Other Flashcards
Les Hauts de Hurlevent
Wuthering Heights
Types of crimes
Felonies: the most serious
Misdemeanours
Historical and still applicable in some jurisdictions in the US
Tour penchée de Pise en anglais
Leaning tower of Pisa
Se battre contre des moulins à vent
Tilting at windmills
(From jousting)
Sound made by a trumpet
Doot
Synonym of bureaucracy and why
Red tape
String was used to bind documents together and red tape for urgent ones in an effort to streamline the administration of Charles V’s vast empire
AFK
Away from keyboard
Baseball images for sex
First base: kissing
Second base: touching breast
Third base: touching sex
Home base: sex
Piggybacking
Following someone through a secure door without using a badge
Sundry shop
[Malaysia] delicatessen (épicerie fine) (mostly Chinese food)
One of the reasons of the success of early Singapore
It attracted the Bugis traders and Teochew planters from Riau, then declining
Flax
+ synonym
«Lin cultivé» (nom de l’espèce cultivée pour sa fibre et ses graines)
- linseed
Bouvier bernois
Bernese mountain dog
Catch 22
A situation where all choices result in the same outcome
SIF
Someone I’d fuck
Quid pro quo
“This for that” = donnant-donnant, surtout dans le contexte juridique
Différent du français “quiproquo”