57 Flashcards

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un salaire permettant de vivre

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a living wage

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confondre

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to mix up

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hurler, brailler

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to bawl

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il en a bien profité

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he has had a good innings

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5
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prolongation

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extra time

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tamiser, passer au crible

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to sift

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brouiller, rendre flou

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to blur

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un perron

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a stoop

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s’abaisser à

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to stoop to sth

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être vouté

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to have a stoop

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culot

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a sass*

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une couchette

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a bunk

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lits suporposés

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bunk beds

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un froussard, une mauviette

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a wimp

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s’emballer

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to go overboard

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trop en faire sur qch

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to go overboard on sth

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17
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une bosse

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a hump

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avec le bénéfice du recul

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with the benefit of hindsight

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prendre en compte, tenir compte de

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to make allowance for

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sec, cru

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wiry

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21
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pendant tout ce temps-là

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all the while

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22
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passer le temps

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to while away the hours telling stories

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hivernal

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wintry

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prendre du plaisir à

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to derive plaisir from

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parler d'une voix traînante
to drawl
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butin
booty
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la bruyère
the heather
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un couperet
a cleaver
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une tranche de bacon
a rasher of bacon
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singeries, cabrioles
antics
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sortir, faire parler
to draw out
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une oreille indiscrète
a eavesdropper
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fouiller
to fumble
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têtu
headstrong
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plâtre
plaster
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funeste, maléfique
baleful
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d'une démarche saccadée
jerkily
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un rebord de la fenêtre, seuil
a sill
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une supplication, une prière
an entreaty
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la moisissure
the mould
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une convacation
a summons
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coté maternel
distaff side
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concis, laconique
terse
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un laquais
a footman
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On n'écarte pas l'hypothèse d'un meurtre
Foul play is not suspected
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être un dandy
to be foppish
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un banc d'église
a pew
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atours, habit
an attire
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épouvantable
horrendous
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vêtement
garment
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l'industrie du vêtement, le secteur du textile
garment industry
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un solitaire
a loner
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myope
short-sighted
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qui manque de vision à long terme
short-sighted
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la tourbe
the peat
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un hiéroglyphe
a hieroglyphic
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les rois mages
the Wise men
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connaître les usages du monde
to be worldly-wise
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question carrière, question horaire
career-wise, time-wise
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en fin de compte
after all
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extrascolaire
after-school
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demander des nouvelles de
to ask after
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s'enquérir de de
to inquire after
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convoiter
to lust after
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ressembler à
to take after
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une vipère
an adder
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sagace
insightful
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les choses terrestres
worldly things
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de toute évidence
seemingly
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connard
bugger***
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merde
bugger it ***
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tire-toi
bugger off***
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que dalle
bugger all ***
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décourageant
dispiriting
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un amateur, un boursicoteur
a dabbler*
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un fiacre
a hackney cab
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un cheval de selle
a hackney
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évaluer
to appraise
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captivant
riveting
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un marron
a chesnut
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une vieille rengaine
an old chestnut
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une châtaigne
a sweet chestnut
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un châtaigner
a chestnut tree
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alezan
chestnut
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vanité, suffisance
conceit
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le maintien, la tenue
the deportement
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a craze for
a fad for
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un engouement passager
a passing fad
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lancer la mode de
to begin a fad for
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une personne insignifiante
a nonentity
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au moment critique
when the chips are down
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en vouloir à tout le monde
to have a chip on one's shoulder
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un outil de marchandage
a bargaining chip, a bargaining counter
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un investissement de premier ordre
a blue-chip investment
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une friteuse
a chip pan
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saper, miner, ronger progressivement
to chip away at sth
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mettre en doute ou deviner
to second guess
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un assaut
an onslaught
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s'enfuir avec qqn
to elope with sb
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normalité
normalcy