tooing-and-froing

[Serrand]

Hello,

Could you help me to translate this sentence into french :

"But the French Prime Minister Francois Fillon put it down to the usual tooing-and-froing of politics"

Thanks

 

[pieanne]

Pour l'instant je ne trouve que "aléas"

 

[viera]

le va et vient habituel

 

[mally pense]

That seems to me like the wrong way to write this phrase. For certain the "too..." part won't have two 'o's, so it should be either "to-ing and fro-ing" or "toing and froing", though I personally very much prefer the former (i.e. the first option).

The phrase derives from "to and from", as in "come and go", so viera's suggestion sounds like a good possibility.