‖ à la page
(alapaʒ)
[Fr., lit. ‘at the page’; être à la page, to be up to date.]
Up to date, up to the minute.
| 1936 A. Huxley Eyeless in Gaza ii. 12 His awful suspicions that people are beginning to find him a bore, no longer à la page. 1948 Mind LVII. 522 These vagaries were in a sense useful, because they put Campanella more à la page than ever. 1961 Times 14 Feb. 6/7 In medieval times..ladies ‘thought it indispensable’ to carry small pocket mirrors kept in shallow circular lidded boxes (which sounds à-la-page today). 1963 Sunday Express 6 Oct. 19/2 To be really à la page, which is how the girls in Paris are at the moment, invest also in a small chunky handbag. |