Anglais Flashcards

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Personne ou produit remarquable

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Piece of work

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Petit coup

Robinet

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Affreusement

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Horrendously

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Personne faible ou efféminé

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Morceau
Grumeau
Bosse

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Faire une embardée, vaciller

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Paillasson

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Attente

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Expectancy

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Angoissé, désespéré

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Distraught

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Conneries

Chiottes

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Remuer, agiter

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Rut

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Qui aune grande connaissance dans un domaine

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Digerati 
Literati
Geekerati
Technorati
Glitterati
Etc.

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Titres, actions

Bouillon

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Onduler

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Badaud, passant

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Bystander

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Psy

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Agripper et prendre de force

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Eteindre

Etancher(soif)

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Du même avis

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Like-minded

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Bougon, grincheux, grognon

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Truc

Avoir le coup pour faire qq chose

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Têtu, persévérant

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Tenacious

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Bon à rien

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Abus de confiance, arnaque, escroquerie

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Clair, franc, simple

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Plain

His words were quite plain

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Cadenas

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Padlock

The gate was padlocked

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Carbonisé

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Burn to crisp

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Perdant, outsider

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Underdog

He always likes to help the underdog

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Crainte révérencielle

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Fringant, audacieux, galant

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Tromper, leurrer

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Chiot

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Au milieu de

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Midst

In the midst of the scandal, news broke of her resignation

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Très orné

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Tendu

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Tireur d’élite

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Brouter

Caresser

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Jarret

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Sympathique, agréable

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Congenial

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Coquin, espiègle

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Mischievous

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Subrepticement

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Surreptitiously

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Fruit rouge de la rose, riche en vitamine C

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Chasseur de prime

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Bounty killer

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Tas

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Exagérer, en faire trop

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Déterminé

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Purposeful

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Inexploré, terre inconnue

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Uncharted

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Joyeux

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Surdoué en math

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Number cruncher

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Rire bruyamment, irrespectueusement

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Sniggering

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Conseil

Avocat

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Violon combine

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Gaufre

Gaufrette

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Waffle

Wafer

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Palet, rondelle, galet

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Encrier

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Contrat d’emploi formation

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Indenture

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Les fesses

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Tush, tushy

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Atout

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Faire face courageusement et stoïquement

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Bite the bullet

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En secret

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Underhanded

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Bac, basket, caisse

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Crate

Three crates of bananas

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Doubler, postsynchroniser

Surnommer

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Poire

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Pointless

a pointless journey

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Fettle

To be in fine fettle

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Take after

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Do-gooder

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Soap opera

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Stooge
Straight man
Foil

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Sleuth

Private eye

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flaunt (floːnt) verb
to show off in order to attract attention to oneself.
She flaunted her expensive clothes

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Draw
Deuce
Evenness

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Pulchritude

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Spineless

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to swerve

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Skinny

Skinny-dipping

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Board

Half board, full board

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buy in
amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use; “let’s stock coffee as long as prices are low”
stock up, stock

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Take the fall

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Seisin

Saisine (scot)

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gild

to cover with gilt. We could gild the frame of that picture

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Step on it

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Astounding

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Follow through

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From top to bottom

From stem to stern

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Swagger stick

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Rail

Don’t lean over the rail

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Start out

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Run off the mill

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Pate

A bald pate

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Once and for all

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Nonplussed

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Squeamish

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Apparatus

He was rescued by firemen wearing breathing apparatus

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Stretcher

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Scripture

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composure [kəmˈpəʊʒər]

to regain one’s composure, to recover one’s composure → retrouver son calme

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Meted out

Stern justice was meted out by these organized avengers

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Arm
What’ll you do if the arms come in while you’re sawing the bars of your cell?

Or long arm, law arm

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Eerie

weird. an eerie silence

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Match maker

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Disbelief

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Leash

Lyam

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Underlying

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Twirl

She twirled her hair round her finger

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Protrude

is teeth protrude

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Clench

He clenched his teeth/fist

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She was the embodiment of loyalty

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I’m not remotely interested

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flurry

a sudden rush (of wind etc); light snow. A flurry of wind made the door bang; a flurry of excitement; The children expected a lot of snow but there were only flurries
a confusion. She was in a flurry

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By golly!

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All of the sudden

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Self-help-book

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Poach

They poached members from other unions

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Husbandry

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Baggy

loose, like an empty bag. He wears baggy trousers

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Vapid

Vapid talk

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Snuff out

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Comforter

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to send in the bailiffs

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Yen

to have a yen for sth

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Pellet

He bought a box of lead pellets for his gun

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gazebo

A small summerhouse or pavilion with a view, or a belvedere on the roof of a house

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Woozy

to feel woozy

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Subdue

to conquer, overcome or bring under control. After months of fighting the rebels were subdued

quiet; not bright or lively. subdued voices; He seems subdued today

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take stock

Before you decide, give yourself time to take stock (of the situation)

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Go postal

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outcry [ˈaʊtkraɪ] n → tollé m

a public outcry

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Indomptable

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High wire

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Answer the door

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shabby (ˈʃӕbi) adjective

looking old and worn. shabby curtains; shabby clothes.usé
wearing old or dirty clothes. a shabby old man; He used to be so smart but he looks shabby now.miteux
(of behaviour) unworthy or mean. That was a shabby thing to do.mesquin

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Moth

The moths have been at my evening dress

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Surrogate

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Sustain

I am sustained by letters of support

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To have No quarrel with sb

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Deterrent

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Lake, loch

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Carb

a low-carb diet

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Afar

from, at or to a distance. The three wise men came from afar

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to be lost in thought

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Okey-dokey

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undergo
They underwent terrible hardships
2. to go through (a process). The car is undergoing tests/repairs; She has been undergoing medical treatment

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Holding on for dear life

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Honeymoon

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fluster [ˈflʌstər]
vt (= make nervous) [+ person]
to be in a fluster

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scrambler

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Nightingale

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Hullabaloo

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Sperm whale

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Hard scrabble

The sharecropper’s hardscrabble life.

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Witchcraft

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Overcome

I was overcome by a sense of failure

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Desultory

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Dedicated

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Miscegenation

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Bombastic

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Preposterous

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Step down,resign, vacate, renounce, give up - leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily; “She vacated the position when she got pregnant”; “The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds

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Stymie

To be stymed

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Ostracise

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Mob

The singer was mobbed by a huge crowd of his fans

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Nigh

Well-nigh

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Inkling

He had no inkling of the cause of the delay

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Unassuming

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Ease off

he eased off the gas pedal and the car slowed down

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Expandable

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Sparkling or still

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dotage [ˈdəʊtɪdʒ] n (= old age) → vieux jours mpl

to be in one’s dotage → être dans ses vieux jours

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Derelict

a derelict airfield

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footstep [ˈfʊtstɛp]
I can hear footsteps on the stairs
to follow in sb’s footsteps

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Whiz-bang

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Weightlessness

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Titmouse
Bluetit

I-cincia

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To lean across

Lean

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Zillionaire

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Razzle 
Razzle-dazzle
On the razz
Razzmatazz 
away from the razzmatazz of college and frat parties

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Call a spade a spade

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Yawn, gant

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Bereavement

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Eaves-drop

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Mayhem

to cause mayhem

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Undermine

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Beat around the bush

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Inconspictuous

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Conniving

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Bicker
to bicker with sb about sth,
to bicker with sb over sth

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Changeling

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Concertinas

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hut
a small house or shelter, usually made of wood

Where is the nearest mountain hut?

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Sure fire

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Swing around

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Stilettos

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Loom

I faced the icons that loomed through the veil of incense

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up·tight (ŭp′tīt′)

adj. Slang
1. Tense; nervous: was uptight about turning 50.

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Pull over

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Snipe

The soldier was shot by a sniper

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Bead
beady eye
informal keen watchfulness that may be somewhat hostile: he’s got his beady eye on you.

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Impish

Imp : diablotin

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Grumpy, crotchety

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Compelling

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Trounce

Our football team was trounced

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waft [ˈwɒft ˈwɑːft]
vt (= carry) → faire parvenir
to be wafted → parvenir
The scents and sounds of the May countryside were wafted to us in the spring sunshine

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Hitch up

He hitched up his trousers

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To up the ante

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clog [ˈklɒg]
n (= shoe) → sabot m
to pop one's clogs (British) → casser sa pipe
vt
[+ pores] → boucher; [+ arteries] → obstruer
[+ roads] → remplir
[+ drains] → boucher
clog up
vi → se boucher, s'encrasser

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Restraining order

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breeze [ˈbriːz] n → brise f
it’s a breeze (= simple) → c’est du gâteau
breeze in
vi → entrer d’un air dégagé

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Inconvenience

We apologize for any inconvenience caused

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avert (əˈvəːt) verb

to turn away, especially one’s eyes. She averted her eyes from the dead animal.détourner
to prevent. to avert disaster.prévenir

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Catty

a catty remark

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To look down

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Stint
Don’t stint on the sugar
his stint in the merchant navy

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Lowly

a lowly cottage

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to crumble

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Cheerleader

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Void

The book is void of all meaningful content

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Admonition

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Fall back

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Swill

She swilled the whisky around in her glass

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Prattle, blatter

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Buck

to make a quick buck

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Malingering

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To a certain extent

To an extent

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catch on

to become popular. The fashion caught on.prendre
to understand. He’s a bit slow to catch on.piger

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bravado (brəˈvaːdəu) noun

(a show of) daring. He’s full of bravado, but really he’s a coward

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Not tell a soul

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Boisterous

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In a huff

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Incentive

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juggle [ˈdʒʌgəl]
vi
(lit) (with balls, objects)
to juggle with sth [+ balls, plates]
to juggle with sth [+ tasks, responsibilities, problems]

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It takes a lot of guts

It takes a lotta guts

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Twice as many

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Stevedore

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ESP

extra sensory perception

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Appoint

They appointed him manager

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Hem and haw

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Rascal
Cullion
Bum
Scoundrel

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Courthouse

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Amid, amidst

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Dogged (de Dog)

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Snuff

He took a pinch of snuff

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Pouch

a tobacco pouch

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Paramount

of paramount importance

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Model, dummy

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Colorado beetle

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Corporate

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Bland

That soup is very bland.

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kindle
to (cause to) catch fire. 
I kindled a fire using twigs and grass
The fire kindled easily
His speech kindled the anger of the crowd

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shoo (ʃuː) interjection
an exclamation used when chasing a person, animal etc away. ouste verb
to chase away. She shooed the pigeons away.chasser

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At arm’s length

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Make-believe

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Move up

Move up and let me sit down, please

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To pull a crowd

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To look up

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Nerve-raking

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Waterworks

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Juggernaut

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Pounce

The papers pounced on it

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Venture
business venture
to dare to go. Every day the child ventured further into the forest

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Unconscionable

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Bladdered

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Downtrodden

at the expense of the downtrodden masses

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Wash over

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Skim stones

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Short-change

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cram (krӕm) – past tense past participle crammed – verb

to fill very full. The drawer was crammed with papers.bourrer
to push or force. He crammed food into his mouth.fourrer
to prepare (someone) in a short time for an examination. He is being crammed for his university entrance exam.potasser

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Gallbladder

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Dorm, dormitory

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Urge on

He urged himself on in spite of his weariness

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Gait

The old man’s shuffling gait

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Atonement

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Untoward

untoward behavior.

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stammer [ˈstæmər]
to have a stammer → bégayer
He’s got a stammer → Il bégaie.

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Fellowship

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Rampage

They went rampaging through the town → Ils ont envahi les rues et ont tout saccagé sur leur passage.

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Yak, Yaketi-yak

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Hail-tail

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Multifarious

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Freak

To freak out

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White lie

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Snowed under

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Chortle
He began chortling like an idiot.
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Quaint

a quaint little cottage

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Cop a feel

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Ingrafting

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Pull down

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Grimy

grimy buildings

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A bull’s eye

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Forthcoming
forthcoming events
She wasn’t very forthcoming about her work

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To give sb an earful

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Acrid

harsh in smell or taste. The acrid smell of smoke filled the room

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Blueberry

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Appealing

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Gobsmacked

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Excruciating

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Hopping mad

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Give a go

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pe·tri dish (pē′trē)

[After Julius Richard Petri (1852-1921)

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sham (shăm)

“Because she had been so readily unfaithful, her marriage was a sham

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Wholesome

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Solemn

a solemn question

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Infer

I inferred from your silence that you were angry

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Make a play

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shambles [ˈʃæmbəlz] n
(= messy place)
It’s a complete shambles

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Pineapple

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Intravenous

IV

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The packets of cigarettes on display were dummies

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“I want you to stonewall it, let them plead the Fifth Amendment” (Richard M. Nixon).

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Jellyfish

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Peddle

peddling goods from door to door

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I don’t care a fig

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Touch and go

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Deflection

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Jaunt

Did you enjoy your jaunt to Paris

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Pagan, heathen

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Gathering

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Courthouse

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Hail mary.

Football A long pass thrown in desperation, especially near the end of a game.

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Improbable

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Glider, sailplane

I- aliante, velivolo
D- Segelflugzeug

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Sake

He enjoys talking for talking’s sake

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hackles [ˈhækəlz] npl

to make sb’s hackles rise

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Go ballistic

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Slam dunk

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Cry, weep

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Probation

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Four-eyed

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Encounter

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Chastened

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Merriment

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Blueprint

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Drift off

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I still can’t believe that Nora and Scott walked down the aisle

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Skid

His back wheel skidded and he fell off his bike

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commitment

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On a limb

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Turn in
Hand over
They turned the escaped prisoner in to the police

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Self-centered

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Somophore

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Smorgasbord

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To see sights

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Litter

Broken glass littered the pavement

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Demonstrator

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My gosh !

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Put through the wringler

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Assertive

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Swiss roll

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Sugar beet

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Hindsight

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Onset

the onset of a cold

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Spent, exhausted

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to be in the doldrums

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Judgmental

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a narrative

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Plank

The main plank [campaign, policy, argument]

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Soda

Soda ash

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Relinquish

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Off-the-wall

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Sigh

She sighed with exasperation

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throttle [ˈθrɒtəl]
n
(in vehicle) → accélérateur m
at full throttle (fig) (= at great speed) → à pleins gaz
vt → étrangler

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Wax and wane

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covered with fuzz. fuzzy material

2. indistinct; blurred; not clear. The television picture was fuzzy

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Maidenhead

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To be prone

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Besmirch

Tarnish

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Fountain pen

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Grovel

He grovelled before his leader

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Larboard, Starboard

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Overserve

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Bane

It is the bane of my life → C’est le drame de ma vie.

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Monograph

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Seclusion

in seclusion from the world

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Stray
à stray cat
à stray bullet

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Waulking song

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At the ready

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Gruesome

Ghastly

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Cinderella

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To be long-sighted

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Dress-down

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Circling the wagons

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mound (maund) noun

a small hill or heap of earth etc. a grassy mound; a mound of rubbish

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Recoil

He recoiled at/from the sight of

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To be cross-eyed

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Fortune cookie

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To do something in a twinkling of an eye

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Peg

There were four pegs stuck in the ground

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Phubbing

Phone Ubbing

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Dim-minded

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Crawler

Crawler lane

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sneer, snigger, giggle

(avec méchanceté) → to snigger
(bêtement) → to giggle

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In-your-face

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Histrionics

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Mercenary

Too strongly influenced by desire for money. a mercenary attitude

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Peruse

She was perusing a copy of Life magazine

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Scrambling

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Second-guess

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Segue

Daylight segued into dusk

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Bugger

Bugger it!

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Sift

Sift the flour before making the cake

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Hurricane

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Swelter

They sweltered in temperatures rising to a hundred degree

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Dither

Haver

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Slush fund

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Pang

to feel a pang of guilt → ressentir une pointe de culpabilité

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Smitten

They were totally smitten with each other.

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Decumbent

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To be one-eyed

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Unswerving

an unswervingly loyal man”

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eg,e.g. (ˌiː ˈdʒiː) abbreviation from Latin

exempli gratia; for example. tropical fruit, e.g. mango, pineapple and avocado. par ex

Answer 375

A

Rubber

Rubber stamp

Answer 376

A

Unadulterated

Answer 377

A

Single-breasted

a single-breasted tweed suit

Answer 378

A

Tenderfoot

Answer 379

A

Smug

I don’t like that smug little man

Answer 380

A

Step down,
Hang up one’s spurs
Hand over one’s badge

Answer 381

A

Shadow cabinet
a group of prominent members of the parliamentary opposition who are expected to hold positions in the cabinet when their party assumes pow

Answer 382

A

Boarding-school

Answer 383

A

Sister-in-law

Sisterhood

Answer 384

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cut off

to interrupt or break a telephone connection. I was cut off in the middle of the telephone call
to separate. They were cut off from the rest of the army
to stop or prevent delivery of. They’ve cut off our supplies of coal

Answer 385

A

Appointment

Answer 386

A

Snort

he horses snorted impatiently

Answer 387

A

Despondant

Answer 388

A

Turnstyle

Answer 389

A

Dilbert

Scott Adams

Answer 390

A

Burst open

Answer 391

A

to be bereft of sth (= without) → être dépourvu(e) de qch

Answer 392

A

Bolt hole

Answer 393

A

Get hold off

Answer 394

A

Louse up

It’s your last chance; don’t louse it up

Answer 395

A

Confer

: conferred a medal on the hero.

Answer 396

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luvvie (ˈlʌvɪ) or luvvy
n, pl -vies
(Theatre) facetious a person who is involved in the acting profession or the theatre, esp one with a tendency to affectation

Answer 397

A

Palatable

Answer 398

A

Knucklehead

Answer 399

A

Swaggering

Answer 400

A

infringement
an infringement of sth [+ rules, regulations]
There was no infringement of article 7

Answer 401

A

Back burner

Answer 402

A

Be with you in a sec

Answer 403

A

Come off
Pull off
Bring off

Answer 404

A

Yekke

Parce qu’ils portent des vestes courtes (Jacke en allemand

Answer 405

A

Dibs

Shortened from dibstones

Answer 406

A

Fret

Philip was fretting about his exams

Answer 407

A

Right as rain

Answer 408

A

Smithonian
Of or pertaining to the Englishman J. L. M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D. C

Answer 409

A

His stories enthralled the children

Answer 410

A

Henceforth

Answer 411

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veer [ˈvɪər] vi
to veer off [car, bus, plane, ship]
to veer off course → dévier de sa trajectoire
to veer off to one side → dévier d’un côté

Answer 412

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Veal

We had veal for dinner

Answer 413

A

Flabby

flabby cheeks

Answer 414

A

sweep away

Answer 415

A

unconscionable - lacking a conscience; “a conscienceless villain”; “brash, unprincipled, and conscienceless”; “an unconscionable liar”
conscienceless

Answer 416

A

At knifepoint

Answer 417

A

Tedium, boredom, fatigue

Answer 418

A

Insufferable

Answer 419

A

Gullible

He is so gullible that he believes everything you tell him

Answer 420

A

Rouse

Wake up

Answer 421

A

Pied piper

Answer 422

A

Dilly-dally

Answer 423

A

Grievance

Answer 424

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Twitt
To taunt, ridicule, or tease, especially for embarrassing mistakes or faults: “The schoolmaster was twitted about the lady who threw him over”

a fool or idiot. Stupid twit!

Answer 425

A

Pecker

Peck: coup de bec

Answer 426

A

Forbidding

Answer 427

A

Bloodletting

Answer 428

A

Salvage

Was there any salvage from the wreck

Answer 429

A

Tuppence

Two pence

Answer 430

A

Conspicuous

Answer 431

A

Dalliances

Answer 432

A

Ransacked
I ransacked the drawer looking for my keys.
Ransacked the village

Answer 433

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squirm (skwəːm) verb

to twist the body or wriggle. He lay squirming on the ground with pain.se tortiller
to be very embarrassed or ashamed. I squirmed when I thought of how rude I’d been. ne pas savoir oû se mettre

Answer 434

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Backwater

Answer 435

A

hurdles

a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles

Answer 436

A

Knock-off

Answer 437

A

Gird one’s loin

Answer 438

A

Somersault

Answer 439

A

Eventually

Answer 440

A

Shortening

Answer 441

A

Raucous

a raucous voice

Answer 442

A

Tank suit

Answer 443

A

Smoothbore

a smoothbore musket

Answer 444

A

Break away

Answer 445

A

That’s swell !

Answer 446

A

self-appointed

“a self-appointed guardian of public morals”

Answer 447

A

snap up
to grab eagerly.
I saw this bargain in the shop and snapped it up straight away;
The bargains were snapped up

Answer 448

A

Bat
Boise
Jag
Spree

Answer 449

A

Thunderbolt

Answer 450

A

Snatch

He snatched the keys from my hand

Answer 451

A

Convoluted

Answer 452

A

Contraption

Answer 453

A

take over

Answer 454

A

That soup is very bland

2. (of people, their actions etc) showing no emotion. a bland smile

Answer 455

A

Rap sheet

Answer 456

A

Moody

a moody child

Answer 457

A

Sitter

Baby sitter

Answer 458

A

cap [ˈkæp]
n
(= hat) (gen) → casquette f; (for swimming) → bonnet m de bain
to go cap in hand to sb for sth → aller quémander qch auprès de qn

Answer 459

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Enter into

Answer 460

A

Come around

Answer 461

A

frailty [ˈfreɪlti] n
(= weakness) → faiblesse f
the frailties of human nature → les faiblesses de la nature humaine
(= poor health) → fragilité f

Answer 462

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Trainee

She’s a trainee

Answer 463

A

Deal with

Answer 464

A

Gloat

He gloated over his rival’s failure

Answer 465

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Bedridden

Answer 466

A

Acclimate

Answer 467

A

Stop up

to block. Some rubbish got into the drain and stopped it up

Answer 468

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Cash out

After 3 decades in politics, she cashed out and moved to Polynesia

Answer 469

A

Blimey
Gorblimey
Corblimey

(God blind me)

Answer 470

A

Betwixt and between

Answer 471

A

Out of sight, out of mind

Answer 472

A

Spick and Span

Answer 473

A

Blip

Or pip

Answer 474

A

Cattle

Cattle call

Answer 475

A

Shock and awe

Answer 476

A

Blackberry

Answer 477

A

Toot sweet

Answer 478

A

Breeches

Britches

Answer 479

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bristle
bristling with → hérissé(e) de
to bristle with sth (fig) (= have a large number) → grouiller de qch
to bristle at sth → se hérisser à qch

Answer 480

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Belabor the point

Answer 481

A

Hurrry along

Answer 482

A

Bend over

Answer 483

A

Oust
to be ousted from sth [+ job, position] → être évincé de qch
He was ousted from his job → Il a été évincé de son poste

Answer 484

A

Genuine
These are genuine diamonds
She’s a very genuine person

Answer 485

A

Appraiser

Answer 486

A

Combination

Answer 487

A

qualm [ˈkwɑːm] n
to have qualms about sth (= doubts)
I have qualms about some of his arguments → J’ai des doutes sur certains de ses arguments.
to have qualms about doing sth (= hesitate to) → hésiter à faire qch
to have no qualms about doing sth

Answer 488

A

Anchor woman

Answer 489

A

Notwithstanding

Such realism notwithstanding, the film was a disaster

Answer 490

A

Flunk out

Answer 491

A

Quid

They’re quids in, thanks to the EC

Answer 492

A

Soap opera

Answer 493

A

Still Life

Answer 494

A

straggle (ˈstrӕgl) verb

to grow or spread untidily. His beard straggled over his chest. pousser/tomber en désordre
to walk too slowly to remain with a body

Answer 495

A

Etch

It is etched on my memory

Answer 496

A

Volunteer

Answer 497

A

Ill-wisher

Answer 498

A

Stamina

Long-distance runners require plenty of stamina

Answer 499

A

Scot, Scottish, Scotsman, Scots, skotti, tartan

Answer 500

A

Stockpile

Answer 501

A

Wither

The plants withered because they had no water

Answer 502

A

Turn down

Answer 503

A

entirety [ɪnˈtaɪərɪti] n

in its entirety → dans sa totalité

Answer 504

A

Giddy

to feel giddy

Answer 505

A

Vigilante

Answer 506

A

vagabond, tramp, hobo, roamer, rover, roving, wanderer, vagrant

Answer 507

A

Aspirational

Answer 508

A

Duffel

Duffel coat, duffel bag

Answer 509

A

nun [ˈnʌn]

She’s a nun

Answer 510

A

Obnoxious

Answer 511

A

Portend

Foreshadow

Answer 512

A

shamble (ˈʃӕmbl) verb
to walk slowly and awkwardly, (as if) not lifting one’s feet properly off the ground. The old man shambled wearily along the street

Answer 513

A

To have a crush on sb

Answer 514

A

Curvaceous

Answer 515

A

Dedication

Answer 516

A

Shuck

a. To remove the husk or shell from: shuck corn.
b. To open the shell of (a bivalve): shuck oysters.

Answer 517

A

Hand fasting

Answer 518

A

Blindfold

Answer 519

A

Left-handed, lefty, leftie

Southpaw

Answer 520

A

Ooze

The water oozed through the sand

Answer 521

A

Verge
“soft verges” → “accotements non stabilisés”
(= brink) to be on the verge of doing sth

Answer 522

A

Wright

Playwright, shipwright

Answer 523

A

Pore over

He pored over his books

Answer 524

A

Guise

The thieves entered the house in the guise of workmen

Answer 525

A

It is their call

Answer 526

A

An eye for an eye

Answer 527

A

You’re a star!
You’re an absolute star!
You’re a life-saver!
I don’t know what I’d do without you
I appreciate that!
You shouldn’t have!
Cheers!
Ta! (Children)
Fab!

Answer 528

A

Hen party

Answer 529

A

Wage

to wage war against sth/sb

Answer 530

A

Good riddance!

Answer 531

A

Household

Answer 532

A

Swirl

to (cause to) move quickly, with a whirling or circling motion. The leaves were swirled along the ground by the wind

Answer 533

A

Carol

Christmas carol

Answer 534

A

Selfhood, ipseity

Answer 535

A

Intake

an intake of breath

Answer 536

A

Neckcloth

Answer 537

A

Chilblain

Answer 538

A

Mortician

Answer 539

A

Okay-dokey 
All right
Very well
Right-oh
Fair enough

Answer 540

A

Howdy

How do you do

Answer 541

A

Have going

Man, you really had me going there with that fake winning lottery ticket!

Answer 542

A

Withering

Answer 543

A

Rocket science

Answer 544

A

Pat
He patted the horse’s neck

off pat
He had the answer (off) pat

Answer 545

A

DUI

Driving Under influence

Answer 546

A

Fantasize

Answer 547

A

quip [ˈkwɪp]
n → remarque piquante or spirituelle, pointe f
to make a quip about sth → faire des plaisanteries sur qch
vt → déclarer d’un ton malicieux
… he quipped → … lança-t-il d’un ton malicieux.
to quip that → déclarer d’un ton malicieux que

Answer 548

A

household name

Answer 549

A

In the flesh

Answer 550

A

Run the gauntlets
Refers to an old military punishment in which one was forced to run between two lines of soldiers while being thrashed with rods or whips.

Answer 551

A

Legitimate, légit

Answer 552

A

Forey

to make a foray into enemy territory

Answer 553

A

jibe,gibe (dʒaib) noun
a cruel or unkind remark or taunt. cruel jibes.moquerie

verb
(with at) to make fun (of) unkindly

Answer 554

A

Workbench

Answer 555

A

Foundling

Answer 556

A

Pass·o·ver (păs′ō′vər)
n. Judaism
A holiday beginning on the 14th of Nisan and traditionally continuing for eight days, commemorating the exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt. Also called Pesach.

Answer 557

A

Bad blood

Answer 558

A

Inducement

Answer 559

A

Quarterly

Answer 560

A

Smother

Management smothered the true facts of the case

Answer 561

A

“The reporter tripped up the senator

Answer 562

A

Sharpen, whet, hone

Answer 563

A

Dreary

Dreich, dreigh, driegh (scot)

Answer 564

A

Laudatory

Answer 565

A

Mightiness

Answer 566

A

A rough patch

Answer 567

A

Jest

speaking in jest.pour rire

Answer 568

A

Unfathomable

Answer 569

A

bedfellow - a temporary associatebedfellow - a temporary associate; “politics makes strange bedfellows

Answer 570

A

Spout

Water spouted from the hole in the tank

Answer 571

A

Nostrils Flared

Answer 572

A

Waterhorse

Answer 573

A

Boondoggle

Answer 574

A

Lass

Anne is a Lancashire lass

Answer 575

A

waltz
n → valse 
waltz in
vi (= enter casually) → débouler
waltz off
vi → filer

Answer 576

A

Immutable

Answer 577

A

meander [miˈændər] vi
(= wind) [river] → serpenter; [road] → serpenter
A stream meandered towards the sea → Un ruisseau serpentait jusqu’à la mer.
[person] → flâner
[speech, conversation, account] → se perdre en méandres

Answer 578

A

To catch sight of

Answer 579

A

Doodle

to make meaningless drawings and scribbles, usually while thinking, talking on the telephone etc.

Answer 580

A

Every second weekend

Answer 581

A

Cartwheel

Answer 582

A

hoo-ha or hoo-hah  (ho͞o′hä′)
n. Slang
1. A fuss; a disturbance: 
"the subject of this last hoo-hah"
2. A chortle or laugh: 
got a good hoo-ha out of that story

Answer 583

A

comfy [ˈkʌmfi] adj [clothes, shoes, chair, sofa]

to be comfy [person] → être à l’aise

Answer 584

A

Hit the sac

Answer 585

A

Fender-bender

Answer 586

A

Priesthood

Answer 587

A

To have butterflies in one’ s stomach

Answer 588

A

Vise uk

Vice us

Answer 589

A

Breakthrough

Answer 590

A

Rattle off

The boy rattled off the poem

Answer 591

A

fleet of foot

Fig. able to run fast. Frederick, who was notably fleet of foot, outran all the other boys and won the prize.

Answer 592

A

snuff film (slang)

Answer 593

A

Slaughter

Answer 594

A

Sugarcoat

Answer 595

A

Shatter

She was shattered by the news of his death

Answer 596

A

Cold feet

Answer 597

A

The plane spun out of control

Answer 598

A

The wazoo

Answer 599

A

Condone

By his silence, he seemed to condone their behavior

Answer 600

A

Ingrained

Answer 601

A

Knock off

Answer 602

A

Boast, vaunt

Blow one’s own trumpet

Answer 603

A

roost (ruːst) noun
a branch etc on which a bird rests at night.
to be the person in a group, family etc whose orders, wishes etc are obeyed

Answer 604

A

Watchhouse

Answer 605

A

Watershed

Ligne de partage des eaux

Answer 606

A

Outlier

Outliers make statistical analyses difficult

Answer 607

A

Sidetrack

I was sidetracked into going to the pictures

Answer 608

A

To do one’s damnedest

Answer 609

A

Serendipitous

Answer 610

A

Misgiving

Answer 611

A

belie

to give a false idea or impression of (something). His innocent face belies his cunning

Answer 612

A

gash

a gash on his cheek

Answer 613

A

A load of

Answer 614

A

Muss
“the house was a mess”;
“she smoothed the mussiness of the bed

Answer 615

A

Jumble

Have you any jumble to spare

Answer 616

A

Landslide

Answer 617

A

Let in on

Answer 618

A

Roadblock

Answer 619

A

Smuggling

Answer 620

A

Onslaught

Answer 621

A

Outlook.1

Answer 622

A

Taper off

Answer 623

A

Mastermind

Answer 624

A

Down the hatch!

Answer 625

A

taint [ˈteɪnt] vt
[+ meat, food] → gâter; [+ flavour] → dénaturer
[+ reputation] → entacher
to be tainted by sth → être entaché(e) de qch

Answer 626

A

Allegedly

the crime he allegedly committed

Answer 627

A

Lop
To cut off (a part), especially from a tree or shrub: lopped off the dead branches.
2. To cut off a part or parts from; trim: lopped the vines back; lopped her curls shorter.
3. To eliminate or excise as superfluous: lopped him from the payroll.

Answer 628

A

Deception

Answer 629

A

Batter

Battered women

Answer 630

A

Daredevil

Answer 631

A

Your Ladyship

Answer 632

A

Voiceless

Answer 633

A

Nap

to be caught napping

Answer 634

A

Oversight

Answer 635

A

fallacy [ˈfæləsi]

it is a fallacy that

Answer 636

A

Jangle
My nerves were jangling
The bell jangled noisily

Answer 637

A

Cobble

Cobbler: cordonnier

Answer 638

A

Carry out

Answer 639

A

flush someone or something out

Answer 640

A

jarring

The orange curtains with the purple carpet had a jarring effect

Answer 641

A

Fink out
rat out
He tried to rat out at the last minute

Answer 642

A

Stand out

Answer 643

A

Ratchet

A ratchet screwdriver

Answer 644

A

Binge-watch

Answer 645

A

Carve out

Answer 646

A

Commotion

Answer 647

A

To be on the rebound

Answer 648

A

Widens

Wireless déployable net work system

Answer 649

A

The dice is cast

Answer 650

A

mu·nif·i·cent (myo͞o-nĭf′ĭ-sənt)
adj.
1. Very liberal in giving; generous: a munificent benefactor.
2. Showing great generosity: a munificent gif

Answer 651

A

Not to lay a glove on

Answer 652

A

Closing in

Answer 653

A

Get busted

Answer 654

A

Jack
jack up
to raise (a motor car etc) and keep it supported, with a jack. You need to jack up the car before you try to remove the wheel

Answer 655

A

Blunt-force injury

Answer 656

A

Bar mitzvah
Bar(son)
Mitzvah((commandement)

Answer 657

A

Gibberish

Answer 658

A

We’ve been screwed

Answer 659

A

Erstwhile

Answer 660

A

whack [ˈhwæk] vt → donner un grand coup à

Answer 661

A

You rock!

Answer 662

A

squelch
He squelched across the turf
the sucking sound made by movement in a thick, sticky substance eg mud

Answer 663

A

High and dry

Answer 664

A

Scurry

To scurry for cover

Answer 665

A

Discrepancy

Answer 666

A

Innkeeper

Answer 667

A

Tycoon

a business tycoon

Answer 668

A

Panhandling

Answer 669

A

To glimpse

Answer 670

A

Conservatory

Answer 671

A

Blatantly
It was blatantly unfair
it’s blatantly obvious

Answer 672

A

Ninny

Simpleton

Answer 673

A

Flounce

She flounced out of the room

Answer 674

A

wrongful dismissal

Answer 675

A

lather [ˈlɑːðər]
to get in a lather over sth (= get agitated)
lather (ˈlaːðə) noun
1. foam made up of soap bubbles. Add the soap to the water and work up a good lather
2. a foam of sweat appearing eg on a horse’s neck. écume

Answer 676

A

Undeterred

Answer 677

A

Radiance

the radiance of her smile

Answer 678

A

Impecunious

Answer 679

A

slander, libel, defame, backbite, malign, vilify
(= calomnier) → to defame;
(oralement) → to slander;
(par écrit) → to libel

Answer 680

A

Wheelbarrow

Answer 681

A

Streamline

Answer 682

A

beeline [ˈbiːlaɪn] n

to make a beeline for sth

Answer 683

A

Case load

Answer 684

A

bout (baut) noun

a period (of). a bout of coughing
a (usually boxing) contest. a bout of fifteen five-minute rounds.combat

Answer 685

A

Hash

to smoke hash

Answer 686

A

Hindrance

Answer 687

A

moat (məut) noun

a deep ditch, dug round a castle etc, usually filled with water.

Answer 688

A

Bungee cord

Bungee jumping: saut à l’élastique

Answer 689

A

Better off

Answer 690

A

To do sb bidding

Answer 691

A

Unsung
Unsung deeds
An unsung hero

Answer 692

A

lounge

, lounge around vi (= idle around) → paresser

Answer 693

A

Antsy

The long wait made the children antsy.

Answer 694

A

Blackmail

Answer 695

A

Dicey

it’s a bit dicey

Answer 696

A

darn tootin’
. You’re dern tootin’!
Rur. You are absolutely right! (Never the full form tooting.) Tom: Are you really going to take up boxing? Bob: You’re dern tootin’!

Answer 697

A

Cast off

Cast-off

Answer 698

A

Handcuffs

Manacles

Answer 699

A

Sophistry

Answer 700

A

Easy as pie

Answer 701

A

Bottoms up

Answer 702

A

The company is struggling

Answer 703

A

Soldier on

Answer 704

A

Frown

Scowl

Answer 705

A

Keel over

Answer 706

A

swamp [ˈswɒmp]
(= fill with water) [+ boat, field] → inonder
to be swamped with sth (= snowed under) [+ tourists, work, calls, applications] → être inondé(e) de qch

Answer 707

A

Propose to sb

Answer 708

A

Snip

I snipped off two inches of thread

Answer 709

A

A red-eye flight

Answer 710

A

Marrowbone

Answer 711

A

Change up

Answer 712

A

Shake off

Answer 713

A

Germane

An idea germane to the conversation

Answer 714

A

Spate
a spate of [+ attacks, scandals] → une vague de
to be in spate [river] → être en crue

Answer 715

A

Actionable

Answer 716

A

Ram

He rammed the key into the lock

Answer 717

A

Foreclosure

Answer 718

A

Brass ring

Answer 719

A

Disclosure

Answer 720

A

Faltering

Answer 721

A

Jaywalking

Answer 722

A

Time pass

Answer 723

A

A la carte
Voilà
De rigueur

Answer 724

A

Turn around

Answer 725

A

broach
We broached our plans for the new year
2. To pierce in order to draw off liquid: broach a keg of beer.

Answer 726

A

Heel

Well-heeled

Answer 727

A

Commingle

Answer 728

A

Woo

Courtship ritual

Answer 729

A

to be under strain [person] → être sous pression
He’s been under a lot of strain → Il a été soumis à une pression importante.
to be a strain → être éprouvant(e)
It was a strain → C’était éprouvant

Answer 730

A

Up in arms

Mom was really up in arms after I dented her brand-new car

Answer 731

A

Sash
a white dress with a red sash at the waist
A sash window

Answer 732

A

C-section

Answer 733

A

Hopscotch

Answer 734

A

Leftover

The leftover chicken will make a wonderful salad

Answer 735

A

dispense with

We could economize by dispensing with two assistants

Answer 736

A

Flinch

He flinched away from the sudden heat

Answer 737

A

Speak out

Answer 738

A

Breadwinner

Answer 739

A

Harbinger

Answer 740

A

Slyrocket

Answer 741

A

Scurrilous

Answer 742

A

Gsw

Gun shot wound

Answer 743

A

Trenchant

Answer 744

A

Autopilot

Answer 745

A

maid, parlour-maid, domestic, handmaid, handmaiden

Answer 746

A

Druthers
f I had my druthers, I’d dance all night
(D+rather)

Answer 747

A

Strive

To strive for something

Answer 748

A

You betcha!

Answer 749

A

Greenhorn

Answer 750

A

Goldfish bowl

Answer 751

A

Relish

She relishes the challenge

Answer 752

A

Out of whack

Answer 753

A

Poppycock

Answer 754

A

In spite of

Answer 755

A

Mazel tov

Answer 756

A

Come along

Answer 757

A

Rigmarole

Answer 758

A

In business, something (an idea, or plan, usually) set up to be knocked down. It’s the dangerous philosophy of presenting one mediocre idea, so that the listener will make the choice of the better idea which follows.

Answer 759

A

go about

to (begin to) work at. I don’t know the best way to go about the job! se mettre à
(of a ship) to change direction or turn around. virer de bord

Answer 760

A

Apex
the apex of a triangle;
the apex of a person’s career

Answer 761

A

The apple of my eye

Answer 762

A

Underrated

Answer 763

A

Bridegroom

Answer 764

A

I do
I will
Yeah
Certainly
Sure(us)

Answer 765

A

Sag

There were so many books on the shelf that it sagged

Answer 766

A

Where the rubber meet. the road

Answer 767

A

Ballpark figure

Answer 768

A

Feel blue

Answer 769

A

In/out commission

Answer 770

A

Tenfold

the population increased tenfold.

Answer 771

A

Bible

AC (acts of the

Answer 772

A

Godfather

Goddaughter

Answer 773

A

Fire away

Answer 774

A

Nook, cranny

Answer 775

A

Lumberjack

Answer 776

A

Alleviate

Answer 777

A

By your leave

Answer 778

A

Gobble

You’ll be sick if you keep gobbling your meals like that

Answer 779

A

Batten down the hatches!

Answer 780

A

Firecracker

Answer 781

A

I didn’t mean it/to
It was wrong of me
I was wrong to
I should never have
My bad!

Answer 782

A

outlandish

This idea is not as outlandish as it sounds

Answer 783

A

To and fro

Answer 784

A

Plea-bargain

Answer 785

A

On the warpath

Answer 786

A

Reach out

Answer 787

A

Challenge

Answer 788

A

Fair enough

Answer 789

A

Down on one’s luck

At that time he was down on his luck

Answer 790

A

Displeased

The children’s behaviour displeased their father.

Answer 791

A

Flagstone

Answer 792

A

Entanglement

Answer 793

A

To intermingle

Answer 794

A

Poodle and puddle

Answer 795

A

Deadliest

Answer 796

A

To get an eyeful

Answer 797

A

Spelunking

Answer 798

A

Paramedic

Answer 799

A

Louse, body louse

Cootie

Answer 800

A

Beguile

to beguile sb into doing sth

Answer 801

A

Gibberish

Answer 802

A

reverse [rɪˈvɜːrs]
(= opposite)
They may do the reverse of what you want
in reverse (= backwards) → à l’envers

Answer 803

A

Afresh

to start afresh

Answer 804

A

Affidavit

Answer 805

A

get into

to put on (clothes etc). Get into your pyjamas.mettre
to begin to be in a particular state or behave in a particular way. He got into a temper.se mettre
to affect strangely. I don’t know what has got into himobséder

Answer 806

A

Gattling gun

Answer 807

A

Crawler

Crawler lane

Answer 808

A

tenet

du latin tenere

Answer 809

A

dally [ˈdæli] vi
(= dawdle)
(= flirt) to dally with sb → badiner amoureusement avec qn
to dally with an idea → caresser une idée

Answer 810

A

Chicken out

Answer 811

A

to gather momentum [process, movement] → s’accélérer

(PHYSICS) → quantité f de mouvement

Answer 812

A

Dragonfly

Answer 813

A

Gotcha

Got you

Answer 814

A

Coarse

The bag was made of coarse cloth

Answer 815

A

Sound

Sound asleep

Answer 816

A

Happenstance

Answer 817

A

Longshoreman

Answer 818

A

To run amok

Answer 819

A

Purview

Craning her neck, [she] extends her purview to the faculty lounge

Answer 820

A

Disputant

Answer 821

A

A bad patch

Answer 822

A

Ornery, cantankerous

Answer 823

A

Disreputable

Answer 824

A

Chastened

Answer 825

A

Poverty

Low-income

Answer 826

A

Dismissal

Answer 827

A

Rife

Hollywood soon became rife with rumors

Answer 828

A

Pabulum

TV … gobbled up comedy material and spat it out as pabulum

Answer 829

A

Throwback

Answer 830

A

Crumple
to make or become wrinkled or creased.
This material crumples easily;
She crumpled up the piece of paper.

Answer 831

A

Floodlight

There were floodlights in the sports stadium

Answer 832

A

Grand-sire

Answer 833

A

Come over

Answer 834

A

Darn

Darn it !

Answer 835

A

Top notch

Answer 836

A

Nail-biter

Answer 837

A

Quote-unquote

Answer 838

A

Loathsome

Answer 839

A

Starving
Ravenous 
famished [ˈfæmɪʃt] adj
(lit) (= starving) → affamé(e)
(= very hungry) I'm famished! → je meurs de faim!

Answer 840

A

Likelihood

Answer 841

A

compete, rival, vie, contend

Answer 842

A

Wan
Faint
Sallow

Answer 843

A

Victual

Vittel(ancien)

Answer 844

A

Whatchamacallit

Whatsit

Answer 845

A

Terraqueous

Answer 846

A

Station wagon

Answer 847

A

Onion routing

Answer 848

A

Ravish

Rape

Answer 849

A

Abbuz

To be abuzz with something

Answer 850

A

Comeupance

Answer 851

A

Ponderous

Answer 852

A

Scrimp

She scrimps and saves for her sons’ education.

Answer 853

A

Seesaw
The boy fell off the seesaw in the park
to move up and down like a seesaw. The boat seesawed on the crest of the wave

Answer 854

A

Battlement

Answer 855

A

White out

Answer 856

A

To up the ante

Answer 857

A

Chivalrous

Answer 858

A

Intermission

Answer 859

A

Godforsaken

Answer 860

A

Shiv

a knife, esp. a switchblade

Answer 861

A

Dietician

Answer 862

A

Threw over

To overturn: threw the cart over.
To abandon: threw over her boyfriend of four years; threw over the company they themselves had founded.
To reject.

Answer 863

A

Ambulance chaser

Answer 864

A

Flood

The bathroom is flooded

Answer 865

A

Dispassion

Answer 866

A

Creep up on

Answer 867

A

Undercarriage

Answer 868

A

truncheon, bludgeon, club, cosh

Answer 869

A

Put a bow on it

Answer 870

A

Beaver away

Answer 871

A

Posy

Nosegay

Answer 872

A

Figment

a figment of sb’s imagination

Answer 873

A

Rebuke

he boy was rebuked by his teacher for cheating

Answer 874

A

Farewell

to bid sb farewell

Answer 875

A

Contempt

scorn

Answer 876

A

suitcase, valise, grip, portmanteau, case
faire sa valise → to pack one’s suitcase
la valise diplomatique → the diplomatic bag
Ma valise est arrivée abîmée → My suitcase has arrived damaged

Answer 877

A

Smolder, smoulder

Answer 878

A

gee! Haw !

Answer 879

A

Upheaval

Moving house causes a great upheaval

Answer 880

A

Hardliner

Answer 881

A

Coronation

Answer 882

A

Drizzle

it is drizzling

Answer 883

A

Anderson shelter

Answer 884

A

Stealthily

Answer 885

A

Pristine
pristine white → d’un blanc immaculé
in pristine condition → à l’état neuf

Answer 886

A

Sure fire

Answer 887

A

Attentive, paying attention
Mindful
Careful

Answer 888

A

beforehand (-hand) adverb

before the time when something else is done. If you’re coming, let me know beforehand

Answer 889

A

I staggered to the nearest chair

Answer 890

A

To carry water

Answer 891

A

kinky [ˈkɪŋki] adj [sex] → olé olé inv
kinky rubber underwear → des dessous olé olé en latex
to be kinky [person]
I’ve heard he’s a bit kinky → J’ai entendu dire qu’il avait des goûts spéciaux.

Answer 892

A

Attention span

Answer 893

A

Dime

To be a dime a dozen

Answer 894

A

Willful

willful disobedience

Answer 895

A

Sound bite

Answer 896

A

cling
The mud clung to her shoes;
She clung to her husband as he said goodbye;
He clings to an impossible hope;
The boat clung to (= stayed close to) the coastline

Answer 897

A

Transvestite

Answer 898

A

Anomalus

For years his anomalous behaviour has baffled scientists.

Answer 899

A

Heinous

showed up wearing that heinous shirt

Answer 900

A

Crips

Bloods

Answer 901

A

Mendacious

Answer 902

A

Slip
to give sb the slip
a slip of the tongue

Answer 903

A

Phiz

Fizzog

Answer 904

A

Hold together

The children held the family together

Answer 905

A

Take a course

Answer 906

A

bloodline
the descendants of one individual
his entire lineage has been warriors

Answer 907

A

Turn in

They turned the escapers in to the police

Answer 908

A

Corny

Trite

Answer 909

A

Blackberry

Answer 910

A

forthright

to be forthright about sth → ne pas mâcher ses mots à propos de qch

Answer 911

A

To go caving

Answer 912

A

Draw near

Answer 913

A

To blend together

Answer 914

A

Nope
Nah
No way
Sorry
Not likely
Unfortunately not
I’m afraid not

Answer 915

A

Lunacy

It’s sheer lunacy

Answer 916

A

Cartridge

Answer 917

A

Smalltime

Answer 918

A

Parting shot

Answer 919

A

Business rate

Answer 920

A

Blemish

Nobody wanted to blemish his reputation at that time

Answer 921

A

Obliterate

Answer 922

A

Titmouse
Bluetit

I-cincia

Answer 923

A

Mercurial

Answer 924

A

Snag

We did not realize at first how many snags there were in our plan

Answer 925

A

Bring/take/call to task

Answer 926

A

Gyp ( de gypsy)

Answer 927

A

Wiggle room

Answer 928

A

Curtsy, curtsey

Answer 929

A

Effing

Voir fuck

Answer 930

A

Poker face

Answer 931

A

To play blind man’s buff

Answer 932

A

Barkeep

Barista

Answer 933

A

Barrister

Answer 934

A

Junk food

Answer 935

A

Philandering

Answer 936

A

Endow
Endowment
She was endowed with great beauty

Answer 937

A

Shorn

Pp de shear

Answer 938

A

Sod it !
Sod all !
Sod you !
Sod off !

Answer 939

A

Impregnable

Answer 940

A

Restraint

Answer 941

A

Boil over

Answer 942

A

Woe betide

Answer 943

A

Squander

Waste

Answer 944

A

Waging a war

Answer 945

A

Appaling

She’s an appalling cook

Answer 946

A

tachespot, stain, blot, blotch, smudge, mark, splash, blob, smear

Answer 947

A

Fall apart

Answer 948

A

On the lam

escaped convicts on the lam.

Answer 949

A

fawn

Fawn upon
fawn on, fawn over vt fus (= flatter) → passer de la pommade à, flatter servilement

Answer 950

A

Undercover

Answer 951

A

scoot [ˈskuːt] vi (= move quickly) → filer
Amelia scooted over to him, hands on hips → Amelia fila vers lui, les mains sur les hanches.
Sam scooted up the stairs
BUT Sam monta les marches quatre à quatre

Answer 952

A

Ark of the covenant

Answer 953

A

Move along

Answer 954

A

On the sly

Answer 955

A

Stickler

to be a stickler for sth

Answer 956

A

Fading

Waning

Answer 957

A

Willy-nilly

Answer 958

A

Give away

Answer 959

A

saddle [ˈsædəl]
n [horse] → selle f
to be in the saddle (lit) (= riding a horse) → être en selle (fig) (= in control) → être aux commandes
vt
[+ horse] → seller
to be saddled with sth (= landed with) → avoir qch sur les bras

Answer 960

A

Stink, reek

Answer 961

A

Tuck away

Answer 962

A

Rustle

She rustled her paper

Answer 963

A

Furze

Gorse

Answer 964

A

to be in the limelight
lime
the white substance left after heating limestone, used in making cement. chaux

limestone
a kind of rock. calcaire

Answer 965

A

Fairytale

Answer 966

A

TMI

too much informations

Answer 967

A

In a nutshell

Answer 968

A

Get ahold of

Answer 969

A

Gleam

the gleam of her eyes.

Answer 970

A

Stationary

Answer 971

A

Rehearsal

Answer 972

A

Ruckus

to cause a ruckus

Answer 973

A

ˈheartfelt adjective

heartfelt thanks

Answer 974

A

Buffet

to be buffeted by waves

Answer 975

A

Grim

grim reality

Answer 976

A

elope [ɪˈləʊp] vi [lovers] → s’enfuir ensemble
to elope with sb → s’enfuir avec qn (pour l’épouser)
to run away secretly, especially with a lover.

Answer 977

A

John Bull

A personification of England or the English.
A typical Englishman

Answer 978

A

Drawstring

Answer 979

A

Handheld

A digital device, such as a computer, PDA, or cell phone, that is small enough to be held and operated in one hand.

Answer 980

A

Hold forth

Answer 981

A

Boob

Boobies

Answer 982

A

Go to the mattresse

Answer 983

A

Shrimp, prawn
I- gamberetto
D- Shrimp, Garnele

Answer 984

A

Posh

A posh hotel

Answer 985

A

fortnight
I'm going on holiday for a fortnight
I hope to be back in a fortnight
It's a fortnight since
in the past fortnight
a fortnight's holiday

Answer 986

A

High-hat

Hi-hat

Answer 987

A

Keep shtoom

Shut up

Answer 988

A

Falling-out

Answer 989

A

Exhilaration

Answer 990

A

hound [ˈhaʊnd]
vt (= pursue) → poursuivre avec acharnement
to be hounded by the press [celebrity, politician]
n
(= dog) → chien m
(= dog used in fox hunting) → chien m courant, chien m de meute
the hounds → la meute

Answer 991

A

Impervious

Answer 992

A

Stamp out

Answer 993

A

Double entendre

Answer 994

A

Strapping

Answer 995

A

Ampersand

Answer 996

A

Crony

He spent the evening drinking with his cronies

Answer 997

A

pro bo·no (prō bō′nō)
adj.
Provided free or at low cost to certain legal clients in order to serve the public good: a lawyer’s pro bono representation of low-income families.

Answer 998

A

Confess, admit

Answer 999

A

Submissive

Answer 1000

A

Point-blank

Answer 1001

A

Collywobbles

Answer 1002

A

Housewarming

Answer 1003

A

Cower

He was cowering away from the fierce dog

Answer 1004

A

Rob Peter to pay Paul

Answer 1005

A

Stunt bunt

Body double

Answer 1006

A

Blow yourself

Answer 1007

A

Hassle

it’s not worth the hassle

Answer 1008

A

flay [ˈfleɪ] vt
(= skin) [+ person, animal] → écorcher
to be flayed alive → être écorché(e) vif(vive)
(= criticize severely) → éreinter

Answer 1009

A

cool down

to make or become less warm. Let your food cool down a bit!
to make or become less excited or less emotional. He was very angry but he’s cooled down now

Answer 1010

A

outset [ˈaʊtsɛt] n → début m
at the outset → au début
from the outset → dès le début

Answer 1011

A

Well up

Strong emotions welled up

Answer 1012

A

Disembowel

Answer 1013

A

Catchment

Answer 1014

A

Skating rink

Answer 1015

A

Watertight

Answer 1016

A

Harbour , harbor

Answer 1017

A

Cattle call

Answer 1018

A

Knock over

Answer 1019

A

Tautologic

Answer 1020

A

Valedictorian

Answer 1021

A

Kept woman

Answer 1022

A

Egregious

Answer 1023

A

Underneath

I got out of the car and looked underneath

Answer 1024

A

Overdraft

Answer 1025

A

Kinslayer

Answer 1026

A

Marmelize

Answer 1027

A

Threshold

Answer 1028

A

Stultifying

Answer 1029

A

Upbringing

Answer 1030

A

Free mason

Answer 1031

A

Nefarious

Answer 1032

A

Internship

Answer 1033

A

Tommy

[1880–85; short for Tommy Atkins]

Answer 1034

A

expedient (ikˈspiːdiənt) adjective

convenient or advisable. It is not expedient to pay him what he has asked

Answer 1035

A

keen (kiːn) adjective

eager or enthusiastic. He is a keen golfer; I’m keen to succeed.fervent
sharp. Her eyesight is as keen as ever.perçant
(of wind etc) very cold and biting. piquant

Answer 1036

A

Estranged

Answer 1037

A

Mains

Put it off at the mains

Answer 1038

A

To waste time or money on a boondoggle.

Answer 1039

A

Over easy

Answer 1040

A

Commencement

Answer 1041

A

Absent-minded

Answer 1042

A

Slugging,[1] also known as casual carpooling, is the practice of forming ad hoc, informal carpools for purposes of commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking. Typically slugging is motivated by an incentive such as a faster HOV lane or a toll reduction
(High Occupancy vehicle)

Answer 1043

A

Rastafarianism

Pour eux, le Messie est Haile Selassie, 1er Empereur d’Ethiopie

Answer 1044

A

loophole [ˈluːphəʊl] n (in law, legislation) → lacune f; (in argument) → faille f
a legal loophole → un vide juridique
a tax loophole → une lacune dans la législation fiscale
to close a loophole → combler une lacune

Answer 1045

A

Waistline

Answer 1046

A

Gain ground

His views were once unacceptable but are now gaining ground rapidly

Answer 1047

A

Stairwell

Answer 1048

A

Bridesmaid
I- damigella
D- Brautjungfer

Answer 1049

A

Stronghold

Answer 1050

A

Mull over

Answer 1051

A

To have a way with

Answer 1052

A

Distemper

Latin temper: to mindle

Answer 1053

A

Despondent

Answer 1054

A

fumbling
showing lack of skill or aptitude; “a bungling workman”; “did a clumsy job”;
“his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf”

Answer 1055

A

Repository

Answer 1056

A

Goobledygook

Answer 1057

A

Crackerjack

Answer 1058

A

With hindsight

Answer 1059

A

Blissfully

Answer 1060

A

Smooth-talk

Answer 1061

A

Eagerness

Answer 1062

A

do up

To adorn or dress lavishly: The children were all done up in matching outfits.
To wrap and tie (a package).
To fasten: do up the buttons on a dress.

Answer 1063

A

Purported

the purported author of the story.

Answer 1064

A

Forthwith

Answer 1065

A

Suffice it to say

Suffice it to say that the judge was furious when the invitation was withdrawn

Answer 1066

A

Better off

Answer 1067

A

Gunslinger

Answer 1068

A

Hobgoblin

Answer 1069

A

Shun

Steer clear of

Answer 1070

A

Battlement

Answer 1071

A

Task force

Answer 1072

A

Carping

They deserve recognition, not carping criticism

Answer 1073

A

Red-handed

Answer 1074

A

hoax [ˈhəʊks]
n → canular m
bomb hoax

Answer 1075

A

Stick around

“Stay put in the corner here!”; “Stick around and you will learn something!

Answer 1076

A

Foretell

to foretell the future from the stars.

Answer 1077

A

Janky

Sorry that my room is so janky.

Answer 1078

A

Elaborate

Answer 1079

A

Contraction of am not.

2. Used also as a contraction for are not, is not, has not, and have not.

Answer 1080

A

e•gre•gious (ɪˈgri dʒəs, -dʒi əs)

adj.
extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant: an egregious mistake; an egregious liar

Answer 1081

A

Drift

I catch your drift

Answer 1082

A

Tumble-dryer

Answer 1083

A

Now I can read at my leisure → Maintenant je peux lire tout à loisir

Answer 1084

A

Put on
Affect
Sham
Simulate

Answer 1085

A

Madness, insanity

Answer 1086

A

Yank sb’ chain

Answer 1087

A

Spew, spew out
Dense smoke spewed from the factories

Spew up

Answer 1088

A

put up with

to bear patiently. I cannot put up with all this noise

Answer 1089

A

To go AWOL

Absent Without Leave

Answer 1090

A

Spike

The fence had long spikes on top

Answer 1091

A

Lunge

Her attacker lunged at her with a knife.

Answer 1092

A

Drop-dead

Answer 1093

A

Conundrum

Answer 1094

A

Homestead

Answer 1095

A

Restorative

Answer 1096

A

to be in uproar (= chaos)

The courtroom was in uproar

Answer 1097

A

Fall out

Fallouts

Answer 1098

A

dredge
to deepen or clear the bed of (a river etc) by bringing up mud
a boat with apparatus for dredging

Answer 1099

A

Pitch black

Answer 1100

A

betray, double-cross, sell down the river, traitor

Answer 1101

A

Torch

The madman torched the barns

Answer 1102

A

Clatter

To clatter down the steps

Answer 1103

A

Vernacular

They spoke to each other in the vernacular of the region

Answer 1104

A

Betrothed

Answer 1105

A

cribbage
A card game for from two to four players in which the score is kept by inserting small pegs into holes arranged in rows on a small board

Answer 1106

A

sleet [ˈsliːt] n → neige f fondue

it’s sleeting → il tombe de la neige fondue

Answer 1107

A

political ferment, social unrest

Answer 1108

A

Bossiness

Answer 1109

A

Counterfeit

Answer 1110

A

A black eye

Answer 1111

A

Highfalutin

Answer 1112

A

Mistletoe

Answer 1113

A

Sell out

We sold out our entire stock

Answer 1114

A

Partridge

Answer 1115

A

Amanuensis

Answer 1116

A

Glut

There has been a glut of apples this year

Answer 1117

A

Loom

to appear indistinctly, often threateningly. A huge ship loomed (up) in the fog

Answer 1118

A

bring up

to rear or educate. Her parents brought her up to be polite
to introduce (a matter) for discussion. Bring the matter up at the next meeting

Answer 1119

A

Chill out

Answer 1120

A

sought-after

Answer 1121

A

Wear down

Answer 1122

A

Summerize

Answer 1123

A

Forbearance

Answer 1124

A

Rub off on someone or something

We hoped some of their good manners would rub off on our children

Answer 1125

A

Ascot
A village of south-central England west of London. The Royal Ascot horseraces, initiated by Queen Anne in 1711, are held annually in June on Ascot Heath

Answer 1126

A

Consummate

Answer 1127

A

Ringleader

Answer 1128

A

Earl Scruggs

Answer 1129

A

double up

to (cause to) bend or collapse suddenly at the waist. We (were) doubled up with laughter; He received a blow in the stomach which doubled him up
to join up in pairs. There weren’t enough desks, so some pupils had to double up.partager

Answer 1130

A

Speak ill of

Answer 1131

A

Livelihood

Answer 1132

A

Outsource

Answer 1133

A

Well-trodden

Answer 1134

A

Single out

Answer 1135

A

Jones

To have an eager or intense desire: was jonesing for caffeine.

Answer 1136

A

Subpoena

Latin under penalty

Answer 1137

A

Cheapskate

Answer 1138

A

Snip

a snip of the scissors

The ring was a snip at twenty-five pounds

He’s had the snip

Answer 1139

A

Groundhog

Answer 1140

A

Sickeningly

Answer 1141

A

White hat

Answer 1142

A

Credenza

Credence table

Answer 1143

A

Columnist

Answer 1144

A

Subwoofer

Answer 1145

A

Contented

Answer 1146

A

Off the hook

Answer 1147

A

Custodian

Answer 1148

A

Jitter

to get the jitters in an empty house

Answer 1149

A

Reverse culture choc

Answer 1150

A

lampoon, lampooning

Answer 1151

A

Cash-strapped

Answer 1152

A

Bygone

let bygones be bygones → passons l’éponge, oublions le passé

Answer 1153

A

Space blanket

Answer 1154

A

sleigh (slei) noun

a usually large sledge pulled by a horse

Answer 1155

A

Jelly

Jell-O (dessert aux fruits)

Answer 1156

A

Cauldron, caldron

Answer 1157

A

Lo and behold

I walked into the restaurant and, lo and behold, there was my boss with his wife

Answer 1158

A

to turn up

Answer 1159

A

Linger on

Answer 1160

A

Dispel

His words dispelled our fears

Answer 1161

A

bestow [bɪˈstəʊ] vt [+ favour] →
to bestow sth on sb [+ honour, title]
The Queen has bestowed a knighthood

Answer 1162

A

boulder (ˈbəuldə) noun
a large rock or stone.
a boulder on the hillside

Answer 1163

A

Hell-raiser

person who behaves in a rowdy, riotous manner.

Answer 1164

A

Under duress

Answer 1165

A

What is the material?

Answer 1166

A

Right away

Answer 1167

A

Cockamamie adj. Slang

Trifling; nearly valueless.
Ludicrous; nonsensical: gave me a cockamamie reason for not going

Answer 1168

A

Flim-flam

Answer 1169

A

Put up to

Answer 1170

A

grapple [ˈgræpəl] vi
to grapple with sth [+ problem]
grappling iron n → grappin m

Answer 1171

A

Insane

Mad

Answer 1172

A

Mend fences

Answer 1173

A

Weasel out

Answer 1174

A

Scullery

a room for rough kitchen work such as cleaning pots, pans etc

Answer 1175

A

Byproduct

Answer 1176

A

Dry processing

Answer 1177

A

Gust

gusts of wind of up to eighty kilometres an hour

Answer 1178

A

Bumptious

Answer 1179

A

Contentious

Answer 1180

A

Be headed

Answer 1181

A

Thumb nose

Answer 1182

A

Hamstrung

Answer 1183

A

Doozy

a doozy of a hailstorm.

Answer 1184

A

To be on par with

Answer 1185

A

behold

What a sight to behold

Answer 1186

A

Hang back

Answer 1187

A

Crop up

Something has cropped up

Answer 1188

A

to praise

Answer 1189

A

Trunk, proboscis

Answer 1190

A

Hand over
We know you have the jewels, so hand them over;
They handed the thief over to the police

Answer 1191

A

Threesome

Answer 1192

A

Four leaf clover

Answer 1193

A

Grub

The pigs were grubbing around for roots

Answer 1194

A

Slap,

Skelp

Answer 1195

A

Patronize

Answer 1196

A

wail, yell, bellow, howl, howling, row, screech, scream

Answer 1197

A

Foil

She wrapped the meat in foil

Answer 1198

A

There’s the rub

Answer 1199

A

crime, felony, enormity, foul play, wrong

Answer 1200

A

Cockroach

Answer 1201

A

Petticoat

Answer 1202

A

Hump

Humpback

Answer 1203

A

Sticky

Gooey

Answer 1204

A

Reluctantly

Answer 1205

A

Dependable

Answer 1206

A

There was a mad scramble for the back seat → Il y eut une folle bousculade pour la place du fond.
(= competition) → lutte f
in their scramble for top spot in the charts → dans leur lutte pour la première place au hit-parade

Answer 1207

A

Astounding

Answer 1208

A

Promiscuous

Answer 1209

A

Embezzele

Answer 1210

A

Fortitude

Answer 1211

A

Congregant (US

Answer 1212

A

Step up

The firm must step up production

Answer 1213

A

Self-catering

Answer 1214

A

Labour Party

Answer 1215

A

Amenity

This part of town has a lot of amenities – good shops, parks

Answer 1216

A

upstate - in or toward the northern parts of a state

“he lives upstate New York

Answer 1217

A

Lisp

He speaks with a slight lisp

Answer 1218

A

Come along

Answer 1219

A

Swimming trunks

Answer 1220

A

Sleazy

a sleazy hotel

Answer 1221

A

Foreboding

Answer 1222

A

Early days

Answer 1223

A

fraught [ˈfrɔːt] adj
(= stressful) [situation, day] → stressant(e)
(= full) fraught with [+ difficulties, problems] → chargé(e) de; [+ danger] → plein(e) de

Answer 1224

A

Scum (écume)

Answer 1225

A

Methinks

It seems to me

Answer 1226

A

Whine

They were whining about their problems

Answer 1227

A

Ludicrous

Answer 1228

A

Stag party

Answer 1229

A

Take on

Hire

Answer 1230

A

To be shortsighted

Answer 1231

A

to leer at sb

Answer 1232

A

Cloud nine

Answer 1233

A

Cornflower

Answer 1234

A

The big five
US, Britain, Soviet Union, China and France
2. the lion, the elephant, the rhinoceros, the buffalo, and the leopard: considered to be the five principal African wild animals,

Answer 1235

A

Shekel
Scratch
Moola

Answer 1236

A

Offspring

Answer 1237

A

Foreboding

Answer 1238

A

grasp
1. to take hold of especially by putting one’s fingers or arm(s) round.
He grasped the rope;
He grasped the opportunity to ask for a higher salary
2. to understand. I can’t grasp what he’s getting at.saisir

Answer 1239

A

Night-cap

Answer 1240

A

Hem and haw

Answer 1241

A

Bewilderment

Answer 1242

A

Sponge, mop up

Answer 1243

A

To look up to

Answer 1244

A

Discrepancy

Answer 1245

A

Wrestling

Answer 1246

A

Beget

Violence begets more violence.

Answer 1247

A

Anew

To Start Life anew

Answer 1248

A

jug [ˈdʒʌg] n (small, for milk) → pot m; (large) → cruche f
Could we have a jug of water, please? → Pourrions nous avoir une carafe d’eau s’il vous plaît?jugged hare [ˈdʒʌgd] n (British) → civet m de lièvre

Answer 1249

A

Outfit

She bought a new outfit for the wedding

Answer 1250

A

tizzy [ˈtɪzi] n
to be in a tizzy → être dans tous ses états
T-junction [ˈtiːdʒʌŋkʃən] n → carrefour m en T

Answer 1251

A

Overwhelmed

Answer 1252

A

Whit

(usually used with a negative) the smallest particle; iota; jot: he has changed not a whit.

Answer 1253

A

Demur

To demur at doing something

Answer 1254

A

Sieve

He poured the soup through a sieve to remove all the lumps

Answer 1255

A

Belay

To be made secure.
Used in the imperative as an order to stop: Belay there!

Answer 1256

A

Masterpiece

Answer 1257

A

Concussion

Answer 1258

A

Melt away

Answer 1259

A

Ascertain

Answer 1260

A

Deception

Answer 1261

A

Hand-on

hands-on experience with computers

Answer 1262

A

Hacktivist

Answer 1263

A

Earl
a British nobleman of a rank below that of marquis and above that of viscount: called a count for a time after the Norman Conquest. The wife of an earl is a countess.

Answer 1264

A

Underling

Answer 1265

A

Avenue

(fig) (= approach) → piste f
to explore every avenue

Answer 1266

A

scrap
a fight. He tore his jacket in a scrap with another
The dogs were scrapping over a bone

Answer 1267

A

bounder [ˈbaʊndər] n (British) (old-fashioned) (= cad) → goujat m

Answer 1268

A

Corrugate

Answer 1269

A

Ironclad
An ironclad warship.
2. inflexible; rigid: an ironclad rule.

Answer 1270

A

Muckle, mickle

Answer 1271

A

rapt (rӕpt) adjective

fascinated (usually in admiration). He listened to the speaker with rapt attention.

Answer 1272

A

Impersonating

Answer 1273

A

Verbatim

He gave me a verbatim report of the entire conversation

Answer 1274

A

Jar
a jar of honey
(= clash) [colours, styles]
The contrasting styles jarred

Answer 1275

A

Bricky brickie

Bricklayer

Answer 1276

A

Hardcore

hard-core pornography

Answer 1277

A

Vegetable patch

Answer 1278

A

Painkiller

Answer 1279

A

On the fritz

Answer 1280

A

many a

“many a man”; “many another day will come

Answer 1281

A

Cockeyed

Cockeyed ideas

Answer 1282

A

herald [ˈhɛrəld]
n
(= person) → héraut m
(= precursor) → précurseur m
The festival is the herald of a new age → Le festival est le précurseur d’une nouvelle époque.
vt → annoncer
to be heralded as sth (= trumpeted) → être salué(e) comme qch

Answer 1283

A

Bush- league

Answer 1284

A

Marshmallow

Answer 1285

A

Relent

At first she wouldn’t let them go to the cinema, but in the end she relented

Answer 1286

A

Take over

Answer 1287

A

To struggle

Answer 1288

A

Tally

He kept a tally of all the work he did.

Answer 1289

A

Show down

Answer 1290

A

Pettifogger

Answer 1291

A

Be gagging for

Answer 1292

A

Loot

The soldiers looted the shops of the captured town

Answer 1293

A

Drop the ball

Answer 1294

A

Upholstering

Answer 1295

A

Prosecution

Answer 1296

A

brunt [ˈbrʌnt] n
to bear the brunt of, to take the brunt of (= suffer the main force of) [+ attack] → recevoir le plus fort de; [+ criticism] → être l’objet or la cible de l’essentiel de; [+ sanctions, unemployment] → payer les frais de

Answer 1297

A

Highfive !

Answer 1298

A

Tamper

Don’t tamper with the engine

Answer 1299

A

Fealty

pledging oaths of homage and fealty

Answer 1300

A

Absconder

Answer 1301

A

Basket case

Answer 1302

A

Grouchy

He’s quite happy in his job although he’s always grouching (about it)

Answer 1303

A

Geddit

Do you get it?

Answer 1304

A

Depiction

Answer 1305

A

intertwine [ˌɪntərˈtwaɪn]
vt [+ narratives, strands, destinies] → entremêler
Their destinies are intertwined

Answer 1306

A

Inane

Inane questions

Answer 1307

A

Boxed

A boxed set of cds

Answer 1308

A

Stalemate

Answer 1309

A

Come through

Answer 1310

A

Put together

The vase broke, but I managed to put it together again

Answer 1311

A

Power plant

Answer 1312

A

outlive [ˌaʊtˈlɪv] vt
[+ person] → survivre à
to outlive its usefulness
avoir fait son temps

Answer 1313

A

Indignant

Answer 1314

A

Joyriding

Answer 1315

A

Endowment

Answer 1316

A

Perish the thought

I’m afraid that we need a new car. Perish the thought.

Answer 1317

A

Discontent

Answer 1318

A

Hydrangea

Answer 1319

A

sultry (ˈsaltri) adjective

(of weather) hot but cloudy, and likely to become stormy. étouffant
(of a person, especially a woman) passionate. sensuelˈsultriness noun

Answer 1320

A

Elevator shaft

Answer 1321

A

Revultion

Answer 1322

A

Kiss, buss

Answer 1323

A

Firelock, flintlock

Answer 1324

A

Gulp

to drink sth in one gulp

Answer 1325

A

Countenance

The question left him with a puzzled countenance.

Answer 1326

A

Incumbent

Answer 1327

A

Motley

a motley crew of drifters

Answer 1328

A

coast [ˈkəʊst]
the coast is clear → la voie est libre
vi
[car] → avancer en roue libre
(= take things easy) [organization, student] → se la couler douce
(= win easily) [team] → gagner facilement

Answer 1329

A

Ring a bell

. Your description rings a bell, but I don’t think I’ve ever been there myself.

Answer 1330

A

Gallivant

Answer 1331

A

Retaliation

Answer 1332

A

Dispute
to argue against or deny.
I’m not disputing what you say.contester

Answer 1333

A

Do away with

Answer 1334

A

Chink

to have a chink in one’s armour

Answer 1335

A

Get along

Answer 1336

A

Hereafter

The hereafter

Answer 1337

A

doff one’s clothes

Answer 1338

A

Suprasternal notch

Answer 1339

A

Wholesale

Answer 1340

A

Hourglass

Answer 1341

A

Pernickety

Answer 1342

A

Natter
to natter to sb
n (= chat) to have a natter

Answer 1343

A

Endeavour

Answer 1344

A

to suffer hardship
Many people are suffering economic hardship
it’s no hardship to do sth → ça n’est pas la mer à boire

Answer 1345

A

butt in

to interrupt or interfere. Don’t butt in while I’m speaking

Answer 1346

A

Craig’s list

Answer 1347

A

Hitch,thumb a ride,lift

Answer 1348

A

Reinstate

Answer 1349

A

swivel
(also swivel round) [person, chair] → pivoter, tourner
[eyes]
His eyes swivelled from one girl to the other

Answer 1350

A

Soldiering

Answer 1351

A

Emplane, enplane

Answer 1352

A

Haphazard

Answer 1353

A

With abandon

Answer 1354

A

Pict (pĭkt)
n.
One of an ancient people of northern Britain. They remained undefeated by the Romans and in the ninth century joined with the Scots to form a kingdom later to become Scotland

Answer 1355

A

disruptive
disrupt (disˈrapt) verb
to break up or put into a state of disorder. Rioters disrupted the meeting; Traffic was disrupted by floods

Answer 1356

A

Have kittens

Answer 1357

A

unreliable [ˌʌnrɪˈlaɪəbəl] adj
[person] → sur qui on ne peut pas compter, peu fiable
He’s completely unreliable

Answer 1358

A

Apron, pinafore

Answer 1359

A

Flounce off

Flounce in, flounce out

Answer 1360

A

Goblin
Elf
Sprite

Answer 1361

A

guddle (ˈɡʌdəl)
vb
(Angling) to catch (fish) by groping with the hands under the banks or stones of a stream

Answer 1362

A

Moot point

Answer 1363

A

Switcheroo

Answer 1364

A

To be a bar to sth

Answer 1365

A

Substitute

Answer 1366

A

Catch on the hop

Catch out

Answer 1367

A

Brimming with

Answer 1368

A

Pony, ponies

Answer 1369

A

Bliss
very great happiness.
the bliss of a young married couple

Answer 1370

A

Where the rubber meet. the road

Answer 1371

A

Knackered

Answer 1372

A

Fling

He flung the dictionary onto the floor

Answer 1373

A

Tussle, scuffle

Answer 1374

A

wind up

to turn, twist or coil; to make into a ball or coil. My ball of wool has unravelled – could you wind it up again?enrouler; bobiner
to wind a clock, watch etc. She wound up the clock.remonter
to end. I think it’s time to wind the meeting up

Answer 1375

A

Sprain one’ankle

Answer 1376

A

post(-)haste adverb

very quickly. He travelled post(-)haste to London.

Answer 1377

A

Cavort

The children cavorted in the water, splashing and ducking each other.

Answer 1378

A

Deliberate

Answer 1379

A

Mist

The mirror misted over

Answer 1380

A

remnant [ˈrɛmnənt]
n
(= remaining part) → reste m
the last remnants of an old building → les derniers restes d’un vieux bâtiment

Answer 1381

A

Samhain

-> Halloween

Answer 1382

A

Neck or nothing

Answer 1383

A

Well-endowed

Answer 1384

A

Swear word

Answer 1385

A

ie,i.e. (ai ˈiː) abbreviation from Latin

id est; that is to say; in other words. the media, i.e. television, radio and newspapers. c.-à.-d.

Answer 1386

A

Inducement

Answer 1387

A

Endorsement

to give endorsement to an idea

Answer 1388

A

To squint

Answer 1389

A

Lumbering

Answer 1390

A

sleek

The dog has a lovely sleek coat.

Answer 1391

A

Take a rain check

Answer 1392

A

Traipse

To traipse around the shops

Answer 1393

A

Altogether

Answer 1394

A

Lag

He was lagging behind in his lessons

Answer 1395

A

Write down

Answer 1396

A

ropes
I’ll be able to do my job very well when I know the ropes.
John is very slow to learn the ropes

Answer 1397

A

Inception

Answer 1398

A

Endearment

Answer 1399

A

Strike gold

Answer 1400

A

Hunchback

Answer 1401

A

Block in, block out

Answer 1402

A

Sucka

Sucker

Answer 1403

A

Spruce

Spruce up

Answer 1404

A

Hail from

Answer 1405

A

Everlasting

Answer 1406

A

wilt

The plants are wilting because they haven’t been watered

Answer 1407

A

pucker (ˈpakə) verb
to make or become wrinkled. plisser
a wrinkle or fold. pli, ride

Answer 1408

A

Abridge

The editor abridged the manuscript by cutting out two chapters.

Answer 1409

A

Computer Generated Imagerie

Answer 1410

A

Racy

Salty

Answer 1411

A

Installment

Episode

Answer 1412

A

To go bust

Answer 1413

A

Circulate

Answer 1414

A

Oaf

That stupid oaf is always knocking things over

Answer 1415

A

Destitute

Answer 1416

A

PMQs

Prime Minister Questions

Answer 1417

A

patter (ˈpӕtə) verb
(of rain, footsteps etc) to make a quick, tapping sound.
She heard the mice pattering behind the walls

Answer 1418

A

Barb
a barbed remark
a barbed-wire fence

Answer 1419

A

smooch [ˈsmuːtʃ]
vi (= kiss) → se bécoter
n
to have a smooch

Answer 1420

A

Screeching

The screech of train brakes

Answer 1421

A

Indictment

Answer 1422

A

Collude

The managers and the union leaders regularly colluded to rob the plantations at the expense of the workers

Answer 1423

A

Plant

a nuclear reprocessing plant

Answer 1424

A

Unwavering

Answer 1425

A

ill-treat

Answer 1426

A

mere

It’s a mere formality

Answer 1427

A

Desecration

Answer 1428

A

Disrobe, undress

Answer 1429

A

Copacetic

Answer 1430

A

Misgiving

Answer 1431

A

dan•der (ˈdæn dər)

n.

loose scales formed on the skin and shed from the coat or feathers of various animals.
Informal. anger; temper: Don’t get your dander up

Answer 1432

A

slay (slei) – past tense slew (sluː) : past participle slain (slein) – verb
to kill. Cain slew his brother

Answer 1433

A

Parents

Rents(slang)

Answer 1434

A

Insider trading

Answer 1435

A

Undertake

Answer 1436

A

Glad tidings

The union leader brought glad tidings to the striking workers

Answer 1437

A

Whoever, whosoever

Answer 1438

A

Cheer up!

Answer 1439

A

Punt

They punted up the river

Answer 1440

A

Socialite

Sosh

Answer 1441

A

Doppelgänger

Double, look-alike

Answer 1442

A

Nightstand

Answer 1443

A

Parry

to parry an embarrassing question

Answer 1444

A

part-time

Answer 1445

A

Puddle(water)

Pool(oil, blood)

Answer 1446

A

crayfish [ˈkreɪfɪʃ] [crayfish] [ˈkreɪfɪʃ] (pl) n

(freshwater) → écrevisse f
(saltwater) → langoustine f

Answer 1447

A

Despicable

Answer 1448

A

Thumbscrew

Answer 1449

A

Carnation

Answer 1450

A

Broadsword

Answer 1451

A

Sneak off

Answer 1452

A

Deceptive

Answer 1453

A

cog [ˈkɒg]

to be a cog in a machine, to be a cog in a wheel [person]

Answer 1454

A

Every now and again

Answer 1455

A

Woodturner

Answer 1456

A

Hilt
mortgaged to the hilt
He was mortgaged to the hilt

Answer 1457

A

bleak

The future looks bleak

Answer 1458

A

Schnorrer

Answer 1459

A

Patronage

Answer 1460

A

Hillbilly

Answer 1461

A

Not sleep a wink

Answer 1462

A

Out in the open

Answer 1463

A

Pollinate

Answer 1464

A

Tinderbox

Answer 1465

A

Relentless