Mots/Expressions Récurrent Dans La Presse Flashcards by Maëva B

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Inflexible, catégorique

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Adamant

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Remédier à/s’attaquer à/se pencher sur

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Address

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Préconiser/Prôner

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Advocate

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À l’ordre du jour

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On the agenda

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Accorder un degré de priorité élevé à

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High on the agenda

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Établir l’ordre du jour

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To set the agenda

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Sonnette d’alarme

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Alarm bells

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Apparemment

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Allegedly

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Qui aurait été

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Reportedly

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Faire cavalier seul

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To go it alone

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La candidature

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Application

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Peut-être, d’une certaine façon, dans un certain sens

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Arguably

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Évaluer, apprécier, prendre la mesure de

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Assess

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Au final, en fin de compte

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At the end of the day

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Ont mal tourné

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To go awry, to go pear-shaped

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Supprimer

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Axe

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Mettre en attente/en veilleuse

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Back burner

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Se rallier au mouvement, emboîter le pas

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To jump on the bandwagon

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Point de référence

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Benchmark

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Projet/Programme

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Blueprint

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Se résumer à

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To boil down to

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Avancée capitale/percée/tournant décisif

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Breakthrough

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Être frappé de plein fouet/être la principale victime de

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To bear the brunt

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Rejeter la responsabilité sur

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To pass the buck

une situation inextricable, un cercle vicieux

Catch-22 situation

Assaisinir ses pratiques, s'améliorer

To clean up one's act

Énigme, problème épineux, dilemne

Conundrum

Redoutable

Daunting

Date butoir, dernier délai

Deadline

Tenir le délai

To make the deadline

Minorer, dédramatiser

Downplay/Play down

S'en donner à coeur joie

Have a field day

Alimenter

To fuel

Porte drapeau, produit phare, fleuron

Flagship

Plafond de verre

Glass ceiling

Obtenir le feu vert, l'autorisation

Be given the go-ahead

Causer des ravages

To wreak havoc in/to wreak havoc with

Devenir critique, s'exacerber

To come to a head

Gêner, faire obstacle à...

To hinder

Sujet brûlant, délicat

Hot potato

Publicité tapageuse, phrase grandiloquentes, hyperbole

Hype

Faire un battage énorme

To hype up

Incitation, encouragement

Incentive

Tête décisif, épreuve de vérité

Litmus test

Solution miracle

Magic bullet

Courants dominants

Mainstream

Élan, dynamisme, impulsion

Momentum

Externaliser, confier à

Outsource

Ouvrir la voie à, poser des jalons pour

To pave the way to

Établir, déterminer, faire apparaître

Pinpoint

Promettre

To pledge

Réorganiser, moderniser

To revamp

Exclure, écarter

Rule out

Alarmisme

Scaremongering