follow on

faire suite, succéder

Se produire après un autre événement, souvent dans son prolongement.

En anglais simple : To happen next, often continuing something that happened earlier.

• Another meeting will follow on next week.
• The second film follows on from the first.
• Several useful ideas followed on from that conversation.

Comment l'utiliser : follow on from something (This chapter follows on from our earlier discussion.)

Synonymes : follow, succeed, come next

Contraires : precede

Expressions courantes : follow on from something, follow on naturally, follow on later

enchaîner sa seconde manche

Au cricket, jouer la deuxième manche de son équipe à la batte immédiatement après la première.

En anglais simple : In cricket, to take your team's second turn at batting immediately after its first.

• The visitors had to follow on.
• Their captain asked the other team to follow on.
• Despite following on, the team saved the match.

Comment l'utiliser : be made to follow on (The visitors were made to follow on after scoring only 140.)

Expressions courantes : follow on again, forced to follow on, asked to follow on