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une personne importante, une huile

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A bigwig

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cabossé

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dented

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la caisse

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the till

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casual

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airy

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farfelu

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airy-fairy

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gravir les échelons

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to work onés way up

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Se tuer au travail

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to workone’s guts out

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faiblir, diminuer

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To tail off

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écrémer

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to skim

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lire en diagonale

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to skim over

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faire des ricochets

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to skim over the lake

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progressiste

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forward-thinking

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plantureux

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curvaceous

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épineux (branche)

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spiky

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un animal tué sur la route

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a roadkill

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où l’encadrement est trop lourd (business, admin)

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top-heavy

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distant

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standoffish

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être sur le point de basculer

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to reach the tipping point

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un tournant, un point d’inflexion

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a tipping point

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un ruban

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a ribbon

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la bruine, le crachin

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the drizzle

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a two-story building

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un appartement à deux étages

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se faire arnaquer

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to get ripped off*

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fourrer, entasser

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to cram

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bachoter

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to cram

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placoplâtre

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a drywall

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carrelé

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tiled

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grapiller sur qch

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to scrimp on sth

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grapiller sur tout

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to scrimp and save

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30
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dégingandé, maladroit

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gawky

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31
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pour ce qui est des avantages

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on the upside

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frénétique, enthousiaste

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rapturous

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33
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bifuerquer

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to go off at a tangent

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34
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la dernière chance

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the last-ditch attempt

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35
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54th current speaker of the US House of representative

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Paul D Ryan

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36
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être en contradiction

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to be inconsistent with sth

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37
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perpplexité

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bemusement

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38
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boucler (une ceinture)

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to buckle

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39
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déformer, voiler

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to buckle

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40
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non négligeable

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sizeable

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qui trouve, garde / qui part à la chasse perd sa place

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finders keepers

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avec de l’entraînement

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with practice

43
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à force de pratique, on y arrive

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practice makes perfect

44
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un cabinet medical

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a medical practice

45
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médecine général

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general practice

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un docteur libéral

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a doctor in private practice

47
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une pratique déloyale

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a sharp practice

48
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un rendement

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a yield

49
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une procédure d’extradition

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an extradition proceeding

50
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déroulement des événements, débats

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proceeding

51
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entamer des poursuite contre qn

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to star legal proceedings against sb

52
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être de travers, discordant

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to be out of joint

53
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dépiter qn

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to put sb’s nose out of joint

54
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copropriété

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joint ownership

55
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une société par actions

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a joint-stock company

56
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une supposition, une hypothèse

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an assumption

57
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dans l’hypothèse où

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on the assumption that

58
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présumer que

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to work / go on the assumption that

59
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une personne publique

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a public persona

60
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se créer un nouveau personnage

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to take on a new persona

61
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échange de bons procédés, une service en vaut un autre

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you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours

62
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rendre un service en espérant une faveur

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to scratch someone back

63
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une égratignure

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a scratch

64
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être à la hauteur

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to be up to scratch, to come up to scratch

65
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rester à la surface des choses

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to scratch the surface

66
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s’en sortir

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to scratch a living

67
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papier de brouillon

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scratch paper (US)

68
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un bloc-notes

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a scratch pad

69
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amadouer, acheter

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to buy off

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un spéléologue

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a spelunker

71
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d’accord, ça me va, c’est de bonne guerre

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fair enough

72
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vous le faites en noir

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does it come in black

73
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être en liberté provisoire

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to be on bail

74
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écoper

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to bail out

75
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payer la caution de qn

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to bail out

76
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critiquer, rappeler à l’ordre

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to rattle someone’s cages

77
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mieux vaut prévenir que guérir

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better safe than sorry

78
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nerveux, agité

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jumpy

79
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un épouventail

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a scarecrow

80
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une corneille

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a crow

81
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chant du coq

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crow

82
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rééquilibrer l’économie pour qu’elle ne soit pas dépendante du pétrole

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to rebalance the economy away from oil

83
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peu de professeurs sont assez bien préparé avant d’être lâché devant des enfants

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few teachers are well enough prepared before being let loose on children

84
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être plus facile à dire qu’à faire

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to be easier said than done

85
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un conservateur pur jus

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a true-blue

86
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approfondi

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in-depth

87
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pierre de touche ( Élément à l’aune duquel est évaluée une conception)

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touchstone

88
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une usine sidérurgique

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a steel mill

89
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s’armer de courage

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to steel oneself

90
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proclamer

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to trumpet

91
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les réductions d’impôts tant annoncées

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much trumpeted tax cuts

92
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fugace, de passage

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transient

93
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département des ventes, service commercial

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sales force

94
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un outsider, un perdant

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an also-ran

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suffisance, autosatisfaction

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complacency

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là-dessous

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under there

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en discussion

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under discussion

98
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vivre en Australie / Nouvelle-Zélande

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to live down-under

99
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être sous représenté

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to be under-represented

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être bien entamé

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to be well under-way

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