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1
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Se marier bien avec

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To go well with (wine)

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Donner la parole à

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To give the floor to (someone)

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Vivre à fond

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To live life to the fullest

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Vivre à cent à l’heure

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To live life in the fast lane

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Aller faire dodo

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To go beddy-byes

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Faire abstraction de

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To overlook something

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En faire (tout) un plat

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To make a big deal out of something

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Plus de peur que de mal

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To be more scared than hurt

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Être le dindon de la farce

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To be the butt of the joke

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Se bourrer la gueule

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To get wasted

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À voir absolument (adj)

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Must-see

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À la une

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Front-page news

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Faire la gueule (à qqn)

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Be in a mood/strop

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Faire/passer une nuit blanche

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To pull an all-nighter, have a sleepless night

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En attendant

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In the meantime

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Avoir une boule au ventre

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To have knots in your stomach

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Mettre (tout le monde/qqn) d’accord

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To make someone see eye to eye

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Dès que possible

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As soon as possible

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Au plus vite

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As soon as possible

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Faire l’éloge de

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To sing someone’s praises

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Ne pas tenir la route

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To not make sense

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Il y a anguille sous roche

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I smell a rat

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Il y a baleine sous gravillon

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I smell a rat

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Comme par hasard

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Would you believe!

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Pile poil

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Exactly, precisely

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Un de ces quatre

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One of these days

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Avoir du sens

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To make sense

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Se passer de quelque chose

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To no longer use something

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Chanter comme une casserole

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To sing out of tune

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Faire la bamboula

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To party hard

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Avoir dans l’idée

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To have an inkling

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Coûter un bras

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To cost an arm

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33
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Travailler à son compte

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To be self employed

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Être mis à rude épreuve

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To really be put to the test

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À l’arrêt

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At a standstill

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Venir à l’esprit

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To come to mind

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Mal comprendre

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To misunderstand

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38
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Faire exprès de [inf]

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To do something deliberately

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39
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Jadis

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Formerly, in the olden days

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Mettre le bazar

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To make a mess

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Clouer qqn sur place

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To transfix/be transfixed

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Mourir d’envie de

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To be dying to

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Entraîner qqn dans sa chute

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Drag someone down with you

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Rabaisser son caquet à qqn

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To take someone down a peg

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Marcher comme sur des roulettes

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To run smoothly

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Être voué à l’échec

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To be doomed

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Ça vaut le coup d’œil

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It’s worth a look

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48
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Prendre la tête de/à qqn

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To give someone grief

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49
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Ça se joue à rien

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It could go either way

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En joue !

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Take aim!

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51
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Tenir qqn en haleine

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To keep someone in suspense

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52
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Ça ne te regarde pas

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None of your business

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Ce n’est pas tes oignons

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None of your business

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Mordre à l’hameçon

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To fall for, be fooled

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55
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Se retrouver sur le carreau

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To be left high and dry

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56
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Mise à plat

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Getting things straight, clarification

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57
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Dans le mille

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Bang on!

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Comme tu le sais probablement

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As you probably know

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Ne pas faire dans la dentelle

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To be rather indelicate

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Être aux prises avec

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To grapple with

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Saigner qqn à blanc

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To bleed someone dry (financially)

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Trouver le temps de faire qqch

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To get around to doing something

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Tenter sa chance

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To take a chance

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Voir le bon côté

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Look on the bright side

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Voir le bon côté

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Look on the bright side

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Lire dans les pensées de qqn

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To read someone’s mind

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Se mettre en quatre

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To bend over backwards

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Broyer du noir

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Feel downhearted

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Avoir la gorge nouée

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To have a lump in your throat

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Partir en vrille

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To go off the rails, spin out of control

71
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Avoir un chat dans la gorge

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To have lost your voice

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Se faire valoir

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To show off

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Valoir mieux faire qqch

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It would be best to do something

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Effleurer le problème/sujet

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To scratch the surface

75
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Le tour est joué

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Bobs your uncle

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Gâcher sa chance

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To miss your chance

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Pour ne rien gâcher

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What’s more

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Sécher les cours

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To skip school

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Compétent pour faire qqch

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Able to do something

80
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Digne de qqn

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Fit for (a king)

81
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Son nom ne me revient pas

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I can’t place them

82
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Redouter le pire

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Fear the worst

83
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S’attendre au pire

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Expect the worse

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Mettre les choses à plat

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To get things straight

85
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Mettre les pieds dans le plat

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To put your foot in it

86
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Avoir la dent creuse

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To be hungry

87
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Avoir/garder une dent contre qqn

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To hold a grudge

88
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Se les geler/peler

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To freeze your arse off

89
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Ne pas en revenir

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To not be able to get over it, not believe it

90
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Chanter en yaourt

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To pretend to sing a language you don’t understand

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Perdre le fil

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To lose track

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Il fait un froid de canard

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It’s really cold

93
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Ça caille !

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It’s freezing

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Il fait frisquet

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It’s chilly

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Tant que + ind

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As long as 1

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Pourvu que + subj

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As long as 2

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Prendre de l’ampleur

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To be on the rise

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Faire l’amalgame

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To lump things together, to confuse things

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Trouver chaussure à son pied

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To find what you are looking for

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Faire la loi

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To make the rules, call the shots

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Ressaisis-toi !

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Get a grip! 1

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Reprends-toi !

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Get a grip! 2

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Retirer une épine du pied

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To help someone out of a jam

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Trempé jusqu’aux os

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Soaking wet 1

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Trempé comme une soupe

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Soaking wet 2

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Coûter un bras

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To cost an arm and a leg

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Croqueuse de diamants f

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Gold digger

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Faire barrage à

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To stand in the way of

109
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Être à la traîne (en matière de)

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To lag behind, be behind on the times

110
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Courir dans tous les sens

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To run around like a headless chicken

111
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Crier au loup

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To cry wolf

112
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Cible facile f

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Sitting duck

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Quête futile f

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Wild goose chase 1

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Chasse au dahu f

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Wild goose chase 2

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L’homme est un loup pour l’homme

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Dog-eat-dog

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Vendre la mèche

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To let the cat out of the bag

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Kill two birds with one stone

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Faire d’une pierre deux coups

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Pleuvoir/tomber des cordes

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To rain cats and dogs

119
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Avoir le coup

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To have the knack, to know exactly how to do something

120
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Filer à l’anglaise

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To sneak out, make your getaway

121
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À une encablure de

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A stone throw’s away from

122
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A fortiori

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All the more so, even more so

123
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In extremis

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At the very last moment

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Intra muros

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Within [city] itself

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Y compris

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Including

126
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Partir du principe que

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To work on the assumption that

127
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Brebis galeuse

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Black sheep (figurative)

128
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Avoir sa confiance pour soi

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To have a clear conscience

129
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Cela va de soi

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That goes without saying

130
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Plus on est de fous

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The more the merrier

131
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Mettre la puce à l’oreille

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Put an idea in someone’s head

132
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Être dénué de

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To be devoid of

133
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À bout de bras

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Struggle to do something, single-handedly

134
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Être en proie à qqch

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To be plagued by something

135
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Sans queue ni tête

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Nonsensical

136
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Poser un lapin

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To stand someone up

137
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Mettre de l’eau dans son vin

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To back off/back down

138
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Se mettre sur son 31

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To get dressed up to the nines

139
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Avoir la dalle

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Could eat a horse

140
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…que dalle

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Nothing, zilch

141
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Ne piger que dalle à

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To not have a clue about

142
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Ne pas s’abaisser à répondre à qqch

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To not dignify something with an answer

143
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Tourner au vinaigre

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To turn sour (figurative)

144
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Coq-à-l’âne m

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