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un témoinage occulaire

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eye witness

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bégayer

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to stammer
mumble

bredouiller

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le raffut

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racket

le vacarme

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dégouliner

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to trickle

drip

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un échalas

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cane
bean pole
skinny person

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un larbin

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servant
doormat
sb treated with condescension

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une armoire à glace

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sb built like a refrigerator

costaud
malabar
colosse

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avoir les jetons (idiom)

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to be afraid (of violence)

un jeton = a punch (slang)

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un grappin

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grappling hook

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un attentat à la pudeur

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indecent exposure

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la mésentente

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dissension

désaccord

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la minceur

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thinness

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hâlé

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tanned

bronzé

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l’âpreté (f)

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fierceness

bitterness

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effarer

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to alarm

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une valetaille

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flunkey (derog)

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un pingouin

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auk (arctic bird)

le manchot = antarctic penguin

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une ristourne

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discount (in price)

reduction

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penaud (adj)

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sheepish

honteux

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fielleuse (adj)

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venomous

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une embellie

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upturn
improvement
bright spell (wx = une éclaircie)

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radin (adj n m/f)

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stingy

avare
mesquin

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le dégriffé

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marked down designer goods

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pingre (adj n, m/f)

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stingy

avare

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l’anchois (m)
anchovy (small fish)
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sautiller
to hop | skip along
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délier
to untie
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écoper
to bail out (eg. a boat) also fig, as in english take the rap (informal)
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barbant (adj)
boring ennuyeux
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se couvrir
to cover oneself (fig and lit)
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vivre qc
to experience qc
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un clochard | une clocharde
down and outer
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prendre un bon savon
get an earful
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rehausser
to raise enhance highlight
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une fadette
itemized bill
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la bécane
bicycle (informal) machine (informal) equipment
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légèrement
lightly somewhat a little
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soudoyer
to bribe
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enjamber
to step over | to span
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un gradin prendre un gradin
each row of an amphitheater to fall on one’s face
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s’esclaffer
to guffaw éclater de rire
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par-dessus
over
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un limbe
limb limbo
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avant de faire
before doing
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une braise
live embers
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cahin-caha
with difficulty as best as one can tant bien que mal
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diable à quatre
with great turbulence
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un métreur vérificateur
quantity surveyor
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le piaillement
squealing
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en long et en large
in great detail
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un vagissement
wail
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brouiller
to make cloudy
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détaler
to bolt dash off s’enfuir
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passager (adj n m/f)
passenger (n) temporary (adj)
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une jatte
bowl
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disquaire (m/f)
record dealer
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folâtrer
to frolic batifoler
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fagoter
to do sb up (ie dress up—badly)
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tanguer
to stagger | be unsteady
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éthéré (adj)
ethereal
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la mousseline
muslin
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artistement
artistically
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farfelu (adj n m/f)
harebrained
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une maroquinerie
leather shop
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une résille les bas résille
hair net fishnet stockings
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une cabine d’essayage
fitting room
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la tenture
fabric wall covering
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une patère
peg
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la vergogne
shame honte
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l’indifférence (f)
indifference
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déconcertant (adj)
disconcerting
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prévenance envers qn | prévenance à l’égard de qn
thoughtfulness towards sb
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chausser
to put on (not just shoes)
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parasitaire (adj)
parasitic
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s’appuyer sur
to rely on
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déraisonner
to talk nonsense divaguer
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à tort ou à raison
rightly or wrongly
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fureter dans
to rummage through
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se tordre les mains
to wring one’s hands
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plouc (adj)
uncouth
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la camelote
junk | poor quality items
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le billard
billiards
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du tout au tout
completely complètement
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le rebours à rebours de
backwards from the rear
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brouiller se brouiller
to muddle make unclear to quarrel
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la malversation
malpractice
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cupide (adj)
tight with money avare
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pinailleur (adj)
pedantic
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à bride abattu
hell bent for leather | flat out
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la salopette
overalls
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à tort et à traverse
wildly

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