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s’enticher de

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to become infatuated with

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détenir

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to keep

detain

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par-devers

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in possession of

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innocenter

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to prove innocent

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dépiter qn

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to upset sb

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un snack

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snack

snack-bar

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un patchwork

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patchwork (couture) (lit and fig)

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à la rescousse de

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to come to the rescue of

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faire du gringue à qn

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to chat sb up

come on to sb

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se prélasser

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to lounge

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un table d’appoint

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occasional table

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bougonner

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to grumble

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bougon (adj)

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grumpy

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supporter

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to support (same variations as in English)

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un support

le support

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stand

support (as in English)

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un tableau blanc

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whiteboard

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les sornettes (always fp)

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hollow ideas

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un brouillon

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draft (of a work)

une ébauche

brouillon (adj) = untidy, done with little care

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mal-né (adj)

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low born

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ternir

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to tarnish

dull

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une berge

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bank (of waterway)

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avachir

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to wear out

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ébouer

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to remove mud

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à tour de bras

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relentlessly

with all one’s might

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très en vu (adj exp)
prominent
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en osier
wicker
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le chichi
fuss | pretentiousness
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un coït
coïtus
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tripoter
to grope | fiddle with
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peinturlurer
to daub
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exaucer
to grant
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familièrement
informally
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la cochonnaille
cold cuts charcuterie
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se débrailler
to be untidy | be slovenly
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vouer voué à l’échec
to nurse a feeling for sb to doom doomed to failure
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tendre une main secourable à qn
to give sb a helping hand
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un récit
story
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houspiller
to scold gronder
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renâcler à
to complain about se plaindre to be reluctant
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un toast
piece of toast pain grillé
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fieffé un fieffé menteur
blessed (neg invective) incorrigible sacré consommé a bloody lier
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une crevure
riffraff
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le courroux
wrath colère
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russe (adj)
Russian
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se délecter qc | se délecter à faire
to delight in st | to delight in doing
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une palourde
clam
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une atmosphère kermesse
a jolly atmosphere
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par deux fois
twice
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avec instance
insistently
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enlacer
to embrace étreindre
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effarer
to alarm
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une crevaison
puncture | flat tire
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sauf votre respect
with all due respect
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de vous a moi
between us
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pardi!
of course!
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plein d’allant
full of energy
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la boiserie
wood paneling
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la tenture
fabric wall covering
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intenable (adj)
``` unbearable odour (insupportable) difficult person (indiscipliné) untenable theory (indéfendable) ```
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un esclandre
scandal | scene
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les œillères (f) | une œillère
blinkers | eye bath
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impardonnable (adj)
unpardonable
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indéfectible (adj)
unfailing (friendship, love, hate...) | enduring
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s’en prendre à
to attack
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une drôle d’histoire
strange story
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un lien avec...
st to do with... | a link to...
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une lavette
wimp
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immanquablement
inevitably
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sur le devant de la scène
on the forefront
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à flot et à bien
afloat and well
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les rênes (fp) prendre les rênes
reins take the reins
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le gratin
grated cheese or topping elite
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refourguer
``` to unload (illicit cargo) pass on stolen goods ```
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un quiproquo
mistaken identity | misunderstanding
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égrainer = égrener
to strip (eg peas from a pod) ``` to count out read off (eg rosarie) ```
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Ça a l’air...
That seems...
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un cartable
school bag | briefcase
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d’une traite
directly | without stops
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un brigandage
armed robbery
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dithyrambique (adj)
ecstatic
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éperdument
frantically | madly
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tramer
to weave | hatch
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l’avocat du diable
devil’s advocate
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une traînée
streak, trace slut
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un moteur pétardant (adj)
spluttering
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rosser qn
to beat sb up | thrash sb
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tanner qn
annoy sb agacer

La Vérité sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert (5 decks)

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