Exp 25 Flashcards

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To keep on doing something ( stubbornly )

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s’entêter (dans quelque chose, à faire quelque chose )

s’obstiner à faire quelque chose

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To highlight, to showcase

To emphasize, to promote

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mettre en avant

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To run around

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courrir partout

“Il courait partout en mittraillant des cadavres; et pas que les cadavres de l’ennemi, ceux de sont propre camp.”

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To be thrilled, overjoyed, over the moon, etc

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être aux anges

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To screw up

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foirer
* examples!!

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To suck up to
To kiss ass / brown-nose
(x3)

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Cirer les pompes
Faire de la lèche à quelqu’un
Lécher le cul ou les bottes de quelqu’un

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To get to a point where…

“You’ll get to a point where you ask yourself if they ever existed.”

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En venir à

“Tu en viendras à te demander s’ils ont jamais existé.”

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“Don’t say a word ( about that )!” / “my lips are sealed.”

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“Bouse cousue!”

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polite small talk

“That’s enough small-talk.”

“I’m exhausted by this social whirl”

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mondanités (=politesses)
( m’aw(n)-d’ah-n’ee-t’ay )

“Trêve de mondanités.”

“toutes ces mondanités me fatiguent”

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To be “all picky” / to turn one’s nose up at something

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faire la fine bouche

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To be brazen enough / to have the nerve to go as far as to do _____

“You had the nerve to go as far as to swear your life on it.”

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Pousser l’effrontrie à faire quelque chose
( ay-fr’aw(n)-tr(hh)ee )

“Tu as poussé l’effrontrie à le jurer sur ta vie.”

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To go through crazy trouble to do something

To bend over backwards to do something

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Se plier en quatre pour faire quelque chose

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“He wasn’t far off” ( / “I see what he means.”

( project, design: ) “there’s something in it / there’s something happening here / there’s potential.”

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il y a de l’idée

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For the record…

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Pour la petite histoire…
( check! )

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Titres…

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à titre privé/personnel

in a private/personal capacity

à titre permanent/provisoire

on a permanent/temporary basis

A titre d’information

For your information / for the sake of being clear or thoroughly informed

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16
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Unpronouncable / long name

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Un nom à coucher dehors
( Samsung a peur de ce Smartphone, YT vid, 9:08, 10:22 )

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To step on someone’s toes
To come on the turf of someone

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Marcher sur les plates-bandes de quelqu’un
( s23 yt video - bearded guy- after the middle)

18
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To keep one’s one style / look

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Garder sa ( propre ) patte
Bearded guy yt video

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In pace with the fashion / trends of the times

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Dans l’air du temps