Liliane Flashcards
Job applicant
Postulant-e
Classifieds
Les petites annonces
Boss
Patron -ne
Skill n
Compétence f
Being hired
Etre embauché ou engagé
A trade
Métier m
A career
Carrière f
Full time
À plein temps
Part time
À mi-temps
To work overtime
Faire des heures supplémentaires
Days off
Jours de congés
Service station attendant
Pompiste m
An accountant
Comptable mf
Overworked
Etre surmené
Fired
Mettre à la porte
To quit (a job)
Donner sa démission
Establishment
Implantation f
Turnover, revenue
Chiffre d’affaires
Disheartening
Décourageant
Distinct, separate adj
Étanche
Eliminate
Effacer
To relax
Se détendre
Speciality
Créneau
Worship n
Culte m
Intertwined, mixed together
Entremêler
Turn off, stop something
Débrancher
Install (not machine)
Inculquer
Sea sick
Mal de mer
To potter around
Bricoler
Hobby
Passe-temps m
Shiver, quiver
Frisonner
Peaky, pale fam
Pâlichon
Rum
Rhum m
Grumle, grunt(pig), growl (dog)
Grogner
Hemp, cannabis
Chanvre m
Ring m
Bague f
Engagement ring
Bague de fiançailles f
Border, edge, edging
Bordure f
On the road side, at the edge/side of the road,
En bordure de route
Vest, singlet
Maillot de corps m
Peacefully
Paisiblement
Hit, strike, whack
Taper
Coo, trill
Roucouler
Ill/bad tempered, gloomy, dull
Maussade
On tip-toe
Sur la pointe de pieds
Barley, barley sugar
Orge f
Sucre d’ orge m
Mother of pearl
Nacre
Nacré pearly white
Give up
Renoncer
Small, slender, slight, petite
Menu -e
Tough, hefty
Costaud
Ashtray
Cendrier m
Small but tough expr
Petit mais costaud
Umpteenth adj
Énième
Nième nothing adj
Be bitterly/ icy cold
Faire un froid de canard
Il fait un froid de canard it is freezing
Control, govern, rule
Régenter
Shudder, shake, tremble verb
Tresaillir
To land, to end up
Atterrir
Give a helping hand
Donner un coup de main
Pig out on slang, puff up, take up all yr energy
Bouffer
(Kitchen) sink
Eviér ( de cuisine) f
Armpit
Aisselle f
Frying pan
Poêle f
Breeze n
Shatter, break up v
Brise f
Briser
Natural, innate, inborn
Inné
Le sens inné
Under the stars, in the open
À la belle étoile
Étoilé starry, star shaped, star-spangled
Shed light on, light up, illuminate
Éclairer
Heart and soul
Tripes mpl
To miss
Rater
Solve, resolve
Résoudrer
Trunk (case), boot (car)
Malle f
Try, attempt, tempt
Tenter
Pillowslip
Taie d’oreiller f
Oreiller m
Lopsided, crooked, one sided
De guingois
Crrok, scoundrel inf, scullywag (child)
Canaille
A bit of
Un brin de
Un brin a tad inf
Brine f blade, sprig
To pace
Faire les cent pas
Lollipop, lolly, dummy
Sucette f
Soft toy
Jouet en peluche m
Path, way
Sentier m
Sentier battu beaten track
Sentier littoral/ côtier coast path
Sentier de randonnée hiking trail m
Bladder
Vessie f
Burden, load, weight fig
Fardeau m
Have a grudge against, hold sth ag sby
Avoir une dent contre qqn
Relief, respite n
Soulagement m
Breathe a huge sigh of relief
Let out a sigh of relief
Poussier un ouf de soulagement
Soulagement nm relief, respite
Rot, decay, decompose v
Pourrir also fig to spoil totten
Slap n
Taloche f
Material, cloth, fabric
Étoffe f
Back lash
Retour de manivelle m
Manivelle crank, handle
Think or consider doing sth
Songer à faire qqc
Flush v
S’empourprer
Undermine, to sap
Saper
Enleash, set in motion, engage
Enclencher
S’enclencher get under way, set off
Hoof
Sabot m
Shortish adj
Courtaud -e
Scramble, interfere
Brouiller
Squabble, quarrell, fall out inf
Se brouiller
Elm
Orme f
Puddle
Flaque f
+de boue mudpuddle
Smear, mutter, grumble, make quesy
Barbouiller
Lapping, swash (water,liquid) n
Clapotis m
Twig, stalk
Brindille f
Guard rail, barrier
Rambarde f
Gravel
Gravier m
Spoils, loot, booty
Butin m
Finish off, complete
Achever
Converible car
Spider m
(Humming noise ) zoom n
Vrombissement m