Expression 11 Flashcards by Loïc Lepage

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Très dispendieux

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Cost an arm and a leg

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Personne qui s’emporte facilement

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Hot head

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Simple / facile

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As easy as pie

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Personne écervelée

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Scatterbrain

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Personne lente

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Slowpoke

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Manipuler

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To pull a few strings

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Sans défense

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Up the creek without a paddle

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Dépasser ses capacités

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To bite off more than you can chew

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Parler sans réfléchir

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Off the top of his head

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À la limite de ma patience

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The end of my rope

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Être très en colère

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To be hot under the collar

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C’est du chinois

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It’s all Greek

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Incapable de garder un secret

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Blabbermouth

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Paresseux / flanc-mou / fainéant

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Lazybones

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Parler sans arrêt

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Chatterbox / windbag

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Inconfortable

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Like a fish out of water

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Je suis tout ouïe

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I’m all ears

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Tout est ti-guidoo

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Everything is a ok

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C’est un super bargain

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It’s a steal

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Tout est bien qui finit bien

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All’s well that ends well

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Faire l’idiot

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To act up

Q

Marcher sur des œufs

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Skating on thin ice

Q

C’est une vie misérable

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It’s a dog’s life

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Se mettre le doigt dans l’œil

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To be off base

Se fendre en quatre

To bend over backward

Tourner autour du pot

To beat about the bush

C'est tiré par les cheveux

It's farfetched

Ça ne me fait ni chaud ni froid

I couldn't care less

Comme un diable dans l'eau bénite

Like a car on a hot tin roof

Il y a anguille sous roche / il y a une pogne

There's a catch to it

Être au septième ciel

To be on cloud nine

Une histoire à dormir debout

A cock-and-bull story

Avouer

To come clean