Expressions, Tournures Flashcards

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Lionize

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Traiter en mettant en l’air

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Such questions ought to be our primary concern.

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Such questions ought to be our primary concern.

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Bemused

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Perplexe

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Caveats

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Mises en garde

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Deployer

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To display

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S’inspirer de

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To draw inspiration from

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Faire les grands titres

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To grabb the headlines

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Lancer l’idée que

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To float the idea that

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Tournant

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Watershed

A milestone

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Impasse

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Deadlock

Stalemate

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Entrer en application

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To come into effect

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Face à un dilemne

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Be stuck between a rock and a hard place

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To ascribe sth to sth

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Attribuer qch aqch

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S’eterniser

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To drag on

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To gloss over

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Dissimuler

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Equilibrer

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To even

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Empieter sur

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To impige on

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Se premunir contre

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To hedge against

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Metrre de cote

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Lay aside

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Evoquer

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To partake of

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Devancer

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Pull ahead

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to wipe out

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Eradiquer

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Deconcerter

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Take aback

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Suciter intéret

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To arouse interest

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A perennial problem

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Un pb perennisé

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Non seulement…mais aussi

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Not only + Verbe … but also

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Paradoxical as it may seem

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Aussi paradoxal que cela puisse paraitre

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Aussi inatendus qu’ils soient

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ADJ + Though + Sujet + may + V

Unexpected though they may be

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D’autant plus

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All the more

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A peine la presse avait elle révélè

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No sooner had the press disclosed the that

Hardly … When

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Si j’avais su cela hier

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Had I known this yesterday

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Sensible

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Sensitive

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Lnincarnation de

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The embodiment of