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1
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Cheat sheet
Push-up
Shoe fam

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Pompe f

And push up, shoe

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Throw out, away

Fire, sack

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Virer

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I’m knackered

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Je suis crevé -e

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Laze around
Day dream
Veg out

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Buller

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Mess, muck around

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Glander

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Digs, room

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Piaule f

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News

Breaking news

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Info f
Flash info
Fact or fiction info ou intox

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Good job

Good work

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Bon coup

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Blood pressure

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Tension f

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Glued to, transfixed

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Scotcher

Les yeux scotchés sur l’écran

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Transplant organ

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Greffe f

And graft

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Great grand parents

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Arrière-grands-parents

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Sleep like a log

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Dormir comme une masse

Etre à la masse. Be away w the fairies, not with it, be out of touch

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Unemployed n

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Sans-emploi
Chômeur
Note: Aujourd’hui, le terme “demandeur d’emploi” est préféré à celui de “chômeur”, ce dernier étant connoté.

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Issue
Concern
At stake

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Enjeu m

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16
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Feel tired all of a sudden

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Avoir un coup de pompet

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Abbreviate v

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Abréger

Abrègement abbreviation

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Rescue, snatch v

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Arracher

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19
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Mashed potatoes

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Purée de pommes d t

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Opt for, choose, select

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Opter pour

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21
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Play hide and seek

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Jouer à cache-cache

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22
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Bird droppings

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Couverts de crottes d’oiseaux

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Icky, gross adj

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Dégueu slang fr degueulasse

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Wipe, dry yrself

Suffer sustain, endure, bear

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S’essuyer

Essuyer

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Badly, spitefully, maliciously adv

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Méchamment

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Cooly, coldly

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Froidement
Chaudement
Ils se sont habillés chaudement

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Mucus

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Morve f

Avoir la morve au nez

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Crack, split, gap

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Fente f

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Deer, roe, venison

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Chevreuil m

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Empty handed, disappointed, unsuccessful adj

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Bredouille

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Borrow

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Emprunter qqc à qqn

Prêter qqc à qqn lend

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Mammal

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Mammifère m

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Unexpected, surprising adj

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Inattendu

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34
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Loudly. Noisily

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Bruyamment

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35
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Currently

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Actuellement

NOT actually

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36
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Put up for sale

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(Décider de) mettre en vente

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37
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That’ enough! Enough!Give it up!

Be fed up witn

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C'est marre
En avoir de marre 
j'en ai marre îm sick of it im fed up 
Marrer laugh
Se marrer giggle laugh
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38
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Be on edge, be wound up

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Avoir les nerfs en pelote
Pelote de laine ball of wool
Pekote f ball

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From now on adv

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Dorénavant

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Real estate agent

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Agent immobilier

Agence immobilière f

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41
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Kitty pool
Nest egg
Jackpot

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Cagnotte f

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42
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Licence fee, royalty

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Redevance f

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43
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Dough, bread, money slang

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Blé m
Ne t’inquiète pas. Il a du blé!
Wheat

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44
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gloominess, despondency, despair, bleakness

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ras-le-bol nm inv familier
Après l’augmentation des impôts, du prix de l’essence et du gaz, il y a eu une sorte de ras-le-bol général.
Following the increases in taxes and the prices of petrol and gas, there was a kind of general despondency.

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Slum, shanty town

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Bidonville m

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Wing (plane, political, bird, house)

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Oversensitive to pain, cosy, snug, comfortable

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Douillet
C’est un enfant très douillet
On est bien dans ce lit douillet.

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Chat on the net

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Chatter sur les réseaux

49
Q

Put up with sb

Get stuck with sth

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Se coltiner qqn qqc
Je me coltine la belle-mère.
Tu te coltines la vaisselle!

50
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The latest fad, whim,fancy, nyck

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La dernière lubie

51
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Lost soul, drop out, isolated n

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Paumé m
Paume f palm
Paumer v lose
Se paumer get lost

52
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Stroke, pat v

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Flatter
And flatter, pander to
Se flatter fancy yr self be proud of
Il se flatte d’être le meilleur ouvrier.

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Merry, in high spirits, laughing adj

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Hilare

Je suis sorti hilare de ce spectacle

54
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Vague, evasive adj

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Evasif

Sa réponse est évasive.

55
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Check out, eye, look at

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Mater
And subdue, put down
La police mate la révolte
Les garçons matent les filles

56
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Competition

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Concurrence f
Concurrencer compete with, be in comp with
Les journaux en ligne concurrencent la presse papier

57
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Neighbourhood

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Voisinage m

De bon voisinage good neighbour

58
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I say, by the way, hey!

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Dis dinc

Bah dis donc, eh bah dis donc well i never

59
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Stinging nettle

60
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Casserole dish
Dish
Incense burner

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Cassolette f

J’ai mangé une cassolette de poisson

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Field mouse

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Wobbly, won’y, precarious, lopsided

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Bancal

C’est une solution bancal, elle ne durera pas

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Easily, comfortably adv

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Aisément

Elle vit très aisément de son salaire

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Laundry f

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Blanchisserie f

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Everything n

66
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Bad-tempered, sour, sour tempered adj

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Acariâtre

Elle a toujours été acariâtre.

67
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Slug also fig

68
Q

Beekeeping

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Apiculture f

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Congratulate v

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Congratuler qqn

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Scheme, plot v

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Manigancer

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Chilled, chilled out, laid back, cushy, easy adj

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Peinard

J’étais peinard dans mon lit…

72
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Bra

A

Soutif m

Culottes undies

73
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Sleeplessness n

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Insomnie

Il souffre d’insomnie et ne dort que 3 hrs par nuit

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Layer, coat ( paint, creame on strawberries etc), layer of the earth

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Couche f

Nappy

75
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Coax, cajole,

soften, become softer

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Amadouer

S’amadouer

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Fuss n

77
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Fear fam

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Trouille f
Crever de trouille be scared to death
Ficher, flanquer la trouille à qqn scare the living daylights out of sb

78
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To diet

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Se mettre au régime

79
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Bottle (baby)

feed n

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Biberon m

Donner le biberon bottle feed

80
Q

Burp, belch

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Rot m

Faire de rot

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Midwife

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Sage-femme

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Bicker, squabble

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Chamailler

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Gravedigger

84
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Lay (eggs),produce deliver

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Pondre

Il a encore pondu un article pour le journal.

85
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Guardian

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Tuteur

And tutor

86
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Homesick

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Mal du pays

87
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Tail shadow

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Filature nf

And spinning , spinning mill

88
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Class

Layer

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Couche f
LLa couche ouvrière est à la peine en période de crise financière.
The working class finds itself in difficulty during times of financial crisis.

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Sommersault

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Galipette f

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Granny gran old lady

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Facelift

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Ravalement m

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Engagement

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Fiançailles fpl

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Wriggle fidget

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Feeble

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Brass

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Sieve colander

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Passoire f

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Renovate spruce up do up

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bored, weary adj

indifferent, impervious, inured adj

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Snooty, stuck up

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Pimbêche f

100
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come what may expr

for better or worse expr

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Vaille que vaille

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Victim scape goat whipping boy

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Souffre-douleur m

102
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Gutter

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Gouttière f

103
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Clown fool

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Pitre m

Il fait le pitre pour faire rire ses camarades.

104
Q

Identikit

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Portrait-robot m

105
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Closet store room box room

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Débarass m

106
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Beardless, smooth faced, shaven, hairless

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Imberbe

And novice

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Be cold, be freezing fam

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Se peler

Slang be freezing yr butt off

108
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Grumble, gripe, moan

Rebuke scold

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Rouspéter

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Ordeal

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Calvaire m

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Heckle, jeer

Disrupt v

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