Phrase info

je ne sais quoi

Speech parts

1. je ne sais quoi - Noun

2. je ne sais quoi - Phrase

Meaning

something indescribable

Source: WordNet

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Examples

It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home. James Thurber

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