mettre dans l'embarras

i saw this in a dictionary:

"votre question me met dans l'embarras"

it said it's an expression. is this a very common way of saying "i don't know how to answer ur question"?

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Permalink Reply by Chantal Savignat on March 9, 2018 at 8:31pm

Hello Alan,

it doesn't exactly means "i don't know how to answer ur question". it's rather "I have a trouble with your question".

Maybe it's because i don't know how to answer, but possible because I don't want to answer.

And yes it's used. Not every days. more often in politic talk show. (When a reporter ask a politician "how many money do you need for your project ? ... )

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Permalink Reply by alan gould on March 9, 2018 at 10:44pm

thanks. it's essentially the same as in english. as u pointed out, we don't know what the person who says it really means. maybe they just don't want to answer the question. or maybe it's a question that warrants a full explanation and u can't answer it briefly. so of course there are many times when people have to say "i don't know how to answer ur question"