Chapitre Huit - Les Animaux Flashcards by Erin Lottes | Brainscape

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À pas de tortue

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Very slowly

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À pas de loup

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Stealthily

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Avoir d’autre chats à fouetter

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To have other cats to whip

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Avoir la chair de poule

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To have chicken flesh

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Avoir un chat dans la gorge

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To have a cat in one’s throat

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Avoir une faim de loup

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To be as hungry as a wolf

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Avoir une fièvre de cheval

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To have a raging fever

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Avoir un mal de chien à faire quelque chose

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To have a difficult time accomplishing something

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Bavard(e) comme une pie

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As talkative as a magpie

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Brebis galeuse

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The black sheep, the mangy ewe

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Canard

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Tabloid

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C’est chouette!

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It’s great!

It’s owl!

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C’est un lion.

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He is a brave man.

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Chasser deux lièvres à la fois

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To pursue two different goals

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Cochon!

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Pig! Filthy-minded!

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Cow de village

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Man most sought after by women

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Donner sa langue au chat

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To give up guessing

To give one’s tongue to the cat

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Dormir comme un loir

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To sleep like a dormouse

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Doux comme un agneau

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Gentle as a lamb

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Drôle de zèbre

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A strange person

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Entre chien et loup

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At sundown

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Être cheval sur quelque chose

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To be very strict about

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Être coiffée à la chien

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To have bangs

To be combed like a dog

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Être le dindon de la farce

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To be the victim (turkey) of a joke

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Faire le singe

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To monkey around

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Fier comme un coq

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Proud as a rooster

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Heureux comme un poisson dans l’eau

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To be happy as a fish in water

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Il fait un froid de canard

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It is cold fit for a duck

It’s ducking cold outside) :

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Laid comme un singe

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Ugly as a monkey

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Malade comme un chien

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Sick as a dog

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Malin comme un singe

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Clever like a monkey

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Manger de la vache enragée

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To endure deprivation

To eat a rabid cow

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Mère poule

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A mother hen

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Montrer sur ses grands chevaux

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To get on one’s high horse

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Ne pas réveiller le chat qui dort

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Don’t wake the sleeping cat

Let sleeping dogs lie

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Oie blanche

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A naive woman

A white goose

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Oiseau de mauvaise augure

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A person who brings bad luck

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Oiseau rare

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An amazing person

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On n’apprend pas à un vieux singe à faire des grimaces

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One does not teach an old monkey new faces

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Payer en monnaie de singe

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To pay nothing, make idle promises

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Peigner la girafe

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To do nothing

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Poisson d’Avril

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April fool

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Poser un lapin à quelqu’un

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To stand someone up

To place a rabbit in front of someone

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Poule

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A woman without morals

A prostitute

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Prendre le taureau par les cornes

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To take the bull by the horns

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Quand me chat n’est pas là, les souris dansent

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When the cat’s away the mice will play

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Quand les poules auront les dents

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When chickens have teeth

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Revenons à nos moutons

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Lets get back to what we were discussing

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Sauter (passer) du coq à l’âne

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To jump from one subject to another

To jump from the rooster to the donkey

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Se coucher un chien de fusil

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To curl up in bed

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Se donner un mal de chien

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To bend over backwards

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Se jeter dans le gueule de loup

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To rush into the wolf’s mouth

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Singe

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Boss

Monkey

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Têtu(e) comme un âne

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Stubborn as an ass

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Trempé(e) comme un canard

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Soaked as a duck

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Tuer les poules aux œufs d’or

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To kill the hen that lays the golden eggs

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Un caractère de chien

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A very bad temper

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Un cerf-volant

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A kite

A flying stag

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Un fin renard

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A shrewd fox

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Un remède de cheval

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A strong remedy

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Un temps de chien

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Very bad weather

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Une fouine

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A noisy person

A weasel

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Une langue de serpent

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One with a venomous, gossipy tongue

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Une peau de vache

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A bad person, a rat

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Une poule mouillée

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A man with no backbone

A wet chicken

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Une vie de chien

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A terrible life

A dog’s life

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Une vipère

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A viper

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Vache

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Very mean

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Vachement

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Very

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Veille guenon

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Old hag

Female monkey