Pages 170 - 179 Flashcards

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Vous seriez pas Marseillaise, vous?

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Are you exaggerating?

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Enjoliver

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To embellish

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Rebondissement

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A new development, surprise

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La prise en charge

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The management of an illness

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Trompé l’œil

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Optical illusion

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En faisant abstraction/allusion

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Disregarding/noticing

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Prêter attention

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Pay attention

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Un vrai casse tête

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A real headache

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9
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Une brouette

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A wheelbarrow

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Une cire

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Wax

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Cirer

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To wax

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Une cuve de miel

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A vat of honey

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13
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A garden

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Un potager

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14
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Le blé

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The wheat

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15
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L’agriculteur

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Farmer M

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L’agricultrice

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Farmer F

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17
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Les graines

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The seeds

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Semer

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To sow

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19
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Des galets

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Pebbles

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20
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Un croquis

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A sketch

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21
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Chipoter

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Nitpick

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22
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Une liseuse

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An electronic book

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Flâner

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To stroll

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En flânant

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Whilst strolling

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On est susceptible à trouver
We are likely to find
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Je me suis passé à côté de
I missed out on/ I failed to notice
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Au jour audjourd’hui
As of today
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Les mœurs, les us et coutumes
The morals, habits and customs
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Un point d’ancrage
A reference point
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J’ai tort
I am wrong
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Quelle tette de linotte tu es
You are forgetful
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Gestion
Management
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Cerner
To circle
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Le copinage
Cronyism
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Harmful
Nuisable
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Dévoiler
To reveal/ unveil
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Effrayer
To frighten
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Bien rodée
Well established
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Louche
Suspicious
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Un escroc
A swindler
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Un combinaison
A coverall
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Apiculture
Bee keeping
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Récolter
Collect/harvest
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Une cadre
A tray/ a frame
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Une ruche
A hive
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Un abeille
A bee
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Gonfler
To swell
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Brûler
To burn
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Ce dingue ce que tu racontes
It’s crazy what you say
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Fou
Mad
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Taré
Mad/ crazy
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Un plomb
A fuse
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Peter un plomb
Blow a fuse
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Le rayon
The shelf
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Un chute brusque
A sudden fall
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Je suis attente de
I am affected by
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Mettre les bouchées doublés
Work twice as hard
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Il a passé en coup de vent
He was in a rush
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Des fringues
The clothes
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Sous-entendre
Imply
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Je m’egaré
I digress
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Coûte que coûte
At all costs/ no matter what the cost
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Gagner à peine un vie
Barely earn a living
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Train-train quotidien
Daily hum-drum
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Le budget mensuel
The monthly budget
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Bien desservi
Well-connected
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Ce que vous venir de dire
What you just said
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Sorti de nul part
Out of nowhere
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Un dispositif
A plan of action
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Leur donner du grain à moudre
Give them an axe to grind
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Ils ont avaient changé leur fusil d’épaule
They have changed their tune
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Difficilement recevable
Difficult to follow/accept
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Les péripéties at rembondissements
The turns and twists
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Rocombalesque
Incredible
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Abracadabrant
Incredible