Kerry Greenwood Flashcards
Pleased delighted
Ravi
Avoir l’air ravi
Mess things up
Faire le bordel
Pin n
Èpingle g
Shiver
Grelotter
No doubt
Nul doute
Gym
Une salle de gym
Talent fig
Bosse f
Flock, ton, heap inf
Ribambelle f
J’ai une rimbabelle de choses à faire avant de partir en vacances.
Cord
Cordelette f
Trap n
Piège m
It doesn’t look GD/great
Ça la fiche mal!
Biological clock
C’est le tic-tac de l’horloge biologique
Offspring, nipper inf
Offshoot
Rejeton m
On the face of it, w/o knowing the facts
Preconceived
À priori adv
Priori adv
Scarcity ( of food)
Disette f
Indiscriminately, wildly, undiscerningly
À tort et à travers
À travers across
Lay responsibility on sb
Mettre qqc sur le dos de qqn
Tilt, incline, crane, stretch out
Pencher
Awful, vile, squalid, disgusting, revolting
Ignoble adj
Cash
Rolling in it (cash), loaded
Thunes fpl
Pété de thunes
Stress out, make stressed, get anxious, worry
Stresser
Hay, inf din, racket
Foin m
Sister, sis inf
Brother bro
Frangine
Frangin
Bury ( ex yr face in yr hand, nuts in the ground)
Enfouir
S’enfouir burrow
Barrell, cask
Barrique f
Annoyance irritation n
Agacement m
Hip (bone)
Hanche f
Tour de hanche hip size, hip measurement
Chalk, limestone
Craie f
Rubber skin, balloon
Baudruche f
Yawn, be ajar, gape
Bâiller
Junk room, dump, dumping ground
Fourre-tout m
Window ledge, dress hem, cliff edge
Rebord m
Marsh, swamp
Marécage
Booklet
Livret m
Freeze fig
Freeze, immobilise, set, congeal
Se figer
Figer
Murky ( water), blue-green, seedy, shady fig
Glauque adj
Get stuck in the mud, get bogged down
Embourber
Feel, feel the weight of fig,
Hesitate, be in two minds
Tâter
Se tâter
Dirt, grime, muck, dirty trick
Crasse f
Tiles, tiling
Carrelage m
Poser du carrelage lay tiles
Sulk, be in a huff fam
Faire la gueule
Fais pas la gueule! Don’t get in a huff!
Shortcoming, gap
Lacune f
Compass, indicator, guide, fig barometer
Boussole f
Range, music scale, array, assortment
Gamme f
Braide,plait, weave
Tresser
Slave traffic, trafficking
Traite f
Rescue
Sauvetage m
Life jacket, cardigan, under vest, inf cardie
Gilet m
Shellfish, shell
Coquillage m
Idiot, country bumpkin, hillbilly
Plouc m
Map out, trace, plot
Tracer
Waddle n
Dandinement m
Drowsy, sluggish, lethargic
Somnolent adj
Old beast
Vieille bête m
Pronto, snap-snap, straight away
Illico adv
Deceive, delude
Delude yrself
Leurrer
Se leurrer
Sparkling, bubbly, fizzy (wine water)
Pétillant adj
Cranberry
Airelle f
Taste, savour, eat enjoy
Déguster
Sandpit
Les bacs à sable
Trouble maker, disruptive, agitator
Perturbateur -Rice
Bazaar, pigsty fam
Souk m
Lug around, cart
Trimballer
Assume, take on, shoulder fig
Endosser
Cartridge, carton (cigarettes) gas canister
Cartouche f
Get nowhere, shuffle along
Piétiner
Rascal, scallywag
Galopin m
Gurgle rumble stomach, water gurgle
Gargouiller
Fight tooth and nail
Résister bec et ongles
Unfathomable fig
Insondable adj
Exactly right
Pile-poil adv
Podiatrist
Pédicure mf
Draining board
Égouttoir m
Babble prattle
Jaser
Jaser sur gossip about
Schooling education School years
Scolarité f
Walk arm in arm
Marcher bras dessus bras dessous
Be in a good mood be cheerful
Être de bonne (mauvaise ) humeur
Even tempered n
Humeur constante f
Be on the mood to do sth
Être d’humeur à faire qqc
Longwinded speech
Laïus m
Amazement
Stupefaction
Allocate, assign, credit with
Attribuer
Unearth, hit upon, find
Dégoter
Drill n
Perceuse f
Black eye, shiner
Oeil au beurre noir
A domestic
Une scène de ménage
Lattice
Treillage m
Pathetic hopeless loser
Minable adj
Deliver
Livrer qqc à qqn
Have the guts
Avoir le cran de
Nasal
Nasillarde
La voix nasillarde
Briefcase
School bag
Mallette f
Heads or tails
Pile ou face
Stinginess
Pingrerie f
Béer belly
Ventre à bière m
Blur stain smudge v
Maculer
Dilapidated adj
Vétuste
At first
Sur le moment
Sur l’année over (the period of ) a year
Aimlessly
Sans but
In writing
Par écrit
Par la force. By force
Par terre on the ground
Wonderfully
Á merveille
A week fr today
D’aujourd’hui en huit
Frizzy kinky (hair)
Crépu
Boiled sweet
Roudoudou m
Munch crunch v
Croquer
Bar, counter sl
Zinc m