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1
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Short lived

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Éphémère

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To turn into

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Virer à

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3
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To swirl

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Tournoyer

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To spread out

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Déployer

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Rainbow

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L’arc-en-ciel

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To build castles in the air (make plans that have very little chance of happening)

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Bâtir des châteaux en Espagne

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7
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To get on someone’s nerves

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Casser les pieds de qqn

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To be kept waiting/ hanging around

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Faire le poireau

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To be in the know/ really into sth

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Être branché qqc

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It’s raining cats and dogs

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Il tombe des hallebardes

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It’s not asking the impossible

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Ce n’est pas la mer à boire

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12
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To sit in the fence

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Ménager la chèvre et le chou

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13
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When pigs fly

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Quand les poules auront des dents

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14
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Preference/ choice

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La prédilection

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15
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To deal a blow

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Assener le coup

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16
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Tightly bunched

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Dans un mouchoir de poche

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17
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Market sector

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Le segment de marché

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18
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Muscular/ built

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Baraqué

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19
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Merciful

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Miséricordieux

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To want the best for

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Vouloir du bien à

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21
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To give up sth

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Renoncer à

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22
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Publishing house

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La maison d’édition

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23
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Within easy reach

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À portée de main

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24
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The fact remains that

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Il n’en demeure pas moins que

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Major/ dominant
Prépondérant
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To roam / wander
Errer
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Tossed around/ shunted back and forth
Ballotté
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To the great displeasure of
Au grand dam de
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A round up
Une rafle
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colllaborator (pej)
un collabo
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chief of police
le commissaire de police
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to take someone
emmener
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to pile up
entasser
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proof
un justificatif
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to entertain/amuse
distraire
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hold, grip, influence
une emprise
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moulds/models
le moulage
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ethnic cleansing
le nettoyage ethnique
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decree/ruling
une ordonnance
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to upset, pain
faire mal au coeur à qqn
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time zone
un fuseau horaire
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to indulge in
se livrer à
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to drag
trainer
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Deprive of
démuni de
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to converge/come together
affluer
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scapegoat
un bouc-émissaire
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in search of
en quete de
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tide
la marée
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estate
la cité
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social housing
le HLM
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for lack of
faute de
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citizens, expats
les ressortissants
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To dispossess
Spoiler
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Dispossession
La spoliation
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Decree
Une ordonnance
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hastily
à la sauvette
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hardships
privations
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to shave
tondre
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a favour
un service rendu
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hard, tough
rude
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to be in tune with
etre en phase avec
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to set up one's own company
monter sa propre boite
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irregular, fragmented
discontinu
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Swanky, posh
Huppé
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to drown, mask in
noyer qqc dans qqc
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Fussy
Pointilleux
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to subdue/quell
mater
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resistant/defiant to
réfractaire à
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to hide, conceal
dissimuler
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through, by the means of
par le biais de
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frizzy
crépu
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fluffy (cake, mash)
léger
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to come to mind
venir à l'esprit
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scaffold
l'échaufaud
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stage
l'éstrade
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square
le parvis
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chunky (person)
trepu
78
tonsils
les amygdales
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to sketch, outline | to begin, go to do
esquisser
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to take shape, come together
s'esquisser
81
humiliation, affront
un camouflet
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To laugh in the face of sth
Faire fi de qqc

French adv (20 decks)

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