Accent you could cut with a knife

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Johnyxxx

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Hello,

Does the sentence sound natural?

"He comes from France, but his English is perfect, no accent you could cut with a knife."

Thanks a lot.
 

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No. You can describe a heavy, hard-to-understand accent as being so thick you could cut it with a knife. You wouldn't use that expression, even with a negative, to describe the absence of an accent.
 

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The only way I would combine the phrase with a negative would be in something like "Unlike many of his compatriots, he does not have an accent you could cut with a knife."
 
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