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It was an exercise for the CPE exam. The sentence had to have the same meaning of the following one: "Jackson had the feeling that he wasn't ... Forums Dictionarysearch:  English-Spanish English-French English-Italian English-German English-Dutch English-Russian English-Portuguese English-Polish English-Romanian English-Swedish English-Czech English-Greek English-Turkish English-Chinese English-Japanese English-Korean English-Arabic Spanish-English French-English Italian-English German-English Dutch-English Russian-English Portuguese-English Polish-English Romanian-English Swedish-English Czech-English Greek-English Turkish-English Chinese-English Japanese-English Korean-English Arabic-English Spanish-French Spanish-Portuguese Spanish-Catalan French-Spanish Portuguese-Spanish Englishdefinition Englishsynonyms Englishcollocations Englishusage Italiandefinition Spanishdefinition Spanishsynonyms Catalandefinition Spanish French Italian Login Register What'snew Search Rules/Help/FAQ Members InterfaceLanguage Menu Login Register Installtheapp Install EnglishOnly EnglishOnly Youareusinganoutofdatebrowser.Itmaynotdisplaythisorotherwebsitescorrectly.Youshouldupgradeoruseanalternativebrowser. Tobeundernoimpressionthat... Threadstarter FelixMonty Startdate Dec12,2019 FelixMonty NewMember Italian Helloguys,Ihaveaquestionforyou: Can"beundertheimpressionthathewasn't"beequivalentto"beundernoimpressionthathewas"?orisitjustamatterofcollocation? Thankyouinadvance   velisarius SeniorMember Greece BritishEnglish(Sussex) Itcanbe,thoughI'dprefertheequivalent"wasnotundertheimpressionthathewas".Therewouldprobablybeadifferenceofemphasis,butwithoutcontextIcan'treallysay. Canyougiveusacompletesentence,Felix?Andwelcometotheforum.   FelixMonty NewMember Italian Thankyouforyourcontribution! ItwasanexercisefortheCPEexam. Thesentencehadtohavethesamemeaningofthefollowingone:"Jacksonhadthefeelingthathewasn'ttellingthetruth" Wehadtousetheterm"IMPRESSION" AndIwrote"Jacksonwasundernoimpressionthathewastellingthetruth". Ijustwantedtoknowifforyouthatsoundsoddornot. Thankyouagain   velisarius SeniorMember Greece BritishEnglish(Sussex) Jacksonhadthefeelingthathewasn'ttellingthetruth.(Jacksoncouldnotbesure,buthesuspectedthat"he"wasn'ttellingthetruth.) Youmighthavewritten"Jacksonhad/gottheimpressionthathewasn'ttellingthetruth". Sorry,butyourversiondoessoundoddanditalsoratherdistortsthemeaningoftheoriginal.Wecan"beundertheimpressionthatsomethingistrue/nottrue",butthenegativesoundsweird. Jacksonwasundertheimpressionthathewasnottellingthetruth.   lingobingo SeniorMember London English-England Theidiomsare: tobeundertheimpressionthat…(tobelieveit) tobeundernoillusionthat…(torealisethatit’snottrue)   A ain'ttranslationfun? SeniorMember USEnglish Benvenuto,FelixMonty! Iagreewithvelisariusandlingobingo.   Youmustloginorregistertoreplyhere. Share: Facebook Twitter Reddit WhatsApp Email Share Link EnglishOnly EnglishOnly Top