Show how it started by JEAN NEWTON savoir faire TUIS Is one of the most popular ol 01 foreign phrases which have found a permanent and popular place in our language that Is it Is one of those expressions that Is so frequently used with practically no consciousness that it Is foreign that it may really be said to have a place in oui language 1 when a person Is said to have savoir dalre we mean he has poise tact the ability to make himself at home anywhere and to handle any situation in which be finds himself the trench words savoir dalre mean literally to know how to do and their first recorded use in the general and broader sense in which we now find them constantly in eng elsh context Is in sir walter scotts guy mannering published in bell service |