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Feel blue n

Be down in the dumps

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Bourdon m

Il a le bourdon, il n’est pas gai.

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Psychologist sl

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Psy -s

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Feast, inf blow out

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Ripaille f
Ripailler
Faire a ripaille have a feast

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Streamers, confetti

Pettycoat

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Cotillon m

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Hit the sack, crash, bunk

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Pieuter
Se pieuter hit the sack
Est- ce que je peux pieuter chez toi ce soir?

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Pig out, stuff yr face, binge

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Bâfrer

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Party v

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Bambocher

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Known recogniced proven

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Avéré adj

Son innocence est avérée

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Muffler, scarf

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Cache-nez m

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False, bogus inf

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Bidon adj

And container, can, belly

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Rubbish, nonsense, baloney

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Toc m
Ses arguments, c’est du toc!
And fake, junk
Et toc! Interjection. There!

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Subscription,dues,collection

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Cotisation f

Cette cotisation devrait permettre de lui offrir un beau cadeau pour son départ en retraite.

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Slap n

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Mandale f

Claque, gifle

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Dirty, grimy, filthy

Dirty pig, scum

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Crasseux adj m

-euse, -euses fpl mpl unch

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Swelling,

Bastard, scumbag

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Enflure f

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Week, feeble adj

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Faiblard
L est une élève un peu faiblarde mais elle prend des cours de rattrapage.
Je me sens un peu faiblard mais…

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Xray

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Radio f

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Slacker, idler

Negligent, lazy, slapdaqh

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Fimiste nmf adj

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Shortage, shortfall, lack

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Pénurie f

Pénurie de main-d’oeuvre labor shortage

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Announcement n

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Faire-part m

faire-part de décès nm inv (carte d’annonce) death announcement n

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Central locking

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verrouillage centralisé nm

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Enlarge make bigger

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Gourbiller

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Scatterbrain eccentric n adj

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Farfelu

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Booming fast growing

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En plein essor

prendre son essor flourish blossom

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Climb get up go up

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Gravir

Fig work your way up

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Grab grip seize snatch

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Happer

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Solid sturdy well built

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Râblé adj

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Teddy bear, bear cub

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Ourson m

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Tummy, belly

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Bedon m

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Nackstod bil

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Repose-tête m

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Spy on observe

Watch out for, watch for

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Épier

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Witness box
Helm (boat)
Pain
Bar (chocolate)
Rip current
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Barre f

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Peaky a bit pale adj

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Pâlichon

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Unscrupulous mischievous

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Malicieux

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Outraged furious incensed

Exaggerated over the top

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Outré

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bit by bit, little by little expr

(informal) in dribs and drabs expr

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au compte-gouttes loc

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Tact, tactfulness

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Tact m
avec tact tactfully with tact expr
avoir du tact be tactful
Elle a du tact, elle saura lui annoncer la mauvaise nouvelle.
manquer de tact be tactless vi + adj
Ta sœur manque vraiment de tact, tu as entendu ses réflexions désobligeantes ?

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Toad

Föaw

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Crapaud m

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Hut shack

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Cahute f

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Destroy devastate wipe out

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Anéantir

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Daydream v

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Revâsser

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Influence hold control

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Emprise f
Elle a une trop grande emprise sur lui.
She has too great a hold on him.

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Trump card

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Va-tout m

jouer son va-tout go for broke v expr

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Everyone for themselves

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(C’est) Chacun pour soi

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At half mast

low, depressed

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En berne

avoir le moral en berne vi feel down v

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Besotted , in love adj

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épris adj

Elle est éprise d’un beau jeune homme.

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Unbeliever, infidel

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Mécréant -e n

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Romantic

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Sentimental ( n masc) adj
And sentimental
Il a gardé un lien sentimental avec sa première épouse.
He still has a sentimental attachment to his first wife.

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Set the alarm

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Régler le réveille

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specific area in a house) landing n
(in a public building (shop, office, etc)) corridor, landing n
(on the same level) floor

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Palier m

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Moaning whinging whining n

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Geignement m

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In single file, indian file

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À la queue leu leu (dans le couloir fex)

Leu is an old word for wolf

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Beaver n

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Castor m

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Row, argue v

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S’engueuler

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Bed base

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Sommier m

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Blotting paper

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Buvard m

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Lower back
Kidneys
Loins

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Reins nmpl

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Hearing aid

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Appareil auditif m

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Dismiss, fire, sack

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Limoger

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Outdated oldfashioned adj

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Suranné

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Mutter mumble

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Parler dans sa barbe
Chuckle to yr self rire dans sa barbe
Designer stubble barbe de trois jours, stubble barbe d’un jour

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Apprentice trainee

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Apprenti -e

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Kosher adj

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Casher

Tu ne mange pas casher

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Guinea pig fig

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Cobaye m (and the animal)
Notre classe sert de cobaye pour le nouveau programme scolaire.
 	They are using our class as guinea pigs for the new school curriculum.
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Homeland

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Patrie f

La patrie du peuple juif

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Babbling n

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Babil m

Nous entendons le babil du bébé dans son berceau.

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Be for sale

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Se vendre
Tout s’achète et tout se vend.
Everything can be bought and sold
And go for ( In terms of cost/money)

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(Inf playing for time, hemming and hawing n

humming and ahhing, hum and haw

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Tergiversation f

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Cheapskate

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Rat m

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Slap wallop

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Torgnole f

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Show off

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Frimer

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Understand twig get

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Piger

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Weakling wuss runt

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Avorton m

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Burst out explode

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Pouffer

Tout le monde a pouffé de rire.

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Tie up (person), silence

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Ligoter

Charles X tenta vainement de ligoter la presse.

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Bitch, cow

Little devil

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Garce f

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way of dressing, style of dressing n

style n

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Habillement m

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Dress up, doll up

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Bichonner

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Remains

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Vestige m

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Concrete block

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Parpaing m

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Course crude rough

Thick ( bread fex)

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Épais

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Meadow, field

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Prarie f

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Atrocious awful dreadful adj

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Affreux -se

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border, edging, piping, trim n

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liseré nm

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Zipper

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Fermeture Éclair f

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Frill (clothing)

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Frou-frou m
And ßwish, rustle ( sound)
Pl frous-frous

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Peak, top and fog

Pick axe

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Pic m

Fex peak of carrear

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slam on the brakes, pull up short loc

stop suddenly loc

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Piler

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To crack open, to half open

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Entrebâillir

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Pretend, feign

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Feindre

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Coax,cajole

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Amadouer

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Convincing

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Probant -e

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Pocket v

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Empocher

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Peel skin n

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Pelure m

Plus l

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oignon a de pelures plus l

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hiver sera froid.

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Cold n

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Rhume m

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Be fond of, partial to adj

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Friand
Il est friand de chocolat.
He’s a chocolate lover.

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Seal n

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Scellé m
L’officier de police judiciaire passa sur les lieux du crime pour poser des scellés.
Verb seller

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Furniture

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Ameublement m
L’ameublement était résolument de style moderne.
tissu d’ameublement nm upholstery

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Reverse n

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La marche arrière

Pédal

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Not be doing too well

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Aller cahin- caha
Suite à sa fracture, ma grand-mère va cahin-caha.
Cahin-caha not too well

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Rear back

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Se cabrer

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Heart bypass

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Pontage (coronarien) m

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Pupil (eye)

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Prunelle f

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Check up medical physical

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Bilan m

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Signs

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Prémices fpl

Les crocus sont les prémices du printemps.

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Downy fuzzy silky

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duveteux adj

La moustache des adolescents est encore duveteuse.

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Terrace steps row of seats tier

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Gradin m

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Stuff yr self eat well

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Lester

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Inevitably certainly

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Immanquablement

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Chat n

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Causette f

Les femmes se retrouvent à la sortie de l’école pour faire causette

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Delight please v

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Rejouir
se réjouir de be very happy about [sth], be very pleased with [sth] v expr
be delighted with [sth], be delighted to do [sth] v expr

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Polish wax v

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Cirer
cirer les pompes de [qqn] expr (informal, figurative) lick [sb]’s boots v expr
n’en avoir rien à cirer familier (vulgar) not give a rat’s ass v
(vulgar) not give a shit v
(vulgar) not give a toss v

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