Volume 2 Flashcards by Ken Wodlinger

dégoupiller une grenade

pull the pin out of a grenade

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inculper

inculper pour meurtre

to charge (with a crime)

to charge with murder

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un fauteur

fauteur de troubles

maker

troublemaker

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l’assoupissement

drowsiness

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raviser

se raviser

to change one’s mind

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moulant (adj)

skinny

thin

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démener

to struggle

exert effort

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darder

dart

shoot

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boîteux

crippled

lame

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tarabuster

to badger

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brailler

bawl (colloq)

yell

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une gamelle

prendre or ramasser une gamelle

mess kit  (military)
lunch box (worker)
dish (animal)

do a face plant (idiom)

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éclabousser

splash

splatter

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flouté (adj)

blurred

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une ponte

un ponte

clutch (of eggs)

big shot

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de plain-pied (adj)

one storey
street level
on the same level

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un lotissement

subdivision

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non loin de

not far from

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rameuter

to round up

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saper

se saper

undermine
sap

to dress

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une pizza

pizza

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un huit

figure of eight

roller coaster

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funeste (adj)

funeste destin

terrible
fateful
fatal

terrible destiny

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le crépi

roughcast

pebble & mortar finish

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des volutes de fumée

curls of smoke

vieillot (adj)

antiquated | out of date

un fait divers

news item

une ordalie

ordeal

une tanière

den lair hovel

targuer de faire | se targuer

to claim to do | boast

trimballer

to lug

délaver

to wash with abrasive

étayer

to prop up | underpin

souder

to weld | solder

déchanter

to disenchant

se dérober

to hide | shirk responsibility

éteint (adj)

dull dead extinct

l’opiniâtreté

stubbornness | obstinacy

bâcler

do carelessly

une socquette

ankle sock

duveteux (adj)

downy | fluffy

nimber

to halo | swathe

une humeur de dogue

rotten mood un dogue is a mastiff (dog)

en perspective

in perspective | ahead

J'ai la berlue (exp)

I must be seeing things.

ragoutant (ad)

unappetizing | unsavoury

turlupiner

to bother

larguer

to get rid of release cast off abandon

avoir une case en moins

to be loony

buté (adj)

stubborn

naguère

not long ago | formerly

frigorifier être frigorifié

to refrigerate to be freezing

un élancement

shooting pain

le papier de verre

sand paper

une entorse

sprain

une frimousse

sweet little face

une tignasse

mop of hair

âpre (adj)

bitter rough coarse harsh

ronchonner ronchonner après

to grumble snort to grumble about

chancelant (adj)

unsteady faltering tottering

manigancer

to scheme

plaindre se plaindre

to pity to complain

un calvaire

ordeal | suffering

une plainte

complaint | accusation

maussade (adj)

sullen

dans son genre

of his kind

de fortune

makeshift

couchette

bunk

un polar

detective novel crime thriller nerd

furax (adj) (invar)

livid

un rustre

boor

une tanière

den | lair

glousser

to chuckle

geindre

to moan | groan

geôlier

jailer

saugrenu (adj)

preposterous | ludicrous

le fatras (invar)

clutter | jumble

une loque

rag | tatter

gênant (adj)

uncomfortable troublesome inconvenient

une braderie

clearance sale | discount store

un pilon

pestle wooden leg drumstick (of poultry)

affûter

to sharpen

Volume 2 Flashcards

(82 cards)