Other Flashcards

1
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Les Hauts de Hurlevent

A

Wuthering Heights

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2
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Types of crimes

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Felonies: the most serious
Misdemeanours

Historical and still applicable in some jurisdictions in the US

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3
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Tour penchée de Pise en anglais

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Leaning tower of Pisa

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4
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Se battre contre des moulins à vent

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Tilting at windmills

(From jousting)

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5
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Sound made by a trumpet

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Doot

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6
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Synonym of bureaucracy and why

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Red tape
String was used to bind documents together and red tape for urgent ones in an effort to streamline the administration of Charles V’s vast empire

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7
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AFK

A

Away from keyboard

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8
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Baseball images for sex

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First base: kissing
Second base: touching breast
Third base: touching sex
Home base: sex

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9
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Piggybacking

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Following someone through a secure door without using a badge

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10
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Sundry shop

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[Malaysia] delicatessen (épicerie fine) (mostly Chinese food)

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11
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One of the reasons of the success of early Singapore

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It attracted the Bugis traders and Teochew planters from Riau, then declining

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12
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Flax

+ synonym

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«Lin cultivé» (nom de l’espèce cultivée pour sa fibre et ses graines)

  • linseed
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13
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Bouvier bernois

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Bernese mountain dog

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14
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Catch 22

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A situation where all choices result in the same outcome

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15
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SIF

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Someone I’d fuck

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16
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Quid pro quo

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“This for that” = donnant-donnant, surtout dans le contexte juridique

Différent du français “quiproquo”