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Question 1

un travail sans perspectives

Answer 1

a dead-end job

Question 2

péjorativement

Answer 2

disparagingly

Question 3

expectedly enough

Answer 3

comme on pouvait s’y attendre

Question 4

En France, on conduit à droite.

Answer 4

In France, people drive on the right-hand side of the road

Question 5

en allant à l’école, elle passait toujours devant l’église

Answer 5

on her way to school, she would always go past the church

Question 6

Il y a 100 ans, les gens n’avaient pas de voiture.

Answer 6

People did not have any cars, 100 years ago

Question 7

sois sympa!

Answer 7

be a sport!

Question 8

le prix (à payer quand on a perdu)

Answer 8

the forfeit

Question 9

chambre d’amis

Answer 9

the spare room

Question 10

raffiné

Answer 10

sofisticated

Question 11

nain

Answer 11

midget

Question 12

? les plus puritains

Answer 12

the purest of the pure

Question 13

porcherie

Answer 13

it’s a pigsty*

Question 14

boue, fumier

Answer 14

the muck

Question 15

courage, cran

Answer 15

spunk

Question 16

maussade, renfrogné

Answer 16

sullen

Question 17

il y a qqch qui ne va pas

Answer 17

there is sth amiss

Question 18

prendre qqch mal

Answer 18

to take sth amiss

Question 19

qch ne ferait pas de mal

Answer 19

sth would not come amiss

Question 20

événement, incident

Answer 20

happening

Question 21

se voir offrir qqch

Answer 21

to be offered

Question 22

descendre dans la rue

Answer 22

to hit the streets

Question 23

bon voyage

Answer 23

have a safe journey

Question 24

répéter bêtement

Answer 24

to parrot

Question 25

prendre qqn de haut

Answer 25

to patronize

Question 26

être client régulier

Answer 26

to patronize

Question 27

vengeur

Answer 27

vengeful

Question 28

coucou

Answer 28

cooee*

Question 29

gouvernante

Answer 29

a housekeeper, a governess

Question 30

carte de voeux

Answer 30

greetings card

Question 31

exaucer le vœux de qqn

Answer 31

to grant sb's wish

Question 32

se méprendre

Answer 32

to be mistaken

Question 33

Peux-tu développer?

Answer 33

Can you elaborate?

Question 34

détaillé, recherché, compliqué

Answer 34

elaborated

Question 35

préciser qqch

Answer 35

to elaborate sth

Question 36

désarroi

Answer 36

the distress

Question 37

un récit

Answer 37

a narrative

Question 38

fichtre

Answer 38

golly, gosh

Question 39

perspicacité

Answer 39

the perception

Question 40

rire au nez de qqn

Answer 40

to laugh at one's face

Question 41

présage

Answer 41

omen

Question 42

oser faire qqch, se permettre

Answer 42

to presume to do sth

Question 43

se fier à

Answer 43

to presume on

Question 44

le beau sexe

Answer 44

the fair sex

Question 45

avoir un tempérament de feu

Answer 45

to be a fiery character, feisty

Question 46

en mettre sa main au faim

Answer 46

to stake your life on it, to bet your bottom dollar on it

Question 47

être à feu et à sang

Answer 47

to be ablaze

Question 48

feu nourri

Answer 48

hail of bullets

Question 49

mettre qqch à feu et à sang

Answer 49

to put sth on fire and sword

Question 50

feu (mort)

Answer 50

late

Question 51

engager la conversation

Answer 51

to strike up a conversation

Question 52

sujet de conversation

Answer 52

a talking point

Question 53

gravier

Answer 53

gravel

Question 54

prendre du poids

Answer 54

to put on weight

Question 55

donner son opinion

Answer 55

to weigh in on

Question 56

accabler qn

Answer 56

to weigh sb down

Question 57

ne pas être entièrement d'accord, s'opposer poliment

Answer 57

to beg to differ

Question 58

un tuyau, un conseil

Answer 58

a tip*

Question 59

renverser, vider qch

Answer 59

to tip sth

Question 60

incrusté

Answer 60

embbeded

Question 61

refiler qqch à qqn

Answer 61

to stick sbdy with sth*

Question 62

Fidèle à sa réputation, il les tua tous (?)

Answer 62

Being Pinochet he had killed all of them

Question 63

un cafard

Answer 63

a cockroach

Question 64

se centrer sur

Answer 64

to zero in on sth

Question 65

baisser ou s'endormir

Answer 65

to drop off

Question 66

tong

Answer 66

a flip-flop

Question 67

revirement, retourner sa veste

Answer 67

a flip-flop

Question 68

cruche

Answer 68

a jug, a pitcher

Question 69

informer qqn de qch

Answer 69

to tip sbdy off to sth

Question 70

Il était très famille

Answer 70

He was a family man till the end

Question 71

prime pour une capture ou une mort

Answer 71

a bounty

Question 72

abondance, la générosité (litt)

Answer 72

the bounty

Question 73

se volatiliser

Answer 73

to disappear into thin air

Question 74

campagnard, rustique

Answer 74

folksy

Question 75

un bance de daupihn

Answer 75

a pod of dolphins

Question 76

se ressembler comme deux gouttes d'eau

Answer 76

like peas in a pod, as alike as two peas in a pod

Question 77

une gousse

Answer 77

a pod

Question 78

être impitoyable

Answer 78

to be hard-nosed

Question 79

serpent à sonnettes

Answer 79

a rattlesnake

Question 80

théâtre

Answer 80

playhouse

Question 81

serré

Answer 81

close-run

Question 82

poulailler

Answer 82

chicken run

Question 83

galop d'essai, répétition

Answer 83

a dry run

Question 84

chauffard coupable de délit de fuite

Answer 84

a hit-and-run driver

Question 85

tirage

Answer 85

print run

Question 86

rediffusion

Answer 86

a re-run

Question 87

ordinaire, banal

Answer 87

run-of-the-mill

Question 88

emmener les enfants à l'école

Answer 88

to do the school run

Question 89

Il n'y a guère de place pour l'originalité

Answer 89

There is not much scope for originality

Question 90

Cela pourrait être beaucoup mieux

Answer 90

There is plenty of scope for improvement

Question 91

dans le cadre de

Answer 91

within the scope of

Question 92

jolie fille

Answer 92

cutie

Question 93

faire une nuit blanche

Answer 93

to stay up all the night

Question 94

susceptible

Answer 94

touchy

Question 95

dernier essai

Answer 95

a shakedown

Question 96

parfum

Answer 96

a scent

Question 97

piste

Answer 97

a scent

Question 98

lancer qn sur une mauvaise piste

Answer 98

to throw sb off the scent

Question 99

loyer

Answer 99

lease payment

Question 100

donner à qn un nouveau souffle

Answer 100

to give sb a new lease on life