Bordeaux AF Flashcards

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Peer group

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Une groupe de pair

Un tribu de pair (used now)

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Get bogged down, get stuck

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Enliser

S’enliser sink inti, get stuck, get bogged down

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Accentuate, highlight, enhance

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Valoriser

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Asylum seeker

Grant ..

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Demandeur d’asile

Accorder l’asile politique à qqn

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Clink (glasses), bump into one another,

Clash fig

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S’entrechoquer

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Discount v, mark down v

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Démarquer

Démarque adj cut-price, unmarked

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Shuffle the cards

Cut the deck

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Battre les cartes

Couper les cartes

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Wanting to sit down

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Avoir envie de s’asseoir

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Words for work in order less hard to hardest

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Glander, y aller à reculons, bosser, bûcher, ramer, en baver,
en suer, trimer

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Accommodation, housing

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Logement m

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Dropout

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Marginal m
Exclus m
Bef: un gueux, un paumé

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Mind intellect

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Esprit m

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Youth n

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La jeunesse

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Local

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Du terroir

Cuisine du terroir, accent du terroir, écrivain du terroir

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Tank ( army)

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Char m

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Differentiate yr self, distance yr self, distinguish yr self

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Se démarquer ( être different de)

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Place where you chuck things like keys, wallet

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Un vide-poches

Jfr un fourre-tout

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Starboard, port side

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Tribord ( r droite!), bâbord

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Public holidays

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Lej jours de feries

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23
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Revenue and costs

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Les recettes et les dépenses

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Two reasons for the crisis

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Deux raisons de la crise ( not pour)
Same with
Résponsable DE empêcher de ( prevent, put stop to)NOT pour
Accéder à qqc ( access, reach)

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Take the money and run

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Manger la grenouille

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40 year olds

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Les quadras

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Surely, certainly, inevitably

Necessarily

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Forcément

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Support v
``` Soutenir qqn (contre qqn) Soutenir le moral des troupes ```
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Be mean to someone
Être désagréable avec qqn
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Agreement | Consistency
Concordance f
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Globalisation
Mondialisation f
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Shortterm problems
Les problèmes conjoncturels | Une situation conjoncturelle
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Sock leave | Maternity leave
Congé maladie | Congé de maternité
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The writing is on the wall | The end is near!
Les carottes sont cuites
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Confise the issue (expr)
Brouiller les cartes
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Prefix parfait, mortel, poli
Imparfait, impoli, immortel | Im before m and p
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Budget cut
Coupe budgétaire f | Déficit budgétaire m
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Rub yr hands
Se frotter les mains
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Big demonstrations
Les grosses manifestations | Le gros conflit
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Brand-name, designer
De marque | ...des vêtements de marque
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Organic
Bio
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Yes-man, boot licker
Béni-oui-oui m
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Straw
Paille f
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Insult v, have a go at (inf)
Traiter
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Cheetah | Panther
Guépard m | Panthère f
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The generation before
La génération précédente | Une situation moins bonne
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Red card and fig
Carton rouge m
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Clove (spice)
Le clou de giroffe
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Standardisation
Uniformisation f
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Counterfeit n
Contrefaçon f
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Prefix legal | Prefix responsable
Before l il illégal | Before r ir irresponsable
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Boarding pass
Carte d'embarquement f | Tous les passagers doivent présenter leur carte d'embarquement avant de monter dans l'avion.
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Stay standing
Rester debout
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Bore stiff, send to sleep
Barber
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A member of the crew
Un membre de l'équipage
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Trolley
Chariot m
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Confront, face
Affronter qqc
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Shut sb up, leave sb speechless
Couper la chique à qqn
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Be rude to sb
Etre grossier (grossière) avec qqn
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Play on the computer
Jouer à l'ordinateur | Jouer sur ordinateur ( no art)
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Put or enter st on the computer
Mettre sur ordinateur | La secrétaire met sur ordinateur le compte rendu des réunions.
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Host, presenter
Animateur -rice
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Spring roll
Nem m
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Others
Autrui
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Travel around the world
Faire le tour du monde
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Father, mother slang
Darron, daronne
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Boarding school
Internat ( de jeunes filles)
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Moratorium
Moratoire m
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Person, character fiction, living
Personnage m | Personnalité f
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Liberate, free v
Affranchir | S'affranchir free yr self fr
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Suspended sentence | Reprieve, deferment
Avec sursis m | Sursis m
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Fast food industry | Fast food chain
La restauration rapide | Chaîne de restauration rapide f
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Against the multinationals/ capitalism
Contre le grand capital
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Fast food, take away on the go
Une restauration nomade
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Institutional catering ( school cantine fex)
Restauration collective, restauration scolaire f
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Live ( music fex)
En live, en directe | La musique est joué en directe pendant le film.
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Silent movies
Les films muets
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Change pf scene (pos) n | Culture shock, disorientation (neg)
Dépaysement m | Etre dépaysé adj
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Parting (hair) Ray fish Stripe line
Raie f
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Rag, old rag (clothes wo value)
Guenille f
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Odd, mismatching, incomplete
Dépareillé adj Il a mis des chaussettes dépareillées. D a hérité d'un service de table dépareillé.
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Commonplace, cliché
``` Poncif m (noun only) C'est un discours rempli de poncifs. ```
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Thoughtful, wistful, contemplative
Pensif -ve adj
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´mouse pad' ( on laptop)
Pavé tactile m
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Succeed, turn out well
Aboutir Les négociations ont abouti. Negotiations have succeeded. The negotiations came to a successful conclusion.
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Completion, result, outcome
Aboutissement m L'aboutissement de ce projet aura nécessité 3 années.
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Recovery (physical) | Closure (emotional)
Guérison f
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Buy pur hase gain acquire
Acquerir | N acquisition f
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Outburst, blaze,
Flambée f
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A rise, uphill slope, climb, ascent n
Montée f Tombée drop, fall
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Drummer | Batsman ( sport)
Batteur, -euse | Batteur à main hand mixer, hand whisk
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Stapler
Agrafeuse f
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Night-light, parking light
Veilleuse f
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Incubator
Couveuse f
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Container
Conteneur m
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Speed rapidity n
Promptitude f And promptness Prompt à repondre
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Oddness, strangeness oddity
Étrangeté nf
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Forgetfulness absent-mindedness n
Étourderie f
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Dishonest, deceitful, hypocritical
Fourbe adh | Fourberie nf trickery deceit
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Finalise, develop
Mettre qqc au point
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Put in the wash
Mettre au sale