Tu ne t'en sortiras pas avec moi !

Sentence Discussions French
#1
English Translation

You won’t have your way with me!

Il arrivera toujours à s’en sortir = He will always manage to get by.
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I’m not sure what the best English translation would be of the the French statement (Tu ne t’en sortiras pas avec moi !). Maybe, “you won’t get away with this“ ?

The English statement, “You won’t have your way with me“ has (in the midwest USA), a sexual connotation, such as force or strong seduction of a much younger or more innocent person. It is an old-fashioned way of saying it. (You might hear someone say it jokingly but I have never heard it said seriously.) Does the French sentence have this type of connotation? Thanks in advance.

#2

I don’t think it necessarily has a sexual connotation in french. I’m not sure what an idiomatic way of saying this in english would be; the general meaning is “I see/know what you are trying and it won’t work with me”

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#3

If you say “you won’t have your way with me“ in the midwest USA, that is typically how it would be interpreted. I don’t know about England or other English-speaking countries.