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19th deck Flashcards

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1
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the sniffing

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le reniflement

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to deny / disown / dissavow / renounce / negate / repudiate / reject / recant

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renier

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How can we adapt to change without turning our backs on the past?

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Comment peut-on s’adapter au changement sans se renier ?

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harsh / hard / rough / tough / severe / strong / stiff / sharp / severe / coarse / brutal

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rude

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a severe test

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la rude épreuve

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tough competition

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la concurrence rude

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to admit (to) / confess (to) / acknowledge / conceide

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avouer qqch

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He admitted that he had not told the truth.

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Il a avoué ne pas avoir dit la vérité.

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Cand o sa zboare porcu’ (expresie echivalenta in franceza):

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Quand les poules auront des dents

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altogether / trully / really

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Bel et bien

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We’ll see!

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On verra bien !

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To take something well

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Prendre la chose bien

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To return good for evil

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Rendre le bien pour le mal

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To do a good job; handle something the right way

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S’y prendre bien

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Big problems require big solutions

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Aux grands maux les grands remèdes.

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(whether you) like it or not

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bon gré mal gré

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people don’t like that

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c’est mal vu

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from bad to worse

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de mal en pis

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to be on bad terms with someone

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être mal avec quelqu’un

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Shame on anyone who thinks evil of it.

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Honi soit qui mal y pense

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not without difficulty

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non sans mal

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you can’t get something for nothing

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on n’a rien sans mal

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to work hard

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se donner du mal

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to bend over backwards to do

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se donne un mal de chien à faire

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to do a bad job; to handle something badly
s'y prendre mal
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to suggest that, to make someone think/believe/understand that
donner à quelqu'un à penser/croire/comprendre que
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to give cause for laughter
donner à rire
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to face north/south
donner au nord/sud
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to run into
donner contre
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to fall right into the trap
donner dans le panneau (informal)
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to hit one's head against something
donner de la tête/du front contre quelque chose
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to devote oneself to
donner de soi-même pour
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to give someone a lot of work or trouble
donner du fil à retordre à quelqu'un
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to give someone goose bumps
donner la chair de poule à quelqu'un
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to sound the alarm
donner l'alarme/l'alerte
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to alleviate suspicion
donner le change
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to tell someone the time
donner l'heure à quelqu'un
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to prove someone right, to side with someone
donner raison à quelqu'un
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to give up (trying to guess)
donner sa langue au chat
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to look out over/onto; to open onto; to overlook
donner sur
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to blame someone, to disagree with someone, to prove wrong
donner tort à quelqu'un
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to give someone a call
donner un coup de fil à quelqu'un (informal)
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to slap
donner une gifle
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to not know which way to turn
ne pas savoir où donner de la tête
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to have no effect
ne rien donner
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He never does anything for nothing.
Avec lui, c'est donnant donnant.
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It's cool! Brilliant!
Ça donne ! (familiar)
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That's what I was led to believe, given to understand
C'est ce qu'on m'a donné à entendre
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fair's fair
donnant donnant
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a gift is a gift
donné c'est donné
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Not everyone in the world is lucky enough to...
Il n'est pas donné à tout le monde de...
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I could kick myself!
Je me donnerais des coups !
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You'll never guess (in a million years)!
Je te le donne en cent/mille (informal)
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You can't tell how old he is.
On ne lui donne pas d'âge.
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The sun is beating down.
Le soleil donne en plein.
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to give oneself airs
se donner de grands airs
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to act like
se donner des airs de
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to give oneself time to do
se donner le temps de faire
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to find the means to do
se donner les moyens de faire
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to exchange blows
se donner des coups
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to have a good/whale of a time
se donner du bon temps
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to call oneself by the name/title of
se donner le nom/titre de
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to claim/profess to be; to make oneself out to be
se donner pour
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to give thanks to
rendre grâces à x
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to give a reason for something
rendre raison de quelque chose à
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to go to
se rendre à
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to bow to someone's advice
se rendre à l'avis de quelqu'un
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to face facts
se rendre à l'evidence
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to comply with orders
se rendre aux ordres
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Just imagine!
Rendez-vous compte!
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Can you imagine?
Tu te rends compte?
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meaningless / pointless / trivial / useless / vain
futile
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a trivial issue
un sujet futile
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to be anxious to
tenir à + infinitive
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to be anxious that
tenir à ce que + subjunctive
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to have on good authority
tenir de bonne source
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to take after someone
tenir de quelqu'un
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to be on the right track
tenir le bon bout
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to hold it against someone for not
tenir rigueur à quelqu'un de ne pas
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to keep an eye on someone
tenir quelqu'un à l'oeil
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it depends on
il tient que
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to help to
aider à
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to amuse oneself ___-ing
s'amuser à
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to get ready to
s'apprêter à
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to buy from
acheter à
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to grab, tear away from
arracher à
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to trust (someone)
se fier à (quelqu'un)
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to shake hands with someone
serrer la main à (quelqu'un)
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(back of the) neck
la nuque
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stiff neck
la nuque raide
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chest / brest / bust
la poitrine
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chest measurement / size
la tour de poitrine
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angina pectoris
l' angine de poitrine (f)
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pork belly
la poitrine de porc
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These pork chops are derived from region of the centre cut loin associated with the lumbar vertebrae
Ces côtelettes sont tirées de la partie du plat de longe associée aux vertèbres lombaires.
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pork loin
longe de porc / fillet de porc
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Pork rib chops
côte de porc
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sirloin
la surlonge
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shoulder / spine / backbone
l'échine (f)
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pork cutlet
l'escalope de pork (f)

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