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Trier, classer

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To sort, to put in order

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Se débarrasser de, jeter, éliminer

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To dispose of, to get rid of

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Noyau (fruit)

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Pit

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Carrière (rock, ore)

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Pit, open pit, quarry

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Extraire

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To quarry, to excavate

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Puit de mine, fosse, trou

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Pit

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Gibier, proie

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Quarry

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Déchiqueter, déchirer, mettre en lambeaux, broyer

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To shred

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Lambeau, petit morceau

Soupçon, once, un peu

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A shred

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Pas la moindre preuve

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Not a shred of evidence

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Un peu d’espoir

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A shred of hope

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Vive querelle, propos vifs

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Heated argument

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De façon purement hypothétique

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For the sake of argument

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Dispute, querelle, débat

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Argument

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Flageller, fouetter

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To flog

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Fourguer, refourguer (UK slang)

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To flog

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Matraquer, rabâcher (publicise) (UK slang)

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To flog

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Prendre le pouvoir

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To takeover

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Foncer sur, filer tout droit vers

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To make a beeline for

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Rayon fruits et légume

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Produce department

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Rechuter de temps en temps

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To fall off the wagon now and then

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D’ici là

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Between now and then

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Subrepticement

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Surreptitiously

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Badiner, plaisanter

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To banter

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Privé de, dépourvu de

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Bereft

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Perdu, démuni, endeuillé

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Bereft

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Lutrin

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Lectern

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Tirer vers le bas, saper, entacher

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To drag down

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Variateur de lumière

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Dimmer

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Feu de position (US, cars)

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Dimmer, low beam

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Moins intelligent, moins finaud, plus bouché, plus bête

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Dimmer

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Plus faible (light), plus sombre (room)

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Dimmer

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Engouement, phénomène de mode

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Craze

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Occire

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To slay

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Influencer, impressionner

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To sway

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Chanceler, se balancer

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To sway

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Se précipiter

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To hustle

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Se prostituer

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To hustle

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Arnaquer, rouler

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To hustle

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Bousculer, pousser

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To hustle

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Activité, animation, tohu-bohu

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Hustle

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Sans préparation, au pied levé (adv)

Improvisé, spontané (adj)

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Off the cuff

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Envie de voyager

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Wanderlust

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Autonome (libre, non amarré)

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Untethered

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Enterprise, effort

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Endeavour

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Afficher un air déterminé

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to set (one’s) jaw square

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Ragoût, civet, pot-au-feu

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Stew

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Couvercle

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Lid

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Paupière

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Eyelid

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Se disputer à propos de

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To quarrel over

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Peser

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To weigh, to weigh out

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Laisser des traces, des séquelles, peser lourd, avoir des conséquences négatives

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To take a toll

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Vieille fille (dated)

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Spinster

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En chasse, qui rôde

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On the prowl

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Éducation obligatoire

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Compulsory education

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Absentéisme

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Truancy

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Absentéiste

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Truant

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L’armée

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The military

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Se prélasser

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To bask

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Fourguer, refourguer, refiler

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To palm off

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Se délecter

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To bask

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Se tenir prêt à

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To brace oneself to

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Plein d’entrain, turbulent, tumultueux, houleux, agité

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Boisterous

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Étang

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Pond

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Mare aux nénuphars

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Lily pond

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Nénuphar

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Pond lily

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Mare

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Pond, dew pond

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Quai

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Wharf, pier

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Rat d’égout (surmulot)

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Wharf rat

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Voyou, malfrat, brute

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Thug

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Horrible, nul, mauvais

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Godawful (slang), terrible, very bad

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Le marié

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The groom

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Bafouiller, bredouiller

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To fumble for words

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Cortège

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Pageant

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Spectacle, reconstitution historique

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Pageant

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Concours de beauté

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Beauty pageant

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Écharpe (en diagonale)

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Sash

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Étayer

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To underpin

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Être sur le point de faire

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To be poised to do

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Petit coup de coude

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Nudge

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Marginal, inadapté

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Misfit

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Monstrueux, grotesque

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Grotesque

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Posthume

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Posthumous

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Crotte de nez

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Booger

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Tendu (rope, emotional or muscle)

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Taut

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Tenir la corde tendue.

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To pull the cord taut.

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Pivot, point d’appui, point d’équilibre

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Fulcrum

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Balançoire à bascule

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Seesaw, teeter-totter

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Osciller

Faire du yoyo

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To seesaw

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Se casser, se barrer

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To bail

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Charger

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To burden, to load

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Peser (fig)

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To burden

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Accabler

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To burden

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Héler un taxi

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To flag a cab

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Fléchir, faiblir, ralentir

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To flag

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Signaler (avec des drapeaux, avec une marque, avec des signaux)

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To flag

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Jour de la Marmotte (02/02)

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The Groundhog Day

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Marmotte d’Amérique

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Woodchuck, groundhog

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S’élever à, équivaloir à, revenir à

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To add up to

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À l’œil nu

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To the unaided eye

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Essaim, colonie, nuée

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Swarm

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Foncer sur, venir sur

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To bear down on

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Appuyer avec force

Peser sur

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To bear down on

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Groseille a maquereau

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Gooseberry

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Pas de l’oie

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Goosestep

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Chair de poule

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Goosebumps

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Dos d’âne, ralentisseur

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Speed bump, speed ramp

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Homonyme

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Namesake, homonym

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Croisement entre races

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Miscegenation

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Dégradation, fléau

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Blight

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Un tas de

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A slew of

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Résultat

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Outcome

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Systématiquement, avec constance, constamment

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Consistently

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Apparemment, de toute évidence

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Seemingly

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Tuer le temps

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To idle

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Tourner au ralenti (motor)

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To idle

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Musarder, flemmarder, flâner, fénéanter

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To idle

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Risée

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Laughingstock

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Erreur flagrante

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Egregious mistake

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En termes élogieux

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In glowing terms

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Lumineux, rayonnant

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Glowing

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Fléau (litt. et fig.)

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Scourge

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Fumer un joint

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To toke

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Fléau (litt. et fig.)

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Scourge

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Une once de

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An ounce of

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Se ranger (sur le côté) (vehicle)

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To pull over

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Panier repas

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Brown-bag lunch

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Volage, inconstant, capricieux, changeant (person, weather)

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Fickle

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Effiloché (fabric)

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Frayed

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Stressé, tendu, à bout de nerfs

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Frayed

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Veillée funéraire

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Wake

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Lancer (une plaisanterie)

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To crack

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Dorénavant

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Henceforth

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Pauvre type (slang, pejorative)

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Dork

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