"Sound a false note" nghĩa là gì?

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'Sound a false note' = nghe như một nốt sai -> chỉ ra hay tạo ấn tượng có gì đó sai sai, không thành thật, dối trá.

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This bleak (ảm đạm) picture seems to sound a false note given the government’s claims that Argentina has one of the lowest poverty rates in the world.

Fellow Chaser Chris Taylor said the language of the sketch "didn't sound a false note at all" to himself and others in the group. "Tonally it was probably an unwise thing to put to air, but comedically (một cách hài hước) I'm still very comfortable with that piece."

These essays are, remarkably, anchored (neo, hỗ trợ) in deft (khéo léo) readings of Baldwin’s (primarily later) works, but they also occasionally veer (đổi hướng) into present-time arguments that sound a false note, as with Pavlić’s shrill (chói tai) objections to Daphne Brooks’s critique of how Winehouse appropriated black women’s embodied performance modes.

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