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radouber

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to grave (marine)
mend

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effilé (adj)

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long and thin

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un by-pass (m, inv)

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bypass

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un magret

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duck breast

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décupler

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to multiple tenfold

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décupler

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to multiple tenfold

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désemparé (adj)

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distraught
at a loss as to what to do

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encaisser

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to cash (a cheque)
to take some blows

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encaisser

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to cash (a cheque)
to take some blows

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les sévices (mp)

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physical abuse

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plaindre qqn

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to pity someone

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démentir

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to deny
refute

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la veille au soir

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the previous evening

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le chipotage

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haggling
quibbling

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patibulaire (adj)

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sinister-looking

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le ménagement

sans ménagement

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precaution
attention
care

brutally

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éraillé (adj)

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raspy

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Je n’ai pas à repondre

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I don’t have to answer

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une contusion

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contusion
bruise

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une contusion

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contusion
bruise

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endolorir

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to administer pain

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tenailler

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to torment

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une corniche

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cliff edge road, usually overlooking the sea
overhanging formation
cornice

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s’acoquiner

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to associate with undesirables

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de front
frontal head-on (as confronting issues)
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à moitié tembré
half-hearted
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l’apnée du sommeil
apnoea (momentary cessation of breathing)
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le bip
beep beeper
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une casaque tourner casaque
jersey make a u-turn (a 180, including figurative)
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tirer au clair
make clear bring into the open
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recourir à
to have recourse to
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plastronner
to bluster to hide weakness
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être dévasté
to be devastated
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délester
to lighten a load le lest = ballast
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sertir
to set a precious stone in a mounting
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en bouillie
to a pulp to mush
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berner
to dupe
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un baraquement
army camp group of huts
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une clef à tube
tube wrench
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faire part de
give voice about speak up about
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une entourloupe
dirty trick
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un renfoncement
recess indentation
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disculper qqn
to exculpate someone, prove their innocence
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avoir la cuisse légère
to be a loose woman
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une otite
inflammation of the ear
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gober
to suck swallow whole be gullible
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une chignole
hand drill banger (car)
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pour votre gouverne
for your information note: une gouverne = a control surface: eg la gouverne de direction = rudder
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rabrouer
to snub
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rembarrer
to send someone packing
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un sarment
vine shoot
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une étrangeté
strangeness
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l’adéquation (f)
appropriateness adequacy
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déroger
to infringe
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un attroupement
gathering of people in the street
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un braquage
theft with violence
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un braqueur
robber
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un brigand
bandit un bandit = un brigand
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s’engouffrer
to rush into
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plaquer au sol
to pin someone to the ground
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un délinquant une délinquante
delinquent
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un malfaiteur une malfaitrice
criminal
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la coqueluche une coqueluche (always fem, even if pertains to a male)
whooping cough idol
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un perchman
boom operator (filmingj ski-lift attendant
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un perchman
boom operator (filmingj ski-lift attendant
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une torgnole
clout blow
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un cocard
black eye
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ratatiner se ratatiner
to bump off (slang) to shrivel
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affleurer
to make even with (as the river is flush with its banks)
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grasseyer
to pronounce R in the throat, back of the mouth
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être de mèche avec qqn
to be in cahoots with someone
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y être pour qqc
to count for something
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maladif (adj)
pathological sickly pathologique
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maladif (adj)
pathological sickly pathologique
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l’estran (m)
flat tidal part of a river bank
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une sommité
leading expert
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desservir
to serve (wrt transport) to lead to
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un agissement
act (especially wayward)
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sommer qn de faire
to command someone to do
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en friche (f)
wasteland
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indolore (adj)
painless
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comtois (adj)
of Franche-Comté
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la faïence
earthenware
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un rebord
ledge raised edge
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susurrer
to whisper
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gondoler
to crinkle
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s’attendre au pire
to expect the worse
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saugrenu (adj)
crazy
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se fendre de
to manage (informal)
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un bouge
hovel
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par-dessus le marché
on top of that
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égrener
to shell (as peas) to ring out, as a bell (informal)
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les arrhes (fp)
a deposit (down payment)
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le dégel
thaw
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la belote
card game
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c’est une tuerie
it’s a killer it’s excellent
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c’est une tuerie
it’s a killer it’s excellent
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de ouf (informal)
many beaucoup
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de ouf (informal)
many beaucoup

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