Sentence examples of "ganz und gar nicht" in German
Er konnte den entsetzlichen Geruch verfaulender Zwiebeln ganz und gar nicht ertragen.
He could not by any means tolerate the ghastly smell of rotting onion.
Das Mädchen sah immer glücklich aus, aber es war ganz und gar nicht glücklich.
The girl always looked happy, but she wasn't at all happy.
Auf die gleiche Weise mag ein Witz, über den ein Engländer Tränen lachen kann, einem Russen ganz und gar nicht witzig scheinen.
In the same way, a Russian might fail to see anything amusing in a joke which would make an Englishman laugh to tears.
Es ist ganz und gar nichts Seltenes, über neunzig Jahre alt zu werden.
It's not at all rare to live to be over ninety years old.
Hör auf, meine geniale Idee totzureden, das ist gar nicht naiv!
Stop slagging off my brilliant idea, it's not naive at all!
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