asking the audience.
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Note added at 5 mins (2015-01-19 11:25:45 GMT)
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Without so much as requesting the floor means without requesting the audience.
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Note added at 6 mins (2015-01-19 11:26:37 GMT)
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Without so much as requesting the floor means without asking the audience.
Peer comment(s):
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writeaway
: the 'audience' has nothing to do with it. normally it's up to the Chairperson
12 mins
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| disagree |
AllegroTrans
: sorry, this does not make sense and we don't say "people sitting"
5 hrs
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