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Hip hip hip hourra

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Hip hip hip hooray

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Prendre part à, participer à

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To partake in

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Émancipation

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Empowerment

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Dépendre de

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To hinge on

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Illumination, soudaine révélation, fulguration

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Epiphany

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Mercerie
Rayon pour hommes
Magasin de vêtements pour hommes

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Haberdashery

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Ronchon, quelqu’un de négatif, défaitiste

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Naysayer

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Ressaisis-toi, reprends-toi

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Get a grip

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Allusions ostensibles à des gens connus

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Name-dropping

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En montée, qui monte, plus haut

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Uphill

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Ardu, pénible, rude

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Uphill

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Bleu (novice)

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Rookie

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Capacités scéniques

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Stagecraft

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Burin

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Chisel

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Paperasserie

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Red tape

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Frotter, brosser, récurer

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To scrub

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Bon décrassage

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Good scrub

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Saut à l’élastique

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Bungee jumping

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Partir du principe que

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To assume

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Mettre en désordre, en pagaille

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To clutter

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Directeur financier

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CFO = Chief Financial Officer

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Directeur Général

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CEO = Chief Executive Officer

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Loquace

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Talkative

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Franc parler

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Straight talking, outspokenness

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Écraser un mégot

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To grind out a stub of cigarette

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Servir, pondre, resservir

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To grind out

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Peaufiner

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To refine

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Projet, plan, bleu (plan architecte)

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Blueprint

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Faire l’idiot, l’imbécile, l’andouille

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To fool around

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Querelle, dispute, conflit, lutte

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Strife

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Espérance de vie

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Life expectancy

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Vocation

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Calling

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Insultes

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Name-calling

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Légende, sous-titre

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Caption

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Film parlant

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Talkie

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Dingue, fou-fou, farfelu

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Wacky

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Indice, piste, astuce, truc

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Hint

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Façonner

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To inform

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Rediffusion

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Rerun

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Arranger, imaginer, inventer, planifier

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To contrive

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Jugeote

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Savvy, street smarts

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Qui s’y connaît (en)

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Savvy, -savvy

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Fil de coton

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Cotton thread

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Lien

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Common thread

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Qui s’achève à chaque épisode

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Episodic

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Qui continue d’épisode en épisode

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Serialized

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Simple, franc, direct

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Straightforward

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Déclenchement

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Outbreak

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Excentrique

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Outlandish, eccentric

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Du jour au lendemain

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Overnight

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Dans la nuit

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Overnight

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D’une nuit

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Overnight

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En 24 h

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Overnight

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Instantané

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Overnight

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Rester soi-même

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To keep it real

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Rester en tête

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To keep a leg up

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Tenir une promesse

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To keep a promise

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Se tenir au courant de

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To keep abreast of

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Rester à distance

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To keep back

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Empêcher de s’approcher

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To keep back

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Fers

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Shackles

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Pronostic (méd.)

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Prognosis

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Offrande, sacrifice

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Offering

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Charabia

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Gobbledygook

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Couvre-feu

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Curfew

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Parent proche

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Next of kin

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Concis, incisif, lapidaire

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Pithy

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Saleté, crasse, cochonnerie

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Filth

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Parc d’attractions, parc de loisirs

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Amusement park

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Nombril

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Navel

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Nombrilisme

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Navel-gazing

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Échoué, bloqué

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Stranded

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Aborder, se présenter

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To come up (to)

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Répandu, généralisé
Omniprésent,
Envahissant, pénétrant

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Pervasive

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En son nom

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On his behalf

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Phosphorescent

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Glow-in-the-dark

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Bonne mine

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Healthy glow

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Être rayonnant

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To glow

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Arriver à quelqu’un

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To befall sbdy

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Menus détails

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Minutiae

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Deuil

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Bereavement

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Retourner, mettre à l’envers

Tournebouler, bouleverser, chambouler

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To upend

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Incursion, tentative, essai

Incursion, razzia

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Foray

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Porteur d’un message de vie

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Life-affirming

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Gâcher

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To mar

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Indigent, sans ressource, démuni

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Destitute

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Tomber par hasard sur quelque chose

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To stumble across

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Mastodonte, monstre, géant, créature gigantesque

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Behemoth

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Admirer

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To look up to

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Pur, simple

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Sheer

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À pic, abrupt

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Sheer

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Démarrer à la manivelle

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To crank

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Gros morceau, grosse tranche

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Chunk

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Mijoter, faire mijoter

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To simmer

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Robuste, solide, résistant

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Rugged

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Rude, accidenté

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Rugged

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Confus, embrouillé

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Muddy

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Boueux

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Muddy

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Ultra moderne

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Newfangled

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Dans un état de délabrement avancé

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In disrepair

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Se préparer, s’équiper pour

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To gear up for

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Levier de vitesse

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Gear lever, gear stick, gear shift

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Tenue habillée, tenue de soirée

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Party gear

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Lourd, indigeste, écœurant

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Stodgy

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Rassembler, regrouper (militaire, berger)

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To muster

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Impasse

Confrontation

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Stand-off

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Entremetteur, marieur

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Matchmaker

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Endormi, drogué, comateux,

Abruti, idiot

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Dopey

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Timide, pudique

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Bashful

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Grincheux, ronchon, grognon

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Grumpy

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Trébucher

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To stumble

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Titulaire, en place, en fonction

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Incumbent

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Blême, cendreux

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Ashen

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Déclin

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Waning

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Défraîchi, abîmé, sali

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Shopworn

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