Jeremy Corbyn Flashcards by Mathieu Ali

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Remanier

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To overhaul

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Étouffer/éteindre

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To Smother

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Démissionner

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To step down, to resign

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Rivaliser

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Vying

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Contre toutes attentes

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Against all odds, quite surprisingly

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Un perdant/opprimé

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An underdog/an outsider

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Invétéré

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Deep-rooted

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Abandonner (sans être vaincu)

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To give up

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Abandonner (en étant vaincu)

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To surrender

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Recueillir

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To garner

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Le soutien

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The support

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Un auditoire âgé

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An ageing audience

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Il va droit au but

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To go straight to the point

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Carrément

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Straightforwardly

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Surpasser, éclipser

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To outdo, to outshine

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Pétiller

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Fizz

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Périphérie

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Eccentric fringes

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Tentative à prendre la tête du parti

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A bid

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Revenir sur la scène de manière agitée

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To bustle up

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Essuyer les verres

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To wip glasses

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Traîner quelque chose de lourd avec effort

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To heave

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Être voûté

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To be stooped

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Froissé

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Crumpled

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Une personne qui ne boit jamais d’alcool

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A teetotaller

Perplexe

Bemused

Approuver

To endorse

Un professeur d'université à Cambridge et Oxford

A don

Groupes d'intérêt

Stakeholders

Perturber

To roil

Désenchanté

Wistful

Avant garde

Vanguard

Se plaindre comme un enfant

To grizzle

A homme

A bloke

Consolider

To shore up

Forte influence

Sway

Discerner

To Sift

Une passoire

A sift

Audacieux

Bold

Énergie

Fizz, vim

Lier très fortement

To yoke

Essayer d'expliquer

To grapple

Ennuyeux, morne, lugubre

Dreary

Soutenir

To throw support

S'étendre

To catch on, to spread

Plus apte à être élu

Electable

De ramener le parti en arrière

To take the party backwards

Considérer

To deem

Virant

Veering

Chaos

Mayhem

Complètement

Wholly

Franc

Outspoken

désordre

Turmoil

Frais de scolarité

Tuition fees

Insurgé

Insurgent

Marge de manœuvre

Leverage

Passéiste

Backwards looking

Contrecoup

Backlash

Un élan de (dépréciatif)

A smack of