Expression 11 Flashcards by Loïc Lepage | Brainscape

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Très dispendieux

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Cost an arm and a leg

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Personne qui s’emporte facilement

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Hot head

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Simple / facile

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As easy as pie

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Personne écervelée

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Scatterbrain

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Personne lente

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Slowpoke

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Manipuler

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To pull a few strings

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Sans défense

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Up the creek without a paddle

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Dépasser ses capacités

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To bite off more than you can chew

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Parler sans réfléchir

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Off the top of his head

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À la limite de ma patience

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The end of my rope

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Être très en colère

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To be hot under the collar

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C’est du chinois

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It’s all Greek

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Incapable de garder un secret

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Blabbermouth

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Paresseux / flanc-mou / fainéant

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Lazybones

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Parler sans arrêt

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Chatterbox / windbag

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Inconfortable

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Like a fish out of water

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Je suis tout ouïe

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I’m all ears

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Tout est ti-guidoo

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Everything is a ok

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C’est un super bargain

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It’s a steal

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Tout est bien qui finit bien

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All’s well that ends well

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Faire l’idiot

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To act up

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Marcher sur des œufs

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Skating on thin ice

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C’est une vie misérable

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It’s a dog’s life

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Se mettre le doigt dans l’œil

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To be off base

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Se fendre en quatre

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To bend over backward

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Tourner autour du pot

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To beat about the bush

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C’est tiré par les cheveux

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It’s farfetched

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Ça ne me fait ni chaud ni froid

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I couldn’t care less

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Comme un diable dans l’eau bénite

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Like a car on a hot tin roof

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Il y a anguille sous roche / il y a une pogne

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There’s a catch to it

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Être au septième ciel

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To be on cloud nine

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Une histoire à dormir debout

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A cock-and-bull story

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Avouer

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To come clean