Brewer's: Pied de la Lettre

(Au). Quite literally.

“Of course, you will not take everything I have said quite au pied de la lettre.” - Fra. Olloe: A Philosophical Trilogy.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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