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1
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Go too far, be kidding

Cart, transport, cart around

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Charrier

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Tummy, gut, paunch

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Bide m

Flop, dud, lemon

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To exasperate

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Horripiler

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Truthful, true

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Veridique adj

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Spark, glint, flash

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Étincelle f

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Ugly as sin

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Lais comme un pou

Louse m

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Be spellbound, enthralled, fill w wonder

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Émerveiller

S’émerveiller

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Bowl

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Écuelle f

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Welding, soldering

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Soudure f

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Plastic cap (factory, hygiene)
Sun hat
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Charlotte f

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Agile, nimble, supple
Crude risqué
Ready

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Leste adj

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Scandal, scene

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Esclandre m

Faire un esclandre

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Dishwasher

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Lave-vaisselle m
Person: plongeur -euse
Charger for load the dishw

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To Catch a cold

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Attraper un rhume

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To scold

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Gronder

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To praise

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Louer

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To reward

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Récompenser

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Intend v

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Compter (+inf)

Je compte partir en vacances en fevriér. Inintznd to leave for hols…

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Stationery

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Papier à lettres m

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Answering machine

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Repondeur m

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Hard drive

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Disque dur m

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Chuckle, giggle, giggling n

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Gloussement m
And clucking (chooks)
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Exhausted, tired out

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Fourbu

Avoir l’air, être

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Wooden floor

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Parquet m

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Shipment

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Cargaison f

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Report

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Rapport f

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A green space

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Un espace vert

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To lack, be short of

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Manquer de

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Lined with

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Bordé de

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Congested with, blocked by

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Encombré de

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My watch is five min slow

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Ma montre retarde (avance fast) de cinq min

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Im on time

Its six ô’clock sharp

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Je suis à l’heure

Il est dix hrs pile

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April fool

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Poisson d’avril

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People dressed in their sunday best

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Des gens endimanchés

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Un amateur painter

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Un peintre du dimanche

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To stop short

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S’arrêter court

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To yell

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Parler fort

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To read aloud

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Lire tout haut

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39
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On purpose

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Exprès

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Gladly

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Volontiers

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Springtime adj

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Printanier

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Spark glint flash

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Étincelle f

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Ear plugs

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Bouchons d’oreilles

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Speed Boat

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Hors-bord m

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Pasty pale white faced

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Blafard -e

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Skimp on stingy with

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Avare de

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Rest on ur laurels

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Reposer sur ses lauriers

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Velvet

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Velours m

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Sex drive libidi

Lower abdomen

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Bas-ventre m

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Underivileged

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Défavorisé

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Step, measure

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La démarche

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To resign from

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Se démettre de

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Predict

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Prédire

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Vegie garden

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Le jardin potager

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Fence

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Clôture f

56
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Poplar tree

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Le peuplier

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CD

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Cédé m

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Clean shave , beardless, hairless adj

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Imberbe adj

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Darw-devil, brave person n

Daring adj

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Intrépide nmf, adj

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Omen, sign

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Présage m

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Mane, mop of hair, shock of hair

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Crinière f fig

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Pine nut, pine kernel

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Pignon m

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Guardrail, barrier, railing balcony

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Rambarde f

64
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Take a dip

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Faire trempette

Après la descente du train, on fera trempette avant le repas

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Luscious, fleshy, succulent, curvy

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Pulpeux -se

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Flabby

Spineless

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Flasque adj

N flask, hip flask fem

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Procrastination

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Atermoiements mpl

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Unthinkable, unimaginable, inconceivable

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Impensable

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With special needs

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Attardé
il aide des attardés scolaires
Les élèves attardés seront dans une classe spéciale

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Cobweb

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La toile d’araignée

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To dust the furniture

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Épousseter les meubles

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Sweep the floor

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Balayer le parquet

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Mess n

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Le fouillis

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Bid n

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Enchère f
faire une enchère v make a bid
remporter une enchère⇒ vi win an auction vi

75
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Livestock cattle
Herd dairy
Flock sheep

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Cheptel m
cheptel porcin nm (troupeau) pig stocks npl
pig population n

76
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Put behind bars, commit,put away

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Écrouer

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Bask in, take pleasure in, wallow in

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Se complaire dans qqc

Seccomplaire à faire qqc take pleasure in doing sth, like doing sth

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Whisper v

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Susurrer

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Golden, blissful adj

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Doré -e

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Seat,stool,dock

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Sellette f

être sur la sellette be in the hot seat v

81
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Ingraibex, rooted, set adj

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Invétéré -e

82
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Trip, drive, tour, walk, hike

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Virée f

83
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Torment, agony, pangs

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Affres fpl

Les affres de la passion

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Flow

Ebb, incoming tide

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Flux m

85
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Harmful

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Néfaste

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Jubilation n

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Liesse f

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Hopeless

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Désespéré

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Dripping, streaming, pouring (rain, tears)

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Ruisselant. Adj

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dampness, humidity, moistness n
(UK) mugginess n
sweatiness, stickiness n

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Moiteur f

Sous cette chaleur, le moindre effort nous couvrait de moiteur.

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Plump pudgy

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Replète

91
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Being cheated on

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Cocu

Elle est cocue, son mari la trompe.

92
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Leather imitation

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Skai m

Éric s’est acheté des chaussures en Skaï.

93
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Weather v

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Haler

hâlé adj (bronzé) tanned, bronzed adj
Il vit au grand air et a le visage hâlé.
hâle nm (couleur de la peau colouring n

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Blister

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Cloque f

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Unknown adj

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Insu

à mon insu without my knowledge, without my knowing unwittingly

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Sour, Sharp, un ripe

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Aigre

Harsh words

97
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Cottage cheese

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Faisselle f

98
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Red currant

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Groseille f

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Partridge

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Perdrix f

100
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When they arrived

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À leur arrivée

À leur retour

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On time

In time

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À l’heure

À temps

102
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In this day and age

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À l’époque où nous sommes

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3 hrs fr P

3 km fr P

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À 3 heures de P

À 3 km de la ville

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Fr morning to night
Fr month to month
Fr dy to dy

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Du matin au soir
De mois en mois
De jour en joue

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In a group

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En groupe

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In a mess

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En pagaille

En désordre

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