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Obstacle, entrave

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Impediment

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Gêner, entraver, ralentir

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To impede

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Avantage militaire

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Military edge

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Raviver, rallumer, ranimer

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To rekindle

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Comme un aigle

Belliciste, va-t-en-guerre

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Hawkish

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Tendance, penchant

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Leaning

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Menottes

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Handcuffs, manacles

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Précoce

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Precocious

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Avoir les nerfs en pelote

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Wound up

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Être remonté

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To be wound up

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Crédule, candide, naïf

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Gullible

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Canular, fausse alerte

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Hoax

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Sourire en coin

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Crooked grin

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De travers

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Crooked

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Malhonnête, corrompu, tordu

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Crooked

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Doigts crochus

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Crooked fingers

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Accessoire ((theatre, cinema)

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Prop

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Complet, exhaustif, total

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Comprehensive

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Déposer

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To check

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Avoir la tête qui tourne, pris de vertige

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Dizzy

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Vertigineux, qui donne le tournis

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Dizzy

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Le vertige

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Dizzy heights

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Se sentir tout chose

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To feel dizzy

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Être grisé par quelque chose

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To feel dizzy with something

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Plan de guitare

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Guitar lick

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Lécher

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To lick

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Mettre une raclée à quelqu’un, battre quelqu’un à plates coutures

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To lick somebody

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Combine, procédé malhonnête

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Scheme

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Flamboiement

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Flare

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Flamboyer

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To flare

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Pattes d’eph

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Flares

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S’évaser

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To flare

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Empiéter sur

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To infringe on

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Prendre des précautions

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To err on the side of caution

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Bribe

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Snippet

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Tendre le cou

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To crane the neck, to crane forward

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Réduire (d’échelle)

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To scale down

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Escalader (muret)

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To scramble up

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Cela dit,

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Mind you,

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Céder

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To yield, to give

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Production, récolte

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Yield

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Perçant, strident

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Shrill

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Point de vue privilégié

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Vantage point

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Trente et quelques années

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Thirty some years

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Attirer des clients (slang)

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To shill

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Compère, complice

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Shill

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Affamé, avoir une faim de loup

Vorace

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Ravenous

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Pertinemment, avec à propos

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Fittingly

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Indélébile, inoubliable

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Indelible

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Tondeuse à gazon

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Lawnmower

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Brouette

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Barrow, wheel-barrow

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Troquer

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To barter

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S’empiffrer, se goinfrer

Se soûler

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To binge

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Luge, traîneau

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Sled (us), sledge (uk)

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Chic, huppé

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Swank

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Crâner, la ramener

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To swank

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Insidieux

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Creeping

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Décerner, conférer, accorder quelque chose à quelqu’un

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To bestow something on/upon somebody

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Adorer,idolâtrer

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To worship

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Incident, contretemps, mésaventure

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Mishap

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Écrevisse, langoustine

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Crayfish (uk), crawfish (us)

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Alcool de contrebande

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Moonshine

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Bêtises, absurdités, âneries

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Moonshine

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Bouilleur de cru clandestin

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Moonshiner

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Se gonfler

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To billow

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Gonfler

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To puff up, to puff out

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Préjugé (contre)

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Prejudice (against), bias (against)

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Citation

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Quote

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Suinter

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To seep

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Accaparer, monopoliser

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To hog

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J’ai une sainte horreur de,

Rien ne m’exaspère autant que

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One of my pet peeves is…,

…is a pet peeves of mine

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Étonné, soufflé, scié, stupéfait

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Bowled over

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Picoler

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To booze

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Étain, en étain

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Pewter

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Plume d’oie

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Quill

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Super, génial

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Wicked

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D’un moment à l’autre.

Momentanément.

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Momentarily

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Gardien, concierge

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Caretaker

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Lugubre, sombre, triste

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Dismal

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Chambre forte, salle des coffres.
Caveau.
Voûte.

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Vault

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Prévenir, dissuader, décourager

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To deter

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Tas, pile

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Stack

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Empilable, superposable

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Stackable

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Cravache

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Switch, riding crop, horsewhip

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Culture (espèce cultivée)

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Crop

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Puissant, convainquant (argument)

Irréfutable (preuve)

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Compelling

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Goinfre

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Guzzler

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Véhicule qui consomme beaucoup

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Gas guzzler

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Économe en carburant

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Fuel efficient

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Consommation d’un véhicule

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Gas mileage

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Panache de fumée

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Plume of smoke, plume

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Panache de fumée

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Plume of smoke, plume

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Sans encombres

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Without mishap

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Parfaitement, à la perfection, par cœur

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Down pat, off pat (UK)

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Pâlot, pâlichon, patraque

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Peaky

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Dégoûtant, répugnant

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Loathsome

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Candidat, participant, concurrent

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Contender

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Tenir compte de, faire attention à

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To pay heed to

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Crevé, vanné, lessivé, épuisé

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Shattered

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Carousel, manège

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Merry-go-round

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Flèche d’une église

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Spire

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Hélice

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Helix

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Bobine (électrique)

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Coil

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Méprisable

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Contemptible

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Falsifier, fausser, trafiquer

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To tamper

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Se porter garant sep

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To vouch for

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Fiole

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Vial

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Sanctifier

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To hallow

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Énormément, beaucoup

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Loads

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Filer à toute allure

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To whoosh

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Grande Cape

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Cloak

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Médicament sans ordonnance

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Patent medicine

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Terme inapproprié

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Misnomer

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Or/argent en barre/en lingot

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Bullion

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Voûte
Caveau
Salle des coffres, chambre forte

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Vault

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Bouée de sauvetage

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Life buoy, buoy

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Débordement de foule

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Mob action

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Charlotte, bonnet

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Mob cap

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Assaillir, prendre d’assaut

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To mob

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Principes

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Principles

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Entrejambe

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Crotch

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Braconnier

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Poacher

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Se dessécher, flétrir, se ratatiner, se rabougrir

S’amenuiser, diminuer

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To shrivel, to shrivel up

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Faille, vide (fig)

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Loophole

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Qui présente des défauts, imparfait, impur, faillible

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Flawed

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Bon débarras !

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Good riddance!

Good riddance to bad rubbish!

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Castor

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Beaver

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Tetard

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Tadpole

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Rosée

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Dew

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Alcool de contrebande

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Mountain Dew

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Bouc émissaire

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Scapegoat

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Crottes

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Droppings

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