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J’ai perdu mes repères.

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I lost my bearings.

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Grand ensemble, cité (quartier pauvre, Ghetto)

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Housing project, projects, inner city

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Route secondaire, petite route, route de campagne

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Backroad

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Profane, non initié, amateur

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Lay

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Planter le décor

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To lay the scene

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Tendre un piège

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To lay a trap

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Se familiariser, prendre le pouls, tâter le terrain

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To get the lay of the land, to become familiar with

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Faire un clin d’œil

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To wink

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Gratuit, gratis (informal)

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Comp

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Haut-parleur, cri, braillement

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Squawk

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Crier (bird)

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To squawk

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Pousser un cri strident

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To screech

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Osé, scabreux

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Risqué

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Exciter (US)

Faire une farce à (UK)

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To wind someone up

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C’est pas vrai ! C’est vrai ?

Old fashioned

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You don’t say!

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Et toi ? Et vous ?

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How about you ? What about you ? You ?

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Récupérer, extraire, aller chercher

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To retrieve

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Plastifié

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Laminated

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Coincé, collet monté

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Uptight

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Tendu, à cran

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Uptight

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Pâtée (for pigs)

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Swill

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Boire avidement, écluser

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To swill

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Végétalien

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Vegan

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Qui ne boit pas d’alcool

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Teetotal

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Soutenir qq’un, confirmer les propos de qq’un

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To back somebody up

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Amant, maîtresse

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Paramour

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Manque, pénurie, disette

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Dearth

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Susdit, susnommé

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Aforementioned

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Radieux, débordant de joie

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Jubilant

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Agression, passage à tabac

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Mugging

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Tresses ornées de perles

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Beaded braids

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Aisselle

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Armpit

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Hanche

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Hip

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Freres (religion)

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Brethren

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Sabot (animals)

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Hoof

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Sabot (shoes)

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Clog

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Éclairage au néon, tube néon

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Strip lightning

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Centre commercial linéaire (US (row of shops along parking area)

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Strip mall

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Fouille corporelle

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Strip search

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39
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Multiprise

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Power strip

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40
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Attachant

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Endearing

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41
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Ministre de la santé

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Surgeon general

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42
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Contrebande, trafic

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Smuggling

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43
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Ventre

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Belly

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44
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Danse du ventre

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Belly dance

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Bedaine (du buveur de bière)

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Belly, beer belly

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Brute

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Bully

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Tyranniser, brutaliser, harceler, intimider, persécuter

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To bully

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Photo d’identité

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Mugshot

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Cradingue, cra-cra

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Grungy

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Soigné, élégant

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Dapper

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Cour de récréation, terrain de jeu

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Playground

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Recruter, embaucher, engager

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To hire

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Invalide, estropié, impotent, infirme, handicapé

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Crippled

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Hôte, hôtesse, personne qui accueille

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Greeter

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Coincé, collet monté

Tendu, à cran

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Uptight

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Mec

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Dude

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Doyen

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Dean

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Chérir

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To cherish

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Cyanure

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Cyanide

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Ramoneur

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Chimney sweep

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Victoire écrasante

Bouleversement complet

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Clean sweep

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Surgir de nulle part

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To appear like a bolt from the blue

To appear out the blue

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Être parti

Être annulé

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To be off

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Vocation

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Vocation, purpose in life

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Enseignement professionnel

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Vocational education

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Tabasser, rouer de coups, frapper à coups de poing

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To pummel

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Hameçon

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Hook

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Circonstances atténuantes

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Extenuating circumstances

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Perron

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Stoop

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S’abaisser à faire quelque chose

Condescendre à faire quelque chose

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To stoop to do something

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Se baisser, se pencher, se courber

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To stoop

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Date limite

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Cut off date

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Couper les liens (les ponts) avec quelqu’un

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To cut somebody off

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Faire croire que

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To make out that

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Entuber (slang) quelqu’un

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To screw somebody over

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Faire une fixation

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To get hung up

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Complexé par

Obsédé par

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To hung up about

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Demeure

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Abode

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Assurer, déchirer, être génial

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To rock

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Ravaler ses larmes

Retenir ses larmes

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To choke back tears

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Avoir la gorge nouée, avoir la gorge serrée, être étranglé par l’émotion

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To choke up

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Étrangler quelqu’un

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To choke somebody

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S’étouffer avec quelque chose

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To choke on something

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Démarche arrogante

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Swagger

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Marcher de façon arrongante

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To swagger

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Crotte

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Turd

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Homicide involontaire

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Manslaughter

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Se vanter de

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To brag about

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Se vanter que

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To brag that

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Ennuyeux, sans intérêt, insipide

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Dull

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Se lancer à la poursuite de

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To chase after

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Chasser, repousser

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To chase away

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Éteint, disparu

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Extinct

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Intimidant

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Daunting

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Foirer

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To go belly up

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Déplacer

Remplacer, supplanter

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To displace

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Atterrir

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To land, to touch down

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Étreinte, câlin

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Hug, bear hug

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Crasseux

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Grimy

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Une poignée de, un peu de, un petit nombre de, quelques vagues notions de

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Smattering

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Sûr de soi, qui a de l’assurance, affirmé, assuré

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Assertive

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Se concentrer, se focaliser, se centrer (sur)

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To zero in (on)

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L’heure H

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Zero hour

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Mettre à zéro

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To zero

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Se mettre à l’aise, s’installer confortablement

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To cozy up

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Se rapprocher

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To cozy up

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Faire ami-ami avec

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To cozy up to

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Grand pas, progrès

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Stride

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Labyrinthe, dédale

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Maze

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Manque, abstinence, privation

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Deprivation

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Résoudre

Comprendre

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To figure out

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Manque, abstinence, privation

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Deprivation

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Résoudre

Comprendre

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To figure out

114
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Boulon, système visse écrou

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Bolt, nut and bolt

115
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Faire l’effet d’une bombe

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Bolt from the blue

116
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Éclair (foudre)

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Bolt lightning, thunderbolt

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