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Timid shy fearful

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Timoré

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Hilarious hysterically funny

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Désopilant
Make someone laugh désopiler
Have a laugh se désopiler

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Venison

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Chevreuil m

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Shade dim tone down

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Estomper

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Shortage shortfall lack of

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Pénurie f

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Excess

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Outrance f

À outrance over the top

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Ultimate the best

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Nec

être le plus nec ultra best of the best. The best. Last word

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The last straw that breaks the camels back/ the last drop expr

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La goutte d’eau qui fait déborder la vase

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Scattered patchy sparse

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Épars

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Clanking noise

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Bruit de ferraille

Amas de ferraille heap of metal

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Eccentric bizarre n

scatter brained adj

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Farfelu adj and n

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Ruffle (hair) v

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Ébouriffer

And amaze stun

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It’s easy to be wise after the event

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C’est facile d’être sage après la bataille

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Slag off bad mouth bitch about

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Débiner

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Take a tumble

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Valdinguer

envoyer valdinguer familier (figurative) send everything flying

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Croak caw ( as a crow)

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Croasser

Entendre des corbeaux croasser n’est pas très agréable.

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Hillbilly country bumpkin

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Pèquenaud

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Approval authorization

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Agrément m

avec l’agrément de with the consent of, with th

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Fragment piece

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brisure f

La statuette s’est cassée en tombait, je ramasse les brisures.

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Be fooled be cheated

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Se faire rouler

Se faire rouler dans la farine
be taken for a ride, be taken to the cleaners v expr

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Artificial adultères

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Frelaté

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Head chef

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Cuistot m

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Suede buck skin

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Daim m Je me suis acheté des gants en daim.

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Wall hanging wall covering

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Tenture f

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Bottle neck

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Le cul de la bouteille

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Leaflet handout

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Tract m

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Spry alert with it

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Fringant

smart, smartly dressed, elegant, elegantly dressed adj

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Besotted in love adj

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Épris adj
Elle est éprise d’un beau jeune homme.
‘S’éprendre de [qqn]⇒ fall in love with [sb], fall for [sb], be taken with [sb] v expr

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Blissful blissfully happy

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Béat adj

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terse, abrupt, curt, blunt, sharp, off-hand adj

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Brusque

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Washed/out

Dish water

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Lavasse f
Coffee fex
Ce restaurant ne sert que de la lavasse.

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Juicy and fig

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jute aux
J’ai signé un contrat juteux.

Je mange une pêche juteuse.
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33
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A trick

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Un tour de passe -passe

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Unsold

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Invendu adj and nm

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Blunder faux-pas n

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Impair m

Impair adj odd

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Posture

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Posture f

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Calmly thoughtfully

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Posément
And

unhurriedly, steadily adv
at a leisurely pace adv

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Trestle

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Tréteau m

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Kitty pool best egg

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Cagnotte f

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Bar counter sl

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Zinc m

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Spook secret agent spy sl

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Barbouze nmf

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Take follow borrow

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Emprunter

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Reconsider change yr mind

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Se raviser

44
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Scheming

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Magouille f magouillage

C’est à force de magouilles qu’il a obtenu ce poste.

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Cartridge canister

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Cartouche f

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Not enough insufficient

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Insuffisant adj

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Tripod mount

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Affût m

être à l’affût vi be eagerly awaiting,

48
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Throw n

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jeté m

Elle met un jeté sur ce fauteuil abîmé.

49
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Folder

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Chemise f

La secrétaire range le dossier dans une chemise rouge.

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Trigger n

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Gâchette f

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End up find its way land

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Bet that

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Parier que

Mparier [qch] sur [qch/qqn]⇒ vtr (faire un pari) bet, gamble, wager vtr
(informal) put money on [sth/sb] v expr
J’ai parié 20 € sur ce boxeur.
I bet 20 euros on this boxer.

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Learn a lesson

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Tirer la leçon

54
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Boss big shot

Whizz kid

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Be on the lookout. Be on the watch

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Être aux aguets

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Body guard

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Gardes du corps

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Smart cunning adj

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Ficelle

String n

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Open establish set something up

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Implanter qqc

And implant insert graft v

59
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Join become a member of

Agree with someone something

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Adhérer à

60
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Change radically

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Virer sa cuti

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Decant v

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Transvaser

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Pick at

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Chipoter

Elle chipote devant sa viande rouge.
informal) hum-and-haw, split hairs, be picky, be overly choosy
Haggle over

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Hoot

moan groan

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Hululer

Chouettes et hiboux hululent.

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Miss v

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Regretter

Je regrette nos dîners en amoureux.
I miss our romantic dinners.

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Bastard asshole

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Enfoiré -e

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Dismal dreary glum morose

Gloomy

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Lugubre adj

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To ferret to rummage forage snoop around

68
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Intolérable unbearable unsustainable

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Insoutenable

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Gag silence

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Museler

And muzzle

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Beam ray

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Faisceau le

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Dolled up dressed to the nines

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Être bien sapé

Se saper dress v

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Solid

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Blood sausage/pudding

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Feel/ be under the weather

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Ne pas être dans son assiette

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Plate up

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Dresser une assiette

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Announcement

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Faire-part m

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Smoke ring

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Wind turbine

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Éolienne f

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Double glazing

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Double vitrage m

Triple

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Roofing n

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Gilt Gilding gold decoration

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Fluorescent light

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Lust summary bank statement

Plan plot

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Relevé m

Adj spicy spiced hot

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Liquid manure

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Purin m

Fosse à purin manure pit f

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Frustrated defeated baffled beaten

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Déconfit adj

86
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Understanding reason insight

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Entendement me

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Town councillor

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Busybody gossip n
Godmother
Amazon

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Commère f

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I was not born ydy

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Je ne suis pas né de la dernière pluie

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Spell spell out

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Crossways

East to west

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Transversale

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Shortbread biscuit

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Sablé m

And sandy

93
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Blank bullets

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Balles à blanc

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Windcheater

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Coupe-vent m

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Tax relief tax reduction

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Dégrèvement m

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Be penniless

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Être sur la paille
Paille straw and drinking straw
Paillè straw colored

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Jackpot
Strike it rich
Gold mine fig

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Pactole m

Il a gagné au loto et touché le pactole.
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Trivialize

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Fearless undaunted

100
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Boarding

Collision

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Abordage m

prendre à l’abordage loc v (seize board, capture

101
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Calm still serene peaceful

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Coi adj

en rester coi be speechless

102
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Change yr mind reconsider

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Se raviser

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have words with [sb], have a run-in with [sb] v expr

have an argument with [sb]

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Se prendre le bec avec qqn

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past their sell-by date adj
that have gone off expr
out-of-date adj
Expired

105
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Taxing

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