Franglais of French into English. However, in this context, the correct translation of is 'heavens...!' In Monty Python's 1975 movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", the French castle guard (John Cleese) orders, when King Arthur (Graham Chapman) doesn't want to go away, his fellow guards to ""Fetchez la vache."". The other French guards respond with "" and he repeats ""Fetchez la vache!"". The guards finally get it: fetch ('the cow'), which they then catapult at the Britons. In French, refers to the use of English words sometimes regarded as unwelcome imports or as bad slang. An example would be (also
Animal magnetism Among many lectures warning society against government oppression, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote: William Pitt, the great political Animal Magnetist, ... has most foully worked on the diseased fancy of Englishmen ... thrown the nation into a feverish slumber, and is now bringing it to a crisis which may convulse mortality! In his article "Under the Influence: Mesmerism in England", Roy Porter notes that James Tilly Matthews suggested that the French were infiltrating England via animal magnetism. Matthews believed that "magnetic spies" would invade England and bring it under subjection by transmitting waves of animal magnetism to subdue the government and