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Tourner au coin

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To turn the corner

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La règle générale

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The rule of thumb

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Depuis la nuit des temps

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Since the Dawn of Time

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Avoir l effet inverse que prévu

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To backfire

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Être en plein dans le mille

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To be spot on

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À un cheveu de quelque chose

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Within the haiŕ s breadth of something

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Depuis combien de temps

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For how long

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Se montrer à la hauteur

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To come pu to scratch

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Un cadeau d’adieu

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À farewell gift

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Forcer l allure

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To force the pace

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Être insensible à , imperméable à

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To be impervious to

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Tendance vers le haut

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Upward trends

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Forcer l’allure

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To force the pace

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Beaucoup de

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À deal of

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Humecter les vetements

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To dampen the clothes

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Aller retour

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Back and forth

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Vivre dans le pêcher

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Yo live un sin

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Démarrer une guerre des prix

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To instigate à price war

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C est discutable

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It s à moot point

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C est une piste à explorer

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It s an avenue worth exploring

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Les modalités de paiement

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Modes of payment

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Gamme de prix

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Price brackets

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De façon éparpillée

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In a scattered way

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En forme de croissant

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Crescent-shaped

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Donner un nouveau rôle

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To recast

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À ma grande consternation

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To my dismay

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Comportement fantasque

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Erratic behavior

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Parler pour ne rien dire

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To ramble on

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Prendre position contre

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To take up à stance against

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Être dans la bonne fourchette

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To be on the right ballpark

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Indifférent à, sans se soucier de, indépendamment de

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Regardless of

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En pleine floraison, epanoui

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Un full bloom

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Resplendissant de santé

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Blooming with health

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Se charger de

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To cope with

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Qui se passe d explication

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Self explanatory

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Avoir du mépris pour

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To despise sby

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Avec mépris

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With contempt

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Au mépris du danger

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Regardless the danger

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Exploser ( chômage, demande, production)

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To soar, to rocket

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Se passer de

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To spare

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Un lit d ami

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À spare bed

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J ai hâte d avoir de vos nouvelles

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I’m looking forward to gratiné back from you

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Mille mercis

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Thanks a bunch

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Décourager

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To daunt

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Nous sommes autorisés

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We are entitled

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Sans se soucier des conséquences

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Regardless of the consequences

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Rester en arrière, trainer

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To leg

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Faire mes adieux

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To make my farewell

You can say farewell to your chances of promotion

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Jusqu’à ces jours ci, jusqu’ à nos jours

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Up to nowadays

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Silence vaut approbation

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Silence means consent

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Être dépendant de quelqu un pour quelque chose, dépendre de qu pour qc

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To be reliant on sby for sthg

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Dépendre de quelque chose

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To be reliant on sthg

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Strategy en 3 points

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Three-pronged strategy

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Se serrer, se blottir

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To snuggle

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Chuchoter

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To whisper

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Tout est bien qui finit bien

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All is well that ends well

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Rigoureux

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Stringent

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Je suis sidéré

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I’m flabbergasted

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Ça m’a sidéré

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I was flabbergasted at this

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Pour ton bien

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For your own sake

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Pour le plaisir

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For the sake of it

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Panne, rupture, érosion, dégradation

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Breakdown

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Une décomposition des résultats

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À breakdown of the results

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Juger prudent de faire quelque chose

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To deem it prudent to do sthg

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Être jugé digne de faire quelque chose

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To be deemed worthy of doing sthg

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Population de plus de 55 ans

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Graying population

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Solution miracle

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A magicien bullet

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Venir à l esprit de quelqu un

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To occur to sby

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Trier

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To sort out

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Trèfle

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Shamerock

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Tranche

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Slice

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Se tordre la cheville

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To sprain

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Tomber en panne

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To run out

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Tomber malade

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To sicken

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Terrain vague

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Wasteland

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S émerveiller

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To marvel at

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Noyer

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To drown

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Se délecter

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To delight

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Se décourager

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To lose heart

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Se blesser

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To get Huet

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Saupoudrer

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To sprinckle

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S apprêter à

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To get ready to

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Réussir dans/à

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To succeed in +ing

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Récolter des fonds

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To raise funds

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Ranger

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To tidy

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Ramper

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To crawl

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Prêter

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To lend

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Mourir de faim

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To die of hunger

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Bien vu

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Good catch

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Une transition en douceur

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À seamless / smooth transition

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Un ensemble homogène

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À seamless whole

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C est fini

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It’s all over

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S efforcer de faire quelque chose, s évertuer, s appliquer à

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To endeavour to do sthg

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S effondrer

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to slump

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Endiguer

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to stem

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Stopper l’hémorragie

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to stem the bleeding

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De bout en bout

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From stem to stem

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Être prépondérant, passer avant tout

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To be paramount

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D une importance capitale

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Of paramount importance

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De bonne foi

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In good faith

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Donner un nouvel élan à qc, une nouvelle impulsion

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To give new impetus to something

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Prendre le pouvoir

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To take over

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À mon grand désarroi

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Much to my dismay

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Grappiller partout

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To scrimp and save

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l’heure, c’est l’heure

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On time is on time

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Plus on est de fous, plus on rit

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The mire, the merrier

106
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On n’a que ce qu on mérite

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First deserve, then desire

107
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On récolte ce que l’on seme

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You get out of it what you put in it

108
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Plus on en a, plus on en veut

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The more you get, the more you want

109
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On ne peut avoir le beurre et l’argent du beurre

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You can ´t have your cake and eat it

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Speak with the devil and he appears

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Quand on parle du loup, on voit sa queue

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Faire face à qc, s’accommoder de

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To cope with sthg

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Dans la fourchette

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In the ballpark

113
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In the same ballpark as sby

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Dans la même category, de la même trempe

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Régler des problèmes

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To settle difficulties

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L’indulgence de ses parents à son égard

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His parent’s leniency towards him

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Régler ma facture

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To settle my account, my bill

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Régler nos différences

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To settle our differences

118
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Installer, s’installer, se poser, s’établir

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To settle

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Calmer mes mots d’estomac

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To settle my stomach

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Un oiseau s’est posé sur le toit

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À bird settled on the roof

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La poussière se dépose sur la table

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Dust settles on the table

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Respecter les règles

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To abide by the rules

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Obligation de confidentialité

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Obligations of non disclosure

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Être composé de qc

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To be compounded of sthg

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Succès d’envergure

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A large scale success

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Goulet d’étranglement

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Bottleneck

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Apaiser

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To sooth

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Ça m’apaise

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It soothes

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Promesse de succès

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Pledge to succeed

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Évaluation

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Appraisal

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Se lancer de

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To ventrue into

132
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Qui ne risque rien n’a rien

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Nothing ventured, nothing gained

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Un coup de balai

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Sweep

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Prospérer

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To thrive

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S’épanouir dans quelque chose

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To thrive on sthg

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Fasciner, passionner

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To thrill

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Attirer

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To entice

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Savonner

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To lather

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Faire un retour en force

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To bounce back

140
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Attirer par la ruse

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To lure , to entice with bad intentions

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Le bastion

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The stronghold

142
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Aller à la dérive, être emporté par le courant

(Snow, sand) s’amonceler, s’entasser

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To drift

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Décalage

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Mismatch

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Ouvrir, révéler, libérer

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To unlock

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Licenciement

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Redundancy

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Pénurie d’eau

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Water scarcity

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Vers le haut

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Upwards

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Tu triches

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You’re cheating

149
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Tu simules

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You’re faking !

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Simuler, feindre, falsifier, truquer

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To fake

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Se sentir dupé

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To feel cheated

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Escroquer qc à qu

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To cheat sby out of sthg

153
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Odeur de renformé

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Stale air

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Règles du jeu

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Rules of the game

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Par méchanceté

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Out of spite

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Contrarier

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To spite

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Calé en informatique

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Computer savvy

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Désuet

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Old fashioned, quaint

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Supprimer progressivement

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To phase out

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Rugir, vombrir, mugir

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To roar

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Jauger l opinion du consommateur

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To gauge consumer opinion

162
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Semer les graines

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to sow the seeds

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Ronfler

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to snore

164
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Renverser, répandre, se répandre

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To spill

165
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Faire couler le sang

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To spill blood

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Satisfaire, pouvoir à

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To cater (to the points mentioned there)

167
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Mettre une interdiction on

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To put a ban on

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Grave, aiguë (crise, maladie), clairvoyant (esprit)

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Acute

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Répondre à sa place

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To answer on her behalf

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Quelque peu alarmant

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Somewhat alarming

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Mendier

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To beg

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Guérir, cicatriser, cicatrisant

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To heal, healing

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Prêt à parier

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Willing to bet

174
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To be blunt

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Ne pas mâcher ses mots

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Obsédé de la santé

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Health freak

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Explorer

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To scout

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Examiner minutieusement

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To scrutinize

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Faire une enchère

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To bid for

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Encombrer

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To clutter up

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Mâcher

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To chew

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Rapidité d’esprit

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Quickness of mind

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Le vif du sujet

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The heart of the matter

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Économies d’échelle

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Économies of scale

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Trouver un second souffle

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To get a second wind

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Tout petits commentaires

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Itty-bitty comments

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Avoir une panne

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To have a breakdown

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Bon sens politique

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Political savvy

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Avoir un coup de cœur

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To have a crush

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D un ton dédaigneux

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Dismissively

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Fouetter

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Whisk

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Trier, classifier, ranger

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To sort out

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Ça fait mal

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It’s sore

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Par pur hasard

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By sheer chance

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Être étendu (linge)

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To be line-dried (Fabrics)

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Éternuer

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To sneeze

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Piquant

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Pringent

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Sur un coup de tête

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On a whim

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Rentrer en contact avec

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To get in touch

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Visqueux

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Slime, goo, gunge

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Projets à venir

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Forthcoming projets

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Faire un retour en force

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To bounce back

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Faire rebondir la balle

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To bounce the ball

204
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Expérience pratique

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Hands on expérience

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Manager de terrain

A

Hands on manager

206
Q

Jaillissement, poussée

A

Sudden increase, surge

207
Q

Faire le portrait de

A

to portray

208
Q

On peut soutenir que, c’est sans doute

A

It is arguably

209
Q

Le prix du voyage

A

Fare

210
Q

S’en tirer

A

To fare

211
Q

Question anodine

A

Insignificant, trivial question

212
Q

Au juger

A

By guesswork

213
Q

Judging by

A

À en juger par

214
Q

Courant près de 30 ans

A

Spanning over 30 years

215
Q

Capacité de concentration

A

Attention span

216
Q

Impeccable

A

Spin and span

217
Q

Inclure

A

Encompass

218
Q

Parler crûment

A

To speak bluntly

219
Q

Serrer une vis

A

To tighten à screw

220
Q

Sans égal

A

Second to none

221
Q

Faire saliver

A

To tantalize

222
Q

Volant

A

Steering wheel

223
Q

Répugner à faire quelque chose

A

To be loath to do sthg

224
Q

Taper des doigts

A

To tap my fingers

225
Q

S éterniser

A

To dwell on

I’d rather not dwell on the past

226
Q

Dans les grandes lignes

A

In broad lines

227
Q

Éteindre

Se désaltérer

A

To quench

To quench one’s thirst

228
Q

Se faire du fric

A

To make a buck

229
Q

Ça pue là-dedans

A

That stinks in there

230
Q

Le premier… Le second

A

The former, the latter

231
Q

Enquiquiner

A

To hassle

232
Q

Pour le bénéfice de

A

For the sake of

To benefit sby

233
Q

En chair et en os

A

Flesh and blood

234
Q

Blessure superficielle

A

Flesh wound

235
Q

Rentrer dans quelque chose

A

To bump into

236
Q

Rattraper son retard
Se remettre à jour
Se tenir au courant
Rattraper

A

To catch up

237
Q

Une envie irrésistible

I get sudden craving for sweet

A

Craving

Un grand besoin

238
Q

Espace réservé

A

Placeholder

408
Q

Restez sur tes gardes

A

Keep you on your toes

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