More french personal phrases Flashcards

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Narguer

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To taunt

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Des vas et viens

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Back & Forth

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Désordonné

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Disordered/dishevelled
Messy
Cluttered

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Miser

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To bet/to wage/wager.

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De quoi faire réfléchir

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Food for thought

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Conjoncture

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Business conditions

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Chatouiller

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To tickle

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Rapport de force

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Balance of power

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Inflechir

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To lessen/to reduce

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Fleurons economiques

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Economic flagships

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Bras de fer

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Arm wrestle

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Autant de

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So many

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Cuiv

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Copper

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Tordu

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Twisted

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Vas y que je mets 84% et je te relance de 125%

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I’ll bet you 84% & I’ll raise you 125%

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Medicin traitant

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Treating doctor

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Transpartisane

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Cross party

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Sur le fondement de

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On the basis of…

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Avant de faire machine arrière

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Before backtracking.

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Retropedailler

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To back pedal

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Il sera jamais gravé dans la mémoire

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It will be forever etched (engraved) in my memory

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Marché bourse

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Stock market.

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Lâchée l’air de rien

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Just dropped it into the conversation.

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Donner le tournis

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To make your head spin

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Laisser planer
To let it soar
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Il n’en a rien été
This was not the case.
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À ce titre
As such.
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Intelligence embar
Onboard intelligence
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À la hauteur de
At the height of
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À l’inverse de
Unlike
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Il allait de soi
It went without saying.
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En ligne de mire
In the firing line.
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En tant que telle
As such
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Dans la foulée….
In the aftermath of…
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Mise en berne des drapeaux
Flying flags at half-mast
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S’insurger
To rebel/to rise up
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Entorse
Infringement/bending of the rules
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Le saint-siège
The Holy See
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Retintissant
Resounding
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Parue en 2015
Published in 2015
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Cafouillage
Mess/muddle/messup
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La vente aux détails
Retail sales
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Madré
Cunning/sly/tricky.
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Harceleur
Bully
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Hargneux
Bad tempered/agressive
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Rancœur
Bitterness
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Foisonnement
Abundance/proliferation/profusion
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Dénicher
Unearth/find
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Contrée
Region/land
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Matraquage
Pounding/battering/clubbing
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S’éffriter
To crumble/fall apart
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Tutelle
The care/benevolence
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Sidération
Astonishment/stupefaction
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Âprement.
Bitterly.
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La société de consommation
The consumer society
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La donne
The deal/the state of play
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Faire apologie de…
To support.
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S’éteindre pas
Did not switch off.
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Gammé
Swastica shaped
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Indéniable
Undeniable
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Estimer
To estimate or to think/to feel/ to consider
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Échiquier
Chessboard
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Inopérant
Ineffective
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À nouveau frais
Once again
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S’est radicalisé.
Became radicalised.
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Faire face à
To confront/ to face up to
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Freiner
To slow/ to brake
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En mesure de
Able to
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S’apparenter
To appear like
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Incontestablement
Unquestionably
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Bruyant
Noisy
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Chasseur de tête
Head hunter
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La piste d’atterrissage ou de décollage.
The runway (landing or take-off)
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Indéfectible
Unbreakable/constant
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Épreuve
Ordeal/hardship/trial
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Falsifications
Untruths/ misinformation.
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Affirmation
Assertion/statement
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Critique
Criticism
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Fiable
Trustworthy
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Palpitant
Throbbing
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À ce jour….
To date….
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Sigle
Acronym
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Ruban
Ribbon/strip
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Compacter
To squash/to compact
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Creux
Folds
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Antenne
aeriel Also Branch/office (of a business)
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Réglementé
Chartered
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Le sort des associés
The liabilities of the associates
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Échouer
To fail
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S’afficher…
To present yourself as….
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Inédit
Unexpected/unprecedented
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Pour l’heure
For the moment
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Une tribune
An opinion piece (in a newspaper)
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Désinvolture
Indifferent/careless attitude
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Écarter
To move aside/ to shift aside
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Inhabituel
Unusual
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Buffet à volonté
All you can eat buffet
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Droigts de pieds en éventail (synonym)
To be relaxed. (Literally toes fanned out)
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Contre le cours du jeu
Against the run of play
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Faire état
To report
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S’acharner
Working hard
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Mettre en avant
To promote, to encourage. Lliterally: to put out front.
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Rivage
The shore (from rive)
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N’avoir cure de
Don’t care about, to be indifferent to
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Rageunissement
Rejuvenation
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Capital
Crucial, essential If country write in Capital letters
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Endosser
To endorse
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Composant Composante
Part of something (physical) Element/ component of a speech (eg) (not physical)
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Missile de croisière
Cruise missile
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Que ce soit…..ou non
Whether it be…….or not
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Des problèmes de fond
Fundamental problems
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À plusieurs reprises
On many occasions.
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Coup de boutoirkhm
A blow
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Mettre fin à ……..
Call a halt to/bring to an end…..
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Prendre au délourvu
Taken unawares/caught unawares
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Qui se compte en
Amounting to
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Lourdes pertes
Heavy losses.
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Non impliqué de…
Innocent of/not involved in
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Foncièrement
Fundamentally
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Donner et recevoir
Give & take.
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Se heurter
To collide with/to bump into
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Localité
Locality
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Tribunal/aux
Court/s
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Infligé à
Inflicted on
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Assez bien
Good enough
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Mettre en danger.
Put/place in danger.
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Détenue (from détendre)
Detained (to detain)
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Intérêts vitaux
Vital interests
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Nœud gordien
Gordien knot
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Esquiver
To avoid/dodge/evade/shirk
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L’encontre
Contrary to/against/in opposition to.
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Une fatalité
A foregone conclusion/ inevitable.
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Alléger
To ease
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Un nouveau départ
A new start
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Renversement.
Overthrow
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Le seuil of pauvrété (Eg: vivant sous le seuil de pauvrété)
The threshold of poverty. (Living below the poverty threshold)
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Exsangue
Worn out/ bled dry
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Parpaing
Concrete block or mound of rubble
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Décombres/gravats
Rubble.
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Ferraille
Scrap metal
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Benne
A skip/bin/dumpster
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Intervenant
Contributor Speaker
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Cantonner
Restrict/confine/limit
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Maladie de Charcot.
Motor Neurone disease.
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Atteindre Atteint par
To affect/reach Affected by
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La tenue d’une réunion
The holding of a meeting
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Prôner
To promote/ to suggest/
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Sidérurgiste
Steel worker
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Éténdre
To extend
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Réconduire
To Reappoint/to renew.
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En lice
In the running
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Dirigeant
Head/leader/Director.
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Concretisation
Fulfillment/realisation.
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Supplicier
To torture/to torment
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Émietter
To crumble
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Sur le principe
In principle
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À fait savoir
Let it be known
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Se réunir
To meet
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Faire état de
To report on
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Mettre de côté
To put to one side
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Le jeu en valait la chandelle
It was worth the effort.
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Le negotiations du jour
The current negotiations.
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Rédessiner
Redraft/redesign
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Démissionner
To resign.
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Émettre
To put forward/to advance/to suggest.
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Se poursuivre
Continue
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À se trouver en captivité
To find themselves in captivity.
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Atonie
Lifelissness
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Édulcorer
To sugarcoat/to sweeten/ to diminish.
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Implanter
To be located/situated
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Ras-le-bol
To be fed up/cheesed (pissed !)off
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Captage
Catchment.
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À la va vite
In a hurry
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Une Manne
A Godsend Manna from heaven
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Se figer
To set/congeal/solidify
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Un tour de passe-passe
A sleight of hand
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À fait machine arrière
Backtracked
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Au grand dam
To the great displeasure
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Un coup de semonce
A warning shot
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Affrontements
Confrontations/clashes/attacks
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À raisonner
To inspect/to check up on.
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Sempiternelle
Perpetual/endless/eternal.
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Qui se joue
That is playing out.
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Gracier
To pardon
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Afflux
Influx
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Habilitation
Authorization/Clearance
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Rayonnement
Standing/influence/reputation
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Joindre
To reach/to contact/to connect.
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La liberté de parole
Free speech.
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Allégué
Alledged
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À pas tortue
At a snail’s pace
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Accroc
Snags/hitches
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Gaillard
Big strong man/strapping lad/fine strong young man
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Brancard Brancardier
A stretcher. A stretcher bearer
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Gigaoctet
Gigabyte
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Une base de données
A database
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Faire Fondre
To melt
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Survie
Survival
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Informaticien
Computer expert
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Effectif
Number of people/headcount
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Défaillance
Failure/breakdown
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Tournage Équipe de tournage Plateau de tournage
Film Film crew Film set
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Revirement
Reversal/u-turn/turnaround
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Pis
Worse
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Repli
Withdrawal/retreat/
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Vide
Void/vacume
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Combler
To fill.
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Court-circuited
To short circuit
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De passage à
In passing through
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La buvette
Refreshment area Outdoor refreshment area Temporary bar
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Entamer
To start
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LeTabagisme
Smoking/smoking addiction/cigarette addiction
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Pour le coup.
Really
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Ultramarin
Overseas
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Sortir de son contexte
To be taken out of context.
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Se rengorge
To puff yourself up.
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S’agacer
To get annoyed/miffed about.
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Les ouailles
The flock/the group
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Courroux.
Rage/anger/wrath.
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Allocution
Speech/short speech
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À la suite de
Following
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Blocus.
Blockade.
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Aide humanitaire
Humanitarian aide.
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Au passage
In passing/by the way
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Sur le papier Sur le terrain
On paper. On the ground.
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Denrée
Food/foodstuffs
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Tomber à plat
Fell on its face/fell flat
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Un train de …
A series of …
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Sceller
To seal (a deal)/ to conclude (a deal)
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Snober
To snub/to cold shoulder
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Au dernière cri
Cutting edge.
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Mine de rien
Nothing to it
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Tarauder
Bothers me/plays on my mind/eat away at my mind.
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Démontre le contraire.
Shows the complete opposite.
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Insondable
Unfathomable.
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Drôlement bon
Really good