English Translation
I don’t know what that’s all about.
what exactly does ‘retourner’ mean here? I don’t see a obvious figurative definition in wiktionary.
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My dictionary has an entry for it:
D impersonal verb
▸ j’aimerais savoir de quoi il retourne
I’d like to know what’s going on
To my mind, the main sense of retourner is turning around something. If you do a complete circle you capture the surrounding area: its environment, that is, everything about it. As in “What’s going on, what’s it all about?”
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