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

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une situation inextricable, un cercle vicieux

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Catch-22 situation

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Assaisinir ses pratiques, s’améliorer

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To clean up one’s act

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Énigme, problème épineux, dilemne

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Conundrum

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Redoutable

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Daunting

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Date butoir, dernier délai

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Deadline

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Tenir le délai

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To make the deadline

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Minorer, dédramatiser

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Downplay/Play down

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S’en donner à coeur joie

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Have a field day

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Alimenter

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To fuel

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Porte drapeau, produit phare, fleuron

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Flagship

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Plafond de verre

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Glass ceiling

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Obtenir le feu vert, l’autorisation

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Be given the go-ahead

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Causer des ravages

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To wreak havoc in/to wreak havoc with

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Devenir critique, s’exacerber

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To come to a head

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Gêner, faire obstacle à…

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To hinder

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Sujet brûlant, délicat

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Hot potato

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Publicité tapageuse, phrase grandiloquentes, hyperbole

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Hype

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Faire un battage énorme

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To hype up

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Incitation, encouragement

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Incentive

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Tête décisif, épreuve de vérité

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Litmus test

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Solution miracle

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Magic bullet

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Courants dominants

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Mainstream

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Élan, dynamisme, impulsion

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Momentum

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Externaliser, confier à

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Outsource

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Ouvrir la voie à, poser des jalons pour

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To pave the way to

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Établir, déterminer, faire apparaître

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Pinpoint

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Promettre

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To pledge

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Réorganiser, moderniser

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To revamp

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Exclure, écarter

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Rule out

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Alarmisme

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Scaremongering