L'immigration Flashcards
fan (waving), range
l’éventail
on the range there are peacocks with an even tail
totally relaxed
les doigts de pieds en éventail
unravel/undo
détricoter
un-knit
ineffective
inopérant
this doctor is ineffective in operations
be power-hungry, overly ambitious
avoir les dents qui rayent le parquet
so power-hungry that you eat the floor - have teeth long enough to reach the floor
Public Prosecutors department
le parquet
breaking the thermometer (blaming the tools for bad work, changing the measuring system to make a problem go away)
Ce n’est pas en cassant le thermomètre qu’on fait tomber la fièvre.
(it’s not by breaking the thermometer that we make fall the fever)
covertly
subrepticement
under the reptiles made of cement gangsters meet
withdrawal into oneself
repli sur soi
don’t want to reply
hit like a ton of bricks
tomber comme un couperet
fall like a guillotine
guillotine blade
le couperet
straightaway, right away
d’emblée
I’ll nom with wheat (ble) straight away
hold up (bank)
braquer
break in
uncultivated land
la friche
on peut trouver du fric sur la friche et etre riches (comme Bouratino)
crack
le interstice
crack in the sky appeared when jesus was interred during the solstice
housing stock
le parc de logement
park of lodgings available for picking
work, slog away
bosser
if you slog away, you can become a boss
seal, conclude
sceller
intending to intimidate or show strength
a coups de menton
with a blow of the stuck-out chin
get round, overcome, cover up
pallier
pal, you’ll help me cover this murder up so we can overcome the problem of jail? yee
cover the costs
assumer les coûts
you can’t just assume we can cover the costs
family reunification
le regroupement familiale
commited
commi
disposable
jetable
throwawayable
well ahead
loin devant
my loins are deviant and far ahead of you
mate
un pote
got a mate in a pot - cannibalism
to disturb
déranger
don’t disturb the ranger Aragorn
on the other hand
en contrepartie
thin-skinned, sensitive
a fleur de peau
a skin made of flowers
in this respect
a son egard
report
le rapport
someone who is surveyed
un sonde
rioters
les emeutiers
facial features
les facies
official, compulsory
d’office
well anyway
enfin bref
socioeconomic category
la categorie socioprofessionnelle
I can’t do anything about it
je n’y peux rien
to the city and the world
urbi et orbi
to the urbans and to the orb
holding your breath
l’apnée
an app for holding your breath when you are born
absolute must
le passage oblige
you are obliged to take this passage - there’s some lovely flower ships there
with no change
brut de pomme/brut de fonderie”, “brut de décoffrage”
brutally apple
become angrily easily
etre soupe au lait
angry because there’s soup in my milk
not be naive
ne pas etre ne de la derniere pluie
be a bit crazy
avoir un petit velo dans la tete
too smart to fall for something, to know better than that
Pas folle, la guêpe!
forget everything
avoir la tete comme une passoire
have a head like a colander
self-confident in a pretentious way
se regarder le nombril
look intro your navel
be of a low intellectual level
voler bas
to beat fast (heart) (have your heart in your throat)
battre la chamade
the drumming champ made it, got first place, heart racing
show your reaction
accuser le coup
I accuse you of this coup!
get better after a problem/illness
reprende du poil de la bête
the rescued dog started growing beast hair again
get fed up
la moutarde me monte au nez
I’m really fed up with this mustard plant climbing into my nose
dazed by knocking against something
en voir 36 chandelles
in the same way
au meme titre
top of the range
haute de gamme
highest gama
week
la semaine
forest
la foret
by chance
au hasard
a problem
un problème
sunny
ensoleille
be pre-occupied with something
etre aux prises avec qqch
pre-occupied with polishing all my prizes
established
acquis
Atlantis was an established aquatic city
the living environment
cadre de vie
third
un tiers
in this capacity
a ce titre
already
d’ores et deja
the oars are already on the bank
bask in sun (lounge), crack
lézarder
if lizards bask in the sun too long, their skin starts to crack
solemn, pompous
solennel
tombola, lucky draw
le tirage au sort
the university of the Third Age holds a sort of lucky draw for who can get in
advise, recommend, encourage
preconiser
he’s a pretty big con, he advised me to be a miser
typing machine (to type)
le dactylographiant
pterodactyl typing graphic novels on a typing machine
housewarming, hanging
la pendaison
I’ll give you this season’s pendant for the housewarming, and then hang you by it – anna wintour
surrender
capituler
put your hat up in the air
self-sufficiency
la autarcie
direct debit, sample, swab
le prélèvement
ensure that
faire en sorte que
i’l sort it out, i’ll ensure that it works
on the sly
en catamini
the cat puts on a mini dress on the sly
with trust
les yeux fermes
follow, ensue, come out, stem from
découler
flow straight from the cooler
work for peanuts
travailler pour des clopinettes
work for crappy net profits
identity theft
l’usurpation d’identite
assault, bullying
le harcèlement
damage to property
l’agression a main armee
l’agression a l’arme blanche
knife attack
hold-ups
les braquages
shop-lifting
le vol a l’etalage
school drop-out
le décrochage scolaire
parental neglect
la démission parentale
anti-crime squad
la BAC
anti-crime squad against kids who don’t pass the bac
riot squad
le CRS
are you seriously sending in the riot squad?
priority education zone
la ZEP
we need to make the kids zip up their studies
job centre
le pole emploi
job centre on the North pole for polar bears
hotspot
la zone sensible
this isn’t a sensible zone, lots of fights
rent
le loyer
lawyers can weasel out of rent
suspended
avec sursis
you have to look on your sis, so your sestence is suspended
left to their own devices
livres a eux-memes
left to their own devices with the books
feel, experience
eprouver
can you prove that you’ve felt love?
be bullied/assaulted
se faire harceler
work, strive for
œuvrer
to enjoy/benefit from
jouir de
get joy from
go along, walk along, go the length of
longer
proliferate/multiply
pulluler
pull proliferating eulers out of a hat
aimlessly
sans but précis
without a specific goal
on (two) occasions
a deux reprises
at two reprisals
package, presence, measures, plan
le dispositif
we must take measures to dispose of these packages
police presence
le dispositif policiere
dispose of criminals through a police presence
prize list, list of hits
le palmarès
the Palme d’or goes to a film about the ‘res’ (indian reserve), it’s got a long prize list
touched, filled with emotion
ému
emu is filled with emotion
frail, unstable
précaire (precarious)
spread, communicate
propager (propagate)
beam (wood)
la poutre
pudra (rouge) on a beam of wood
rotten, decayed, lousy (fam), corrupt
pourri
the pot pourri in the bathroom of corrupt officials is totally decayed
rotten to the core
pourri jusqu’à la moelle
moe’s wife, she is rotten until the marrow
spoiled rotten
pourri gate
kid puts poo on his rice, no punisment, he’s spoiled rotten
stroller, shopping cart
la poussette
gush, spout (water), mushroom, spring up
jaillir
broke the plumbing to escape from jail, water gushing out ; later on, mushrooms spring up
spring to mind, brainwave
jaillir de (son) cerveau
escape from the jail of your brain
coconut palm
le cocotier
gust, barrage, torrent
la rafale
torrent/barrage of rafael nadal’s forehands
wooded countryside
le bocage
aged book about the wooded countryside
batch, group
la fournée (batch of furniture)
malveillant
malevolent
lifejacket
le gilet de sauvetage
short
haut comme trois pommes
racket, row, commotion (fam)
le boucan
row between the books in the library over one book
casual worker
le intermittent
temporary show business worker
intermittent du spectacle
bring my contribution
apporter mon petit pierre à l’édifice
woodland forest (adjective)
sylvestre
sylvestre stallone taking a woodland walk
conservatism, nationalism, centralized govt
gaullisme
person who goes to confession
pénitent
cassock
la soutane
tanned legs under the cassock
chestnut-coloured horse/salad herb
sorrel
prayer book
missel
shake yourself, snort
s’ébrouer
this brute of a dog is snorting and shaking himself
decipher, sight read
déchiffrer
in the centre/heart of
en plein cœur de
stranglehold, dominance
la mainmise
hand put on throat
ground rent (building owner paying land owner rent)
foncière
The Fonz owns the building, has to pay rent yerr
interbreeding, melting pot
le métissage
put in a melting pot with sage
impoverish
appauvrir
enter the Church
prendre la soutane
hair (mass), comet tail
la chevelure
horse lures comet tail after it with his hair
sway
chalouper
a wolf sways doing the cha cha
chilled out, cushy (job)
peinard
being payed for not doing anything hard
someone who doesnt live in the cites
excitadin
to be way off the mark
être a cote de la plaque
penis, cane
la verge
wear and tear, erosion
la usure
be sandwiched
être pris en sandwich
chef, cook (argot)
le cuistot
the chef cooks early
skull, head (fam)
le crane
the cranium
gossip about, scorn smth
gloser
hen, chicken, cheap perfume
la cocotte
cocococo
simmer, (inf.) plot scheme
mijoter
midgets simmering in a pot and scheming
rifraff, scum
la racaille
the scum is stealing chicken wings from the rack
brash, boastful military person
traîne-sabre
duck-billed platypus
le ornithorynque
thor has an ornate-billed platypus that he fucks
octopus
la poulpe
ocotpus ground into a pulp
marshall
le marechal
cool, well-ventilated area where dishes are stocke
garde-manger
edible
comestible
is this comet digestible?
salicornia (sea bean, succulent, grows in marshed and salt)
la salicrone
severity, harshness
la rudesse
deficiency
la carence
this car has a deficiency, hence you cant use it
zipper
la fermeture eclair
nettle
la ortie
arty person making soup with nettle
chickweed
le mouron
chicks die on weed
alfalfa
la luzerne
only losers eat alfalfa
breadcrumbs
la chapelure
breadcrumbs covering the chapel to lure pigeons into shoot them
to lessen (risk), to grow slimmer (chances)
s’amenuiser
the chance of this man becoming an asthmatic weezer are growing slimmer
lard
le saindoux
lard keeps me sane and gentle
barley
la orge
having an orgy with barley
chestnut (fam), blow, punch, shock
la châtaigne
a cat gets hit by a chestnut thrown by an aigneau
poaching
le braconnage
(animal) game
le gibier
glib about the amount of game you catch, yer?
leg (of lamb), leg (fam)
le gigot
gigi eating a leg of lamb a lot
livestock, herd
le cheptel
the shepherd has such a big herd!
stretch, spread yourseful out, roll out
étirer
retirees stretching themselves out and rolling dough
wash
ébrouer
bro, wash yourself, ey?
develop, grind
roder
rider develops skill by grinding the hooves of his horse
settle in
se roder
sit down on the road and settle in (protest)
used to
rode
dominate something
avoir la mainmise sur qqch
lifeboat, rowing boat
chaloupe
charred (burnt) wolf in a lifeboat
orchard
le verger
this orchard is verging on being a garden!
to wear somebody down
avoir qqn a l’usure
show off, act tough
craner
smash bricks against your cranium to look tough
brainwashing, cramming
bourrage de crane
bourrer
stuff, fill, force-feed
stuff yourself with butter
bourrer le cran a qqn
brainwash someone
shaved head
crane rase
time bomb
la cocotte-minute
minute clucker
waiting period
delai de carence
have smth to worry about
avoir du mouron a se faire
I have some chicks who are high on weed, have to worry about them
worry yourself sick
se faire du mouron
worry yourself sick about the chicks high on weed
whack (fam)
châtaigner
lamb hits a cat
draw lines on, crss out, eliminate, remove, scratch
rayer
gipsy
le gitan
gipsy man playing guitar
to name just a few
pour n’en citer que quelqus’uns
headquarters
le haut-lieu
headquarters on top of a clif (in a high place
to tell off
houspiller
house md tells himself off for taking pills
