Volume 2

Question 1

une marque de fabrique

Answer 1

trade mark

Question 2

l’inanition

Answer 2

weakness due to starvation

Question 3

ficher

Answer 3

to file

Question 4

être fiché

Answer 4

to be on file

Question 5

une foraine

Answer 5

fairground

Question 6

vautrer

Answer 6

to sprawl
loll about
wallow

Question 7

être soupe au lait (adj exp)

Answer 7

quick-tempered

Question 8

une charrette

Answer 8

cart
barrow

round (eg of layoffs)

Question 9

plumard (slang)

Answer 9

bed

Question 10

botter en touche

Answer 10

to punt

avoid the issue

Question 11

patatras (expression)

Answer 11

crash!

Question 12

se barrer

Answer 12

to run off

Question 13

adipeux (adj)

Answer 13

podgy

Question 14

un/une manutentionnaire

Answer 14

warehouseman

Question 15

faire chier

Answer 15

to piss off

Question 16

se tailler avec

Answer 16

to run away with

note: tailler = cut, prune, trim

Question 17

accoucher de

Allez, accouche ! (exp)

Answer 17

to give birth to

Go on, spit it out!

Question 18

illettré (adj)

Answer 18

illiterate

Question 19

un scoop

Answer 19

scoop (news item)

un primeur
une exclusivité

Question 20

une buse

Answer 20

buzzard

idiot
clot

Question 21

ajuster

Answer 21

to adjust
alter (clothing)
arrange

Question 22

un ajusteur

Answer 22

fitter

Question 23

la hébétude

Answer 23

stupor

Question 24

délaisser

Answer 24

to abandon

neglect

Question 25

décanter

Answer 25

to decant a liquid to let st settle (fig or lit) to make st clear

Question 26

une grue

Answer 26

crane prostitute (informal)

Question 27

fougueux (adj)

Answer 27

spirited enthusiastic ardent impétueux

Question 28

embrocher

Answer 28

to put on a spit run through mettre en broche

Question 29

les babines (fp)

Answer 29

lips chops lèvres

Question 30

parler à la cantonade

Answer 30

to talk to no one in particular | to talk so everyone can hear

Question 31

apprêté (adj)

Answer 31

affected not natural affecté

Question 32

un conciliabule

Answer 32

private meeting

Question 33

merlan faire des yeux de merlan frit à qn (idiom)

Answer 33

whiting, fish related to cod to look with lovesick eyes at sb to oogle

Question 34

grossissant (adj)

Answer 34

magnifying

Question 35

un nabot

Answer 35

dwarf

Question 36

un récupérateur récupérateur de pluie

Answer 36

recycling or salvage device rain barrel

Question 37

le branle-bas (inv) le branle-bas de combat

Answer 37

commotion action stations

Question 38

une course contre la montre

Answer 38

race against the clock

Question 39

retrousser retrousser les babines

Answer 39

to roll up to roll back lips bare the teeth

Question 40

ployer

Answer 40

to bow flex plier

Question 41

le debarras

Answer 41

junk | things in storage

Question 42

un chromo

Answer 42

bad colour print

Question 43

de guingois

Answer 43

lopsided crooked de travers

Question 44

reléguer

Answer 44

to relegate bannish mettre à l’écart

Question 45

émousser

Answer 45

to blunt | dull

Question 46

attaché (adj)

Answer 46

attached | bound up

Question 47

une pissotière

Answer 47

urinal

Question 48

scier

Answer 48

to saw to stun

Question 49

la tranche

Answer 49

edge slice portion

Question 50

facétieux (adj)

Answer 50

mischievous

Question 51

l’appoint (m) faire l’appoint

Answer 51

supplement have the exact amount (change)

Question 52

intraitable (adj)

Answer 52

inflexible | resolute

Question 53

sauter en marche

Answer 53

to bail out lit: jump while moving

Question 54

l’abattement (m)

Answer 54

despondency

Question 55

un contretemps à contretemps

Answer 55

setback out of step

Question 56

magner (slang)

Answer 56

to hurry move your ass! se hâter

Question 57

éventrer

Answer 57

to rip open | disembowl

Question 58

un tocsin

Answer 58

alarm bell

Question 59

abrutir

Answer 59

to numb deafen make senseless

Question 60

ahurissant (adj)

Answer 60

incredible incroyable stupéfiant

Question 61

en tâche de fond

Answer 61

in the background

Question 62

entreposer

Answer 62

to store

Question 63

une torsade

Answer 63

``` twisted material cable stitch (knitting) ```

Question 64

à la verticale (adv)

Answer 64

vertically

Question 65

une trappe

Answer 65

trap door

Question 66

à peine de quoi

Answer 66

barely enough

Question 67

en apnée

Answer 67

in apnea (to stop breathing)

Question 68

une gaine technique

Answer 68

service shaft

Question 69

au ras de

Answer 69

flush with

Question 70

des fers au feu

Answer 70

irons in the fire

Question 71

l’en-tête (m)

Answer 71

header (text)

Question 72

un commissaire-priseur

Answer 72

auctioneer

Question 73

être lessivé

Answer 73

to be washed up | tired

Question 74

une écluse

Answer 74

lock (waterway)

Question 75

squatter (informal)

Answer 75

to squat | use unauthorized shelter

Question 76

les SDF

Answer 76

sans domicile fixe

Question 77

faire ses besoins

Answer 77

to defecate/urinate

Question 78

le déstockage

Answer 78

reduction of stock

Question 79

emprunté (adj) (informal)

Answer 79

awkward note: emprunter = to borrow, take (a route)

Question 80

pain de mie

Answer 80

soft bread

Question 81

un torticolis

Answer 81

stiff neck

Question 82

infâme (adj)

Answer 82

revolting | despicable

Question 83

un glaçon

Answer 83

ice cube

Question 84

l’apprenti

Answer 84

trainee

Question 85

les nichons (m)

Answer 85

boobs

Question 86

fulgurante (adj)

Answer 86

brilliant | dazzling

Question 87

infléchir

Answer 87

to deflect | bend a curve