Re: OT: French/English etymology question: "sauf"/"save"

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> [...] tennis (in that the opponents are in front of each other [...]
ObMeta:  This is an interesting idiom: is it the usual French expression?
It is illogical on its face: if A is in front of B, B cannot be in front
of A, assuming a single reference frame.  Therefore, what is meant must be
that the opponents are each in front of the other in their own reference
frames, a very different way of looking at it.

(The actual English idiom is "facing each other".)

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