2nde Annee Flashcards

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Factory outlets

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Magasins aux prix d’usines

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Lengthy commutes

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Long journey to and from the work

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Accomplishment

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L’accomplissement

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To learn from your elders

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Apprendre des aînés

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Insider-trading

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Un délit d’initié

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La plupart des français

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Most French people

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La plupart des gens de la classe ( ciblé, précis )

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Most of the people of the class

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A phenomenon and several phenomena

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Un phénomène des phénomènes

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To be gone

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Disappear

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Donner des coups de coudes

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To elbow

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Tricoter

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To finger

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Être au pied de la ligne

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To toe the line

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Payer l’addition, la facture

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To foot the bill

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Une poêle

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A flying pan

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Un micro-onde

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A microwave

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Un four

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A oven

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La discrimination positive

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Affirmative action

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Se mettre à

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To set about

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Bouder

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To sulk = to pout

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Faire la tête

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To make, pull a face

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Council estate

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Logements sociaux

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Froth

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Mousse

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Toff

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To be upper class

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To be amazed / astonished / astounded

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Être surpris

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Wiped out

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Éliminé

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To be out of reach

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Hors de portée, d’atteinte

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A pittance

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Une poignée de figues , 3 fois rien

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An allowance

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Une allocation

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28
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Great Britain

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La Grande-Bretagne

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29
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Globalization

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La mondialisation

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30
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The globalized world

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Le monde mondialisé

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To contribute to + ING

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Contribuer à

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Expensive = costly

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Cher

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Expansive = which expands = gets bigger

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S’étendre

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A widening gap

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Un grand fossé, écart

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The standard / cost of living

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Le niveau de vie / coût de la vie

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36
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The media the internet the telephone the radio the cinema but television !

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Retiens dude !

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37
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Réprimander

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To tell oneself off

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38
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A mill

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Un moulin / une usine

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Une barrière

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A fence

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A steep hurdle

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Un obstacle

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To plummet // to soar = to skyrocket

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Chuter // monter en flèche (prix..)

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Bristling with

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Grouillant

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A surge

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Un afflux

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To lure

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Attirer

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45
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The back burner // a priority

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Pas une priorité // une priorité

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To revamp

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Relooker

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47
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A can

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Une boîte de conserve

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48
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A logjam

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Une impasse

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49
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A log

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Une buche

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To nod

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Acquiescer de la tête

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Overhelmed

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Envahi par une émotion

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52
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Extra boots

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Soldats

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53
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An interloper

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Un intru

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A hefty (cost)

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Un énorme coût

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To scupper

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Saborder

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Feeble

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Faible

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57
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A chunk of

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Un morceau, une partie

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Rank-and-file = a bedrock = a grass-root

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La base

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59
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To squeak through

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Passer de justesse

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60
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To be releaved

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Être soulagé

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A relief

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Un soulagement

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62
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To fret

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Se faire du mauvais sang

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63
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A squad of

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Une troupe de

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64
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Autant

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In equal mesure

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65
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Devoir qqch à qqun

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To ow

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66
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Être fauché

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To be broke

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67
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Être dans la misère

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To be poverty-striken

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Someone - down on his luck - on his uppers - on the bread line
- in straitened circumstances

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Sortir de la mouise

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69
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A relapse

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Une rechute

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70
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Par amour

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Out of love ..

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71
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A shambolic start

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Un démarrage cafouilleux

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72
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Mettre au même niveau

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To match

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73
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To have a smattering of sth

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Avoir qq. base en ..

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To be moody

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Être lunatique

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A heritage ((piege))

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Un patrimoine

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To leave a tip

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Laisser un pourboir

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A legacy = an inheritage

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Un héritage

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To begueat sth to someone

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Léger qqch à qqun

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A bequest

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A will

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Un testament

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Une trahison

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A betrayal

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The offspring

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Les rejetons

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Être dépensier

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To be extravagant

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To be taken to hospital

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Être hospitalisé

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Fendre

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A helmet

87
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Un défaut

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A defect = a flaw

88
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The reverend + name

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Le prêtre + nom

89
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Un cendrier

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An ashtray

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La cendre

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A hard-hitting ad

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Une pub provocante

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An advertising campaign

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Campagne publicitaire

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To attend to

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S’occuper de qqun (shop)

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Être cambriolé

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To be burglarized

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Alimenté par

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Fuelled by

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Se fondre dans

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To merge into

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Faire obstacle à , empêcher

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S’enorgueillir de

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To pride oneself on

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Remettre en cause

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Casting doubt on anything
Calling anything into question
To query

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Se diriger vers

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To make for

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Se méfier de

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To be wary of

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Faire la loi

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To rule the root

103
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Se montrer à la hauteur

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To come up to scratch

104
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La paperasse

105
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There are several reasons for + noun or + ing

106
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Immigration can be explained by or in several ways..

107
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The US + singular verbs

108
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Migrant / immigrant

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Celui qui part / celui qui arrive

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A trump card

110
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Economical

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Avantageux

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A boarder

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Un interne

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A border

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Une frontière

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The finding

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The results (election)

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Tenir une promesse

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To meet a promise

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Un appel au secours

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A call for help = an emergency call

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A grown-up

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Au bout du fil

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At the other end of the line

118
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Gémir

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To whin = to wail = to whimper

119
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Finir par faire qqch

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Finally managed to + BV

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Arracher qqch à qqun

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To get sth out of someone

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Non loin de là

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Poignarder

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Balayer

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To swep / swept / swept

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To smack of the nanny state

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To caracteristic of

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To reach an all time high \ low

126
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The SUBPRIME crisis

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To come up to expectation

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Arriver avec bcp d’espoir

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To raise/ to dash expectations / hopes

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Ne pas répondre aux attentes

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To be responsible for

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Être responsable de

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To be on the wrong / right track

To be heading in the wrong / right direction

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Être sur la mauvaise / bonne voie

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Une critique

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A criticism

132
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To hold someone responsible for

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Prendre qqun pour responsable

133
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The reason for the crisis

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La raison de la crise

134
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The reason why + subject / verb

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Bruising

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Qui l’a meurtri ( cf un bleu)

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A leak

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Bordé

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Edged with / lined with

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Nail

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Ongle ou clou

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Être agressé

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To be mugged

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S’effondrer (mentalement)

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To break down = going to pieces

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To seep

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Déborder (sang)

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Être embusqué

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To be lying in wait

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Un animal perdu

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A stray animal

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Égaré

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Distraught

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A slide

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Un toboggan ou une barrette

146
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Un agent immobilier

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A real estate agent GB

A realtor US

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Se promener

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Go for / have a walk

148
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La prise sur le mur

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Une prise (aspi..)

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Brancher qqch

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To plug in

151
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Être en face de qqun

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Opposite someone

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Faire un geste de la main

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Faire honte à qqun

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To shame someone him into / out of + ing

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Aller à tâtons

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Malveillant

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L’exemple même

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The epitome

157
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Le pouvoir d’achat

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The purchasing power

158
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À la suite de

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In the wake of

159
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Telephone tapping

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Mettre un tel sur écoute

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To spring from

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To trample on

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To bolster by..

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Fortifier ( loi.. )

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Dissuader

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The misuse

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L’utilisation abusive (d’info..)

165
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To be aloof

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Être distant (du peuple)

166
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A challenge (faux ami)

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Une remise en question

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Un stratagème

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To clamp down on

A

Mettre un frein à

169
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S’occuper de ce qui ne nous regarde pas

170
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Avoir l’habitude de

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To be in the habit of + BV-ing

To be used to + BV-ing

171
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Désirer ardemment

172
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Éveiller les consciences

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To be awareness

173
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Rester figé

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To stand stock-still / rooted to the spot

174
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A shelf

175
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Un rayon de bonbon

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A sweet counter

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A stall

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Un étalage

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Un caissier

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Un vendeur

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A salesman / saleswoman

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Un long moment

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A good time / a good while

180
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Avancer vers quelqu’un

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To come up to sb

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Un pressentiment

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Entendre parler de

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To hear of

183
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Avoir des nouvelles de quelqu’un

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To hear from sb

184
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Faire face à

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To cope with

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