Expressions Flashcards by Enola Tognetti

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Réservé au personnel

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Staff only

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J’ai d’autres chats a fouetter

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I’ve got other fish to fry

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Interdiction de faire demi tour

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No U-turns

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Défense de marcher sur les pelouses

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Keep of the grass

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Il n’y a pas de quoi

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My pleasure

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À vos souhaits

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Bless you!

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Satisfait ou remboursé

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Satisfaction or your money back

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Quand les poules auront des dents

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When pigs might fly

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Tous les trente six du mois

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Once in a blue moon

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Rat-tat-tat

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Rantanplan

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Hi han

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Heehaw

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Plouf

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Splash

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Chut

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Sh ou shush

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Miam miam

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Yum yum

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Berk

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Ugh! Yuk!

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Ouf

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Phew

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En avril ne te découvre pas d’un fil

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Never cast a clout till may is out

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Quand le chat n’est pas là les souris dansent

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When the cat’s away the mice will play

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Qui ne risque rien n’a rien

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Nothing ventured, nothing gained

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Un homme averti en vaux deux

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Forewarned is forearmed

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Bien mal acquis ne profite jamais

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ill-gotten goods seldom prosper

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C’est en forgeant qu’on devient forgeron

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Practice make perfect

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Il faut que jeunesse se passe

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Boys will be boys

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Qui se ressemble, s’assemble.

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Birds of a feather flock together

Il ne faut pas vendre la peau de l'ours avant de l'avoir tué

Don't count your chickens before they are hatched

Plus on est de fous, plus on rit.

The more the merrier

Heureux au jeu, malheureux en amour

Lucky at cards, unlucky at love

Charité bien ordonnée commencé par soi-même.

We'll orderly charity begins at home

J'ai une faim de loup

I could eat a horse

On entendrait une mouche voler

You could hear a pin drop

L'avenir appartient a ceux qui se lèvent tôt

It's the early bird that catches the worm

A quelque chose malheur est bon

Every cloud has a silver lining

On ne peut pas avoir le beurre et l'argent du beurre

You can't have your cake and eat it

Il ne faut pas réveiller le chat qui dort

Let sleeping dogs lie

La nuit porte conseil

It's best to spleep on it

Chat échaudé craint l'eau froide

Once bitten, twice shy

Les bons comptes font les bons amis

Short reckonings make long friends

Chercher une aiguille dans une botte de fouin

To look for a needle in a haystack

Je l'ai acheté pour une bouchée de pain

I bought this for a song

Un malheur n'arrive jamais seul

It never rains but it pours

Défenses n'entrer sous peine de poursuites

Trespassers will be prosecuted