Le Monde 4 Flashcards
Death row
Le couloir de la mort
Mushy, soppy
Tear-jerker
Mièvre adj
Bland, insipid
Leave for good
Quitter pour le bon
Volume(book)
Tome m
Hoax fraud swindle
Scam con rip off
Arnaque f
Worrying, concerning
Préoccupant
Absorbing, preoccupying
Crackle, patter (rain), sizzle (oil)
Crépiter
Under-growth
Sous-bois m
Fugitive, deserter
Fuyard
Surrounding area, outskirts
Abords mpl
Death penalty
La peine de mort
Tuft of hair
Tussock, clump
Touffe f
Pubes sl
Omen
Augure m
And fortune teller
De bon augure a gd omen for
Down to earth
(Etre) terre à terre
Inappropriate, ill chosen
Unwelcome. Annoying. Awkward
Importun adj
21st birthday
Vingt et unième anniversaire
Recall, look back on, remember
Reminisce, relive
Remémorer
Se remémorer
Snapshot, shot, picture
Cliché m
And cliché
Hit strike
Crack down clamp down
Put yr foot down come down hard on sb
Sévir
Squirt, jet n
Giclée f
Charcoal sketch, drawing
Fusain m
Publication
Parution f
Date de … Release date
Parution d’un article publ of an article
Coast guard
Les garde-côtes
Smooch, kiss
Bécoter
Stiff ( slang noun)
Macchabée
Ogle v
Reluquer
Slang: arse, tits, boobs
Big round loaf
Miches f pl
Scarper, bolt, run off, scurry away
Détaler
Hiding, spanking, beating, trashing
Raclée f
Notre équipe a pris une raclée dimanche dernier
Bless v
Bėnir
Silhouette
Ombre chinoise f
Nfpl shadow puppet show
Flock (bird), swarm, flock, throng (people)
Cloud
Nuée f
Retreat, hideaway
Tanière f
Bigwig, VIP
Huile f
Oil
Harvest (grapes)
Crop of grapes
Vendange f
Logo, emblem
Sign
Enseigne f
Mocking jeering adj
Goguenard
Sticker
Autocollant m
Bumper sticker
Self-adhesive
Lose control
Perdre pied
Head-over-heals
Madly, to distraction, hopelessly
Éperdument
Deteriorate
Décompenser
Be dumbfounded, gob smacked, flabbergasted
Tomber des nues
Nues nfpl heavens, skies,mclouds
Combat á mains nues hand to hand combat
Beat, thrash, give sb a good hiding
Rosser
Be in the way, take up too much space, be a nuisance
Encombrer
Impede, block
S’encombrer de qqc hoard, clutter yr home with sth
Old knick knacks
Vieilleries
Not run smoothly
Have a screw loose
Be pas tourner rond
Go through a red light
Brûler un feu, brûler un stop
Breatalizer
Contrôle éthylométrique m
Back ßeat (car)
Banquette arrière
Procrastinate
Play for time
Um and ah
Tergiverser
Play for time
Jouer la montre
Hurtle, burst into view
Turn up, drop by, pop by
Débouler
Straight
Rectiligne
La route était …
Gun, pistol
Flingue m
Flinguer qqn to shoot sb
Flinguer qqc shoot down in flames, shoot full of holes
Challenge n
Défi m
Challenge sb to do st mettre qqn au défi de faire qqc
Out of defiance par défi
Rise to a ch relever un défi
Globalisation
Mondialisation f
And globalisation