Volume 2 Flashcards

(93 cards)

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en cours (adj)

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ongoing
current
in progress

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que jamais

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as ever

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de fortune

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makeshift

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non plus

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neither

either

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pousser à la roue

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to lend one’s support

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les arrhes (fp)

verser des arrhes

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deposit

to pay a deposit

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un pis-aller

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stopgap

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recenser

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to take a census of
to list
count

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la trappe

passer à la trappe

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trap door

vanish into oblivion

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une besace

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shoulder bag

beggar’s bag

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une douille

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socket (electrical )
cartridge
bushing

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12
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invoquer

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to invoke

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13
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la fraîcheur

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fresh air

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14
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une plaque d’immatriculation

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licence plate

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la bande

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strip (fabric, comic)
bandage
tape (recording)
film (cinema)

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piétonnier (adj)

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pedestrian

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côté + noun

Et côté Harry Porter?

A

about

And what about Harry Porter?

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18
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sur le coup

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at the time

instantly

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19
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l’allant (m)

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drive

energy

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20
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hybride (adj)

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hybrid

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21
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un vasistas

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skylight

transom window

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22
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foutre la trouille

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to scare

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23
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avoir la trouille

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to be scared stiff

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24
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la trouille

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willies

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dégager
to emit clear free
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une grue
crane (bird or machine)
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faire le pied de grue
to hang around
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plein à craquer
full to bursting
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une pucelle être pucelle
a virgin to be a virgin
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effaroucher
to frighten
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une pagaille en pagaille
mess confusedly
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en tout et pour tout
all in all
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la came
drugs | cam (engine)
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un camé
junkie
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le chef d’accusation
``` charge count (in court) ```
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un indic
informer | nark
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au suivant!
next please!
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dévisser avoir dévissé
unscrew to have fallen plummeted
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la lave
lava
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le lave-glace le lave-linge le lave-vaisselle
windscreen washer washing machine dishwasher
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mettre au clou être mis au clou
to hock to be in hock
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un mont-de-piété
pawnshop
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le recel
receiving stolen goods from recéler: to receive, contain, hold
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``` très introduit (adj) bien introduit (adj) ```
well-connected
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en nature payement en nature
in kind payment in kind
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une traite d’une traite d’une seule traite la traite des noirs
draft (commerce) milking (agriculture) trade without stopping without stopping once the slave trade note: un traité = a treaty
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avoir à peine de quoi vivre
to have barely enough to live on
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de quoi ils ont de quoi manger
enough to They have enough to eat.
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gagner de quoi vivre
to earn a living | to earn one’s living
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une caution apporter une caution morale à qn
security deposit bail backing to give moral backing to sb
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écoper de écoper d’une amende
``` take the rap to get (to cop) ``` to get a fine
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une mise en liberté
release
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la cohue
crowd bustle rabble
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retaper
``` to buck up (person) do up (a house) retype ```
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se retaper
to recover
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que dalle (exp) Ça me rapporte que dalle
bugger all nothing at all That gets me bugger all
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une cahute
shack | hut
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un tarpon
tarpon, kind of game fish
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un pilier
pillar
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hormis que
except that
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comparaître comparaître devant comparaître à la barre citer à comparaître
to appear to appear before to appear as a witness to be summoned to appear
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un sous-main en sous-main
desk blotter place mat secretly under cover
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guère
hardly | scarcely
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entraver
to hinder
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radier
to strike off | radiate
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à mon encontre
against me
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un sursis
suspended sentence reprieve deferment (military service)
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surseoir à
``` to stay (execution, sentence) defer ```
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suer faire suer qn
to sweat ooze exude to shake sb’s cage
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enfourner enfourner qc dans
to put in the oven to shove st into
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fausser
falsify bend (an object) distort (facts)
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gauchement
awkwardly
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froncer froncer les sourcils
to gather frown frown
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apprendre pour qn
to learn about sb
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du tonnerre (exp)
terrific
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futé (adj)
clever
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un fonceur
go-getter
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surfait (adj)
overrated
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un filou | une filoute
rogue | swindler
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tout bonnement
quite simply
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échou (adj)
come due matured note: échoir to fall due, expire
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vaille que vaille
somehow or other note: vaille is subjunctive of valoir
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un non-lieu Il y a eu non-lieu
dismissal of charges The case was dismissed.
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un plaignant | une plaignante
plaintiff
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une enchère
bid
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un franc-tireur
irregular (military) maverick rogue sniper
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le gosier
throat | gullet
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le plateau de tournage
film set recall: tourner = to film
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le tournage
shooting (of a film)
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faire un tabac
be a big success
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engranger
``` to bring in (hay) rake in (profits) ```
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le foin faire du foin
hay to make a ruckus
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quand même
after all