New French Vocabulary Flashcards

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la frilosité

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feebleness

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le char de combat principa

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main battle tank

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le pilote

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driver (of tank)

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le tireur

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gunner

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le chef de char

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commander

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le chargeur

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loader

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le charnier

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water cask

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mal en point

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ailing, poorly

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le remontade

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the come back

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les tirs au but

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penalty shoot out

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la déprime

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depression

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le rançongiciel

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ransomeware

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UPM (réseau privé virtuel)

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virtual private network

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stopper les bombardments

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stop the shelling

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rassurer sur

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to reassure about

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longue portée

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long range

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courte portée

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short range

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passer le témoin

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to hand on the baton

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le remisage

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putting away

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subvenir

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to provide for, meet, cover (frais)

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la miche

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1) round loaf 2) cheeks, ass. 3). boobs, tits

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se payer

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to afford

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rester en l’état

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to remain as it is

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la guéguerre

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squabble

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un pisse-froid
sourpuss
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avoir travers
to have problems
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pilonner
to bombard, to grind
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un enfant candide
a naiv child
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le tripatouillage
tampering
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l'affaissement
sinking, slumping
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de pied ferme
firmly
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ensensé
praised
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mettre les bouclées doubles
to get stuck in
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la villette
veil
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le gibus
opera hat
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l'empatement
thickening, thickening out
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la advancé
overhang
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la marquise
glass awning
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la meulière
millstone
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Paname
slang for Paris
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conditionner
to pack, package
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vivace
perennial (of plants)
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le chässis froid
cold frame
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énergumene
firebrand
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bras-le-corps
to seize with both hands, to tackle head on
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sin taxes
les taxes comportementales
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excise taxes
les droits d'accises
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le taulier
boss, restaurant owner
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la noisette
espresso with a nut of milk
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craquer le bout de la baguette
to bite off the end of the baguette
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le pôele
oil burner
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le bonbonne
demijohn
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le lérot
dormouse
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sanguin
adj blood, fiery
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apaisé
quiet, calm, serene
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le relooking
makeover
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le cancre
dunce
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le cocon
cocoon
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denture
le dentier
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emmeler
to tangle up, to muddle up
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s'en faire
to worry about
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un ourlet
hem
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eye of a needle
le chas d'une aiguille
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spooky
fantasmagorique
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la teigne
1) moth, 2) ringworm 3) nasty piece of work
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crever le cul
to bust your balls
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fourrer
to stick, to put
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what will people say
le qu'en dira-t-on
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la drouille
worthless book
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Au schloff
To bed
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la guibolle
leg( fam)
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s'en faire
to worry
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j'ai une bouée
I have a spare tire/ beer belly
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tax audit
le contrôle fiscal
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I'm on duty
je suis de permanence
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choper
to grab, to pick up
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pérorer
to hold forth
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la lubie
whim, craze
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ponctionner
1) to draw off (funds), 2) to tax
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équilibrer le système des retraites
to balance income and expenditures each year
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pousser des cris d'orfraie
to shout at the top of one's lungs
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un orfraie
white-tailed eagle
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le rire jaune
forced laugh, mirthless chuckle
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le bras cassé
good for nothing
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en filigrane
1) watermarked. 2). implicitly, implicitly
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caillera
chav
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jouissive
enjoyable
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to yelp
glapir
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la marquise
wrought iron and glass canopy over front door
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niquer
to ball, bang someone
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le tirage des bois
pruning grape vines
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sarriette
savoury
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verveine
verbena
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stère
measure of wood, a cord, cubic metre
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Enlightenment
le siècle des lumières
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vin de noix
rural liqueur of nuts, sugar, red wine, brandy
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la serfouette
draw hoe
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la motobineuse
rotovator
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l'oseille
1) sorrel. 2) slang for money
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le rebeu
North African Arab
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le renoi
nigger
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l'amorce
1) bait (for fishing), 2) fine powder for a pistol
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ricaner
to sneet
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les crins
mane
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cassos or jouer cassos
to leave
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les cassos
people from a challenged background (cas social)
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déhors les clous
off the record
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les méfaits
wrongdoing, misdeeds
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fouiner
to rummage, ferret; check up
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la bourde
blunder
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to blunder
faire la bourde
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le poucave
snitch
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le justicier
righter of wrongs, redresseur de torts
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se fourvoyer
to go astray
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colmater
to fill the gaps
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to dodge
esquiver
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buter contre/sur
to stumble against, bump into
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le décrochage
disengagement, uncoupling
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le lissage
smoothing
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asservir
to subjugate, enslave
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le pourfendeur
sworn opponent
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smoke and mirrors
un miroir aux alouettes
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passéiste
backward looking
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happer
to snatch, grab
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la sauterie
party
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la pétasse
slut, whore
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cocotter
to stink
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relou
tiresome, a pain
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foutre le feu
to torch, burn down
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le canap
sofa
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onirique
dreamlike
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live bullets
les balles réelles
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on paper
sur le papier
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l'empennage
tail assembly, tail (0f a plane)
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payload
la charge militaire
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le carénage
1) fairing, bulge. 2) refit, careening
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electronic crash
la panne informatique
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footwork
passe-passe
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butterfly stroke
la brasse papillon
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breast stroke
la brasse
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racing breast stroke
la brasse coulée
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le balcon filant
long balcony (Haussmannien architecture)
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le molleton
fleece
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asticoter
to tease, harass
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le fournais
furnace, lieu d'activité intense
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le cahier à souches
receipt book
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la souche
1) stamp. 2). stub of a cheque
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la défalcation
write-off
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le dard
sting, stinger; spur of a tree
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glousser
to chuckle, to cluck (hens)
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stale
rassis
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le bougre
sodomite (ancien); guy
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escouiller
to punish
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le zona
shingles
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package holiday
le forait
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la flemme
grande paresse, envie de ne rien faire
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porter la quigne
to be aj jinx, it's bad luck
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être canon
to be hot
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décrasser
to clean, unblock
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se mettre en quatre
to ben over backwards, to go all out
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le reuf
brother
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obliquer
to deviate
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se glacer
to freeze over
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la figue
1) fig, 2) vulva, 3) testicles
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le saint siège
1) Vatican. 2) ass
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les branques
berks
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s'en jeter un
to have a drink
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poireauter
to hang around
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sans façon
without ceremony, without fuss
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remettre d'équerre
to straighten out
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cross examination
le contre-interrogatoire
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par contenance
1) by capacity. 2). to do something to appear in a certain way to others
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le bouge
1) hovel, 2) sleazy bar
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les sommiers
registers, police records at the Prefecture
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fripé
crumpled
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de file en aiguille
one thing leads to another
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le pitre
clown
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happer
to snatch
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loose (a knot, or a screw)
desserré
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loose (handle, knob)
mal fixé
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loose tooth
dent que bouge
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loose connection
mauvaise contact
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loose (clothes)
lâche
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loose (animals)
en liberté, échappé
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loose (coalition)
informel
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Bien fait!
Serves you right!
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Well done!
Bien joué!. Bravo!
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to pass an exam
réussir un examen
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Yeah
Mouais
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personal interests
les centres d'interêe
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video editing
le montage video
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to go on duty
prendre sa faction
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il fait un bide
to have a flop
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l'octroi
tax on goods entering a city
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le trou de la serrure
keyhole
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potelé
chubby
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le grebat
lit miserable
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lestement
agilely
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élancé
slender
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moisir
to go mouldy
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amener le pavillon
to strike the colours
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Babord la barre
Port the helm
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serrer les voiles
take in the sails
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sand glass
l'ampoulette
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le commis aux vives
steward
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burden of proof
la charge de la preuve
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benefit of the doubt
le bénéfice du doute
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les clercs de la basouche
legal types
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le raseur
boring person who goes on and on
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farouche
timid,shy
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tiré à quatre épingles
dressed to the nines
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prendre sa faction
to go on duty
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le madrier
plank, board
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square
équerre
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le barillet
cylinder
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saugrenu
prepostorous
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la suie
soot
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trapu
stocky
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renfrogné
sullen
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le coup de boutoir
1) impact, 2) battering
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chambouler
to turn upside down
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mettre au piquet
to make stand in the corner
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se gargariser
1) to gargle. 2) to savour
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se ressaisir
to satisfy, appease