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A X-ray

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Une radio

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A step ladder

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Un escabeau

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A drill

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Une perceuse

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An expectation

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Une attente

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A disagreement

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Un désaccord
Je suis en désaccord (i am in disagreement)

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A berry

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Une baie

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Unexpectedly

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À l’improviste
De manière inattendue
De manière imprévue

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Halluciner

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To hallucinate
To daydream
To not believe your eyes eg J’hallucine

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1) Rattraper
2) Se rattraper

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1) To catch again/ catch up/ remedy/ rectify
2) To make amends/ make up for it

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Sing in tune, sing out of tune

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Chanter juste/faux

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Reluctant
Reluctantly

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Réticent
Avec réticence / à contrecœur

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Over time
Bit by bit

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Au fil (or fur) du temps
Au fur et à mesure
Fur is old French word for rate

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It’s raining v heavily

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Il pleut des cordes

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It has set the world on fire

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Il a mis le monde à feu et à sang

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A bog/marsh

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Un marécage
Un marais

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A warehouse

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Un entrepôt

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Maiden name
Name at birth

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Nom de jeune fille
Nom de naissance

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To get fooled

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Se faire avoir

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Diary

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Un journal intime
Un agenda/calendrier

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Relaxed

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Relaxant ( for an object)
Décontracté /détendu for a person

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Yeast

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La levûre
Le levain (starter agent for Eg bread)

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A musical

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Une comédie musicale

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A fishing rod

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Une canne

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Paving stone/slab (stone)

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La dalle
Note crever la dalle means vv hungry (slang expression)
But Avoir une faim de loup is much more commonly used.

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To trigger/start/provoke/cause/spark off

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Déclencher

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Lace

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La dentelle

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A credit (eg a store credit)

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Un avoir

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At the very least

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À la limite

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Partly

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En partie
Partiellement

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To look forward to

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Être impatient de
Être hâte de (more formal)

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To soak something
To be soaked/Dre I

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Tremper
Être trempé

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Fingers crossed

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Croiser les doigts

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To get dumped

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Se faire larguer
Larguer means to unfasten/release (détacher / défaire)

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A quadriceps
A hamstring

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Un quadriceps
Un muscle ischio-jambier

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35
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Le Culot

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The nerve/cheek/audacity

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36
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From now on

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Dorénavant

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To tail/track/shadow (like a detective)

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Prendre en filature
Filature means the shadowing eg I do the shadowing

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38
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Old fashioned

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Démodé
Ringard - latter perhaps gives an opinion

39
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A blue tit

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Une mésange bleue

40
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1) Balader
2) Se balader

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1) To take around eg he takes the phone around with him - il balade le telephone avec lui
Or to take out for a trip
Eg Il balade sa famille à la compagne
2) to take a stroll (like se promener)

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To have nothing to do with..

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N’avoir rien à voir avec ..

42
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A raft

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Un radeau

43
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The bark (tree)

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L’écorce (f)

44
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A hostage

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Un otage

45
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A truce / break

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Une trêve

46
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The right/wrong way round

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À l’endroit / l’envers

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To sympathise

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Compatir (à ou avec)

48
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Vivement

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Can’t wait for / bring on/roll on
Also means quickly/swiftly

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1)To stray
A stray (cat)

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1) S’éloigner (to go away from)
Errer (if an animal)
2) vv Errant

50
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A woodpecker

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Un pic

51
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A shortcut

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Un raccourci

52
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Home lover Home bird

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Un(e) casanier iére

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A groin

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Une aine

54
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The hernia

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La hernie

55
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Screwdriver

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Un tournevis

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A bypass

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Une rocade

57
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The hard shoulder

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La bande d’arrêt d’urgence

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1) Panic
2) To panic

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1) La panique ou l’affolement (m)
2) paniquer ou s’affoler

59
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Dépanner

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To mend/repair/fix/help out

60
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Human interest story/ miscellaneous news story

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Le fait divers

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Becoming sparse/rare

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Se raréfier
Eg mes cheveux se raréfie

62
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Bullshit

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La connerie
Not escroquer to con
Une Escroquerie a con

63
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A leash

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Une laisse

64
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If need be

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À la rigueur

65
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Eventually

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Finalement

66
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Possibly/potentially /might

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Éventuellement

67
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Unmissable inescapable unavoidable

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Incontournable

68
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Make up your mind

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Il faudrait savoir

69
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A stretch (generally muscles)

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Un étirement

70
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A baby bottle

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Un biberon

71
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A nappy

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Une couche (also a layer)

72
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An errand

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Une course (also a race/a fare-eg taxi/a course)

73
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A water bottle

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Une gourde

74
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A stapler

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Une agrafeuse

75
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To fill

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Combler
Remplir - latter can be used in most senses though ?? Not referring to emotions then would use combler??

76
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Happy/content/fulfilled

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Comblé
Note combler - to fill
Comble can mean the irony (ironie)

77
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To pay into/ contribute

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Cotiser

78
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The subscription/subscription/contributions

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La cotisation

79
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1) An estimate
To estimate

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1) Un devis (for a job)
une estimation ou une évaluation (calculation)
2) Estimer / evaluer

80
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Se décider à vs décider de

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Former mulls over to decides latter less thought involved

81
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Just from ….eg seeing

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Rien qu’en … voyant

82
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A bungalow

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Une maison de plain-pied
Or un pavillon de plain-pied

83
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The Siblings

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La fratrie

84
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Too bad

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Tant pis

85
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A container

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Un conteneur or un container

86
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A tuxedo

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Un smoking

87
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To lose

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Égarer (same as perdre - a bit more formal)

88
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The highlight of ..

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Le moment/instant le plus marquant

89
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A ditch

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Une fosse

90
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Half time (sports)
Part time

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Mi-temps
Le premier mi-temps - 1st half

91
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A power plant

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Une centrale

92
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To ask

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Demander - ask for .. something
Se poser - ask .. a question

93
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As it is -eg the house is bought as it is

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Tel quel

94
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A badge

A

Un badge
Un insigne

French 2019 (14 decks)

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