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Pour Pimenter Flashcards

1
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To send someone to stand in the corner

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Mettre quelqu’un au piquet

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Check out (ie look at)

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Mater, viser

Mate-moi ce type avec le haut-de-forme !
Vise un peu ce type avec le haut-de-forme !

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To saddle/pin someone with something unpleasant

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Affubler quelqu’un de

On l’affubla d’un sobriquet toute sa jeunesse.

(Affubler quelqu’un de quelque chose can also mean ‘to deck someone out in something’)

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To get up on the wrong side of the bed

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Se lever du mauvais pied/du pied gauche

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Trifles, to get stressed out over nothing

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Des broutilles, se stresser pour des broutilles

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To be on the run

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Être en cavale

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To be a good scapegoat/take the blame

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Avoir bon dos

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This is getting me down

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Ça me fout le bourdon

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9
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To praise to the skies

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Encenser

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I can’t be bothered to

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J’ai la flemme de

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To be sure in one’s mind about it, to be sure about it

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En avoir le cœur net

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To unearth (rare object, e.g. in secondhand shop)

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Dégotter

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Hours

To take hours to make a decision

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Plombes

Mettre des plombes à prendre une décision

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14
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To shillyshally, without hesitation/shillyshallying

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Barguigner, sans barguigner

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To make an effort, put one’s mind to it, do one’s part

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Y mettre du sien

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16
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Good riddance

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Bon débarras

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17
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To have guts
To have the guts to…

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Avoir du cran
Avoir le cran de (faire…)

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18
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A rip-off

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Une arnaque

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19
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To be freezing cold

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Se cailler les miches

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20
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To come up with/churn out

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Pondre

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21
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Immediately

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Aussi sec

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22
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To swat up on

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Potasser

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23
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To spurn/turn one’s nose up at/ignore (e.g. rules)

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Faire fi de

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Slow to react/catch on

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Lent/long à la détente

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25
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To be taken aback by an event

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Tomber de la lune

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26
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En voiture Simone, c’est moi qui conduis, c’est toi qui klaxonnes !

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(Blague de télé des 1960s)

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27
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Coucouche panier!

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(Imperative — to pet, or someone very close, or self — childish language to say “off to bed” or “time for bed”)

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28
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To come to an abrupt end

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Tourner court

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29
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Jammed, seized up

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Grippé

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30
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Blunder

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Bourde

Faire une bourde: to blunder, make a gaffe

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31
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To be on autopilot

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Être/marcher/avancer au radar

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32
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Thingy

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Fourbi

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33
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To have ones back against the wall (no way out)

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Être aux abois

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34
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Hassle

What a hassle
It’s a real hassle to do XYZ

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Galère

Quelle galère: what a hassle
C’est la galère pour faire qqc: it’s a real hassle to do XYZ

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35
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To panic/feel down/have a bad trip

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Flipper

Faire flipper qqn: get someone down

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36
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To bawl/blubber

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Chialer

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37
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To get little for one’s pains/efforts

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En être pour ses frais

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38
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In spite of oneself, through no will of one’s own

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À son corps défendant

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39
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To stuff oneself with (cakes, sweets)

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S’empiffrer de (gâteaux, bonbons)

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40
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Rotten luck

To give bad luck to someone
To have rotten luck
Bad luck!

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La poisse

Porter la poisse à qqn
Avoir la poisse
Quelle poisse !

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41
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Without further ado

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Sans plus de façons

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42
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Je t’emmerde

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Screw you

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43
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To call the shots

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Faire la pluie et le beau temps

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44
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Mettre sur pied

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To arrange, draw up

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45
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Faire le plein de qqc

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To stock up on/get one’s fill of

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46
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To toughen up

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S’endurcir

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47
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To rig oneself up (clothing) (comme un lord)

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Se saper

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48
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Estomaqué

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Stunned/flabbergasted

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49
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C’est donnant donnant

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Fair’s fair/I want something in return

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50
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To cheer up

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Dérider

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51
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Vlan !

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Wham/smack/smack/thud

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52
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Un capharnaüm

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Shambles, chaos (eg house)

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53
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To get a move on

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Grouiller

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54
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Point blank/out of the blue

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À brûle-pourpoint

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55
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Déteindre sur quelqu’un

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To rub off on someone

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56
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Ne pas être dans son assiette

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Ne pas être dans son état normal, physiquement et/ou moralement

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57
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To stand around gawping/like a lump

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Bayer aux corneilles

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58
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Lucky devil

To be lucky

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Veinard.e

Avoir de la veine

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59
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Confused/out of it // isolated/remote/godforsaken

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Paumé

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60
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Percer qqn à jour

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To see through someone

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61
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It’s too late to worry about that!

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On n’est plus à ça près !

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62
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To play for time

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Botter en touche

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63
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~ to cry one’s face off

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Pleurer comme une Madeleine, pleurer toutes les larmes de son corps

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64
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Baguenauder

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To amble, stroll, drift along

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65
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En être pour des frais

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To get little for one’s pains

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66
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To keep one’s eyes peeled

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Ouvrir l’œil

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67
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Brosser un tableau

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To paint a picture (figurative)

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68
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Tu peux aller te rhabiller !

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Eat your heart out!

To have nothing on, e.g., Face au champion russe qui a pulvérisé pas moins de 5 records mondiaux en une semaine, ses adversaires peuvent aller se rhabiller.

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69
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En arrière-pensée, derrière la tête

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In the back of one’s mind

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70
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To be more than a match for

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En remontrer à

Malgré son âge, ce pongiste peut encore en remontrer aux plus jeunes

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71
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To be on a roll

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Être en veine, avoir le vent en poupe

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72
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Stumbling block

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Une pierre d’achoppement

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73
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To stick to your ribs

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Tenir au corps

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74
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To bore

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Bassiner

Tu nous bassines avec ça !

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75
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Stark raving mad

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Fou à lier

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76
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Finders keepers

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Qui trouve garde

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77
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To ogle/eye up

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Reluquer

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78
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To be in the running (have a chance of winning)

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Être en lice

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79
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It never rains but it pours

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Jamais deux sans trois

Un malheur n’arrive jamais seul

C’est tout un ou tout l’autre (plutôt positif)

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To mull over, ponder // dream up, cook up

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Gamberger

ça m’a fait gamberger, cette histoire :
this business really made me think

je me demande ce qu’il gamberge : I wonder what he’s up to

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81
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It’s now or never!

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C’est l’instant fatidique !

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82
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To be seeing things

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Avoir la berlue

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83
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To wind someone up

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Mettre quelqu’un en boîte

84
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To get along/scrape by

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Vivoter

Vivoter de (ex. ses tableaux) : to scrape a living from (e.g., one’s paintings)

85
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It might not seem like much//although she/he didn’t show it

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Mine de rien

86
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To trifle with/mess around with

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Badiner avec

Ne pas badiner avec: take seriously

87
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Absolutely nothing, nowt, zip

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Que dalle

Mais personne n’y comprenait que dalle

88
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Call every name under the sun

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Engueuler comme du poisson pourri

89
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Annoying, tiresome

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Emmerdant

90
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To look half-asleep
//To be naive (think you will easily get what you’re looking for)

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Avoir la gueule enfarinée

91
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Meandering, rambling, jumping from one thing to another

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À bâtons rompus

Parler à bâtons rompus
Talk about this and that

92
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To be where we should be/where we expected to be/right on course

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Être dans les clous

93
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A wee bit

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Un chouia

94
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To hate (someone)

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Ne pas pouvoir voir en peinture (quelqu’un)

95
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To interfere with

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S’immiscer dans

96
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Convoluted

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Tarabiscoté, alambiqué

97
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Skiver, dodger

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Tire-au-flanc (toujours masculin)

98
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To use something to your advantage

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Utiliser quelque chose à son avantage, faire jouer

99
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To teach someone a lesson, to put someone in their place

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Moucher qqn

100
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To work on (travailler sur)

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Plancher sur

101
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Haphazardly, trusting to fate

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Au petit bonheur la chance

102
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That’s enough! That’s it!

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Basta

103
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To go again, have another go

There she goes again!
I don’t want to go through that again!
Come on, let’s have another round! (E.g. coffee)

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Remettre ça

Voilà qu’elle remet ça !
Je n’ai pas envie de remettre ça !
Allez, on remets ça !

104
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Watch out (for)

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Faire gaffe (à)

Fait gaffe à la marche : mind the step
Fait gaffe ! Watch it!

105
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To work twice as hard, put on a spurt

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Mettre les bouchées doubles

106
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To sit on the fence (keep both sides sweet)

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Ménager la chèvre et le chou

107
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You can say that again

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Tu l’as dit !
Et comment !
C’est clair !

108
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To wear oneself out doing

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S’échiner à

109
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To not give a damn

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En contreficher

Je m’en contrefiches

110
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To get bogged down (literal and figurative)

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S’embourber dans

111
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To addle

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Détraquer

Toutes ces études lui ont détraqué le cerveau

112
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Stinking (e.g. cold), blazing (e.g. row), steep (e.g. bill)

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Carabiné

113
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To lie fallow

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Être en jachère

114
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To be in limbo (/ to not have got off the ground)

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Être dans les limbes

115
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It’s a piece of cake!

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C’est du gâteau !

116
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There’s no one around/the place is deserted

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Il n’y a pas un chat

117
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Exhausted, done (horse: foundered)

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Fourbu(e)

118
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Down to earth, matter of fact/mundane

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Terre à terre

119
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Livid, hopping mad

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Furax

120
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Amazed

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Épaté(e)

121
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To be running late

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Être à la bourre

122
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It’s as clear as mud!

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C’est d’un clair !

123
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Like you wouldn’t believe, like it’s going out of style

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Comme c’est pas permis

124
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To be scared stiff

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Avoir les jetons

125
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To put the wind up someone

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Ficher les jetons à qqn

126
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To be in luck (at certain moment)/to be lucky (generally)

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Avoir du pot

127
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Just goes to show/who’d have thought/that’s a turn up for the books

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Comme quoi !

128
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It’s all a lie/made up

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C’est du pipeau

129
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It’s been ages (since)

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Ça fait un bail (que)

130
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To be a mixed bag

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Y avoir à boire et à manger

131
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Hardcore/awesome/that rocks

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C’est du lourd !

132
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To provide help with moving towards solving a problem

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Faire avancer le schmilblick

Se plaindre ne va pas faire avancer le schmilblick…

133
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A leopard cannot change its spots

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On ne se refait pais

134
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Amazing, incredible, unbelievable//unprecedented, unheard of

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Inouï(e)

135
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(Hitherto) unpublished//new, original

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Inédit

136
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To have a mental block about…

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Bloquer sur…

Je bloque sur ce mot

137
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To not measure up, to not stand a chance (of/against)

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Ne pas faire le poids

138
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Pernickety

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Tatillon(ne)

139
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To skimp on

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Lésiner sur

140
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Pull the wool over someone’s eyes

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Donner le change à qqn

141
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To make allowances

(Also means to distinguish between (e.g., real and fake), to put into the correct context, to get perspective)

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Faire la part des choses

142
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To bite off more than you can chew

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Avoir les yeux plus gros que le ventre

143
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Red herring

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Un truc pour nous dépister

144
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On the back foot

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Sur la défensive

145
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Left and right, in all directions

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Tous azimuts

146
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Have to be joking/kidding//that’s a good one!

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En avoir de bonnes

Il en a de bonnes, lui !

147
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Seen it all before

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En avoir vu d’autres

148
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To have nothing to do with it/not be involved

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N’y être pour rien

149
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Mind-numbing

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Débilitant(e) [also can mean debilitating]

Abrutissant

150
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To think the moon is made of cheese/to not know one’s arse from one’s elbow

To pull the wool over someone’s eyes

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Prendre des vessies pour des lanternes

Faire prendre des vessies pour des lanternes

151
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To be big-headed

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Avoir le melon

152
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To think you’re a lot more important than you are

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Ne pas se prendre pour la queue d’une poire

153
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To give it all you’ve got//spare no expense

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Mettre le paquet

154
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To throw someone, knock someone for six

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En boucher un coin à qqn

155
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To hang/stand around

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Poireauter

156
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Chock-a-block, jam-packed

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Blindé

157
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Tricky

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Coton

158
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Have a ball

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S’éclater

159
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To do someone a favour/a kindness/a good turn

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Faire une fleur à qqn

160
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To know a thing or two (about)

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En connaître un rayon (sur)

161
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To butter someone up

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Passer de la pommade à qqn

162
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Aimer beaucoup

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Raffoler de

163
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To lose one’s temper with s.o.

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Se prendre le chou avec qqn

164
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Commotion, rumpus//jumble, disorder

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Le remue-ménage

165
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Here we go again!
Same thing again

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Rebelote

166
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Killer (adjective: extreme)

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De la mort qui tue

167
Q

La sensation d’un bon alcool dans l’œsophage

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(C’est) le petit Jésus en culotte de velours

168
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That’s an understatement

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C’est rien de le dire

169
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An extra-special something

A

Un supplément d’âme

Cette chanteuse a un petit supplément d’âme qui rend ses chansons particulières.

170
Q

Outlet, release

Tennis is my release after work

A

Exutoire (m)

Le tennis, c’est mon exutoire après le travail

171
Q

To put someone in their place, tell someone where to get off

A

Rembarrer quelqu’un

172
Q

Let’s get back to the subject at hand/on track

A

Revenons à nos moutons

173
Q

I don’t like the look of him/her

I can’t place him/her

A

Sa tête ne me revient pas

174
Q

It might as well be
It’s as good as

A

C’est tout comme

175
Q

To push it a bit/go a little too far

A

Pousser le bouchon un peu

176
Q

To chuck out

A

Bazarder

177
Q

To come to terms with an unpleasant situation/fact

A

Se faire une raison

178
Q

To arrive at just the right time

A

Tomber/arriver à pic

179
Q

Stroke of luck

A

Coup de bol

180
Q

Good as new (antique, historical site)

A

Dans son jus

181
Q

To rub it in

A

La ramener

182
Q

To be thrown in at the deep end

A

Être jeté dans le grand bain

183
Q

Cushy, easy

A

Peinard

On sera peinards

184
Q

Not be up to it

A

Ne pas avoir le gabarit

185
Q

Double quick, on the double

A

Dare-dare

186
Q

It’s all of a muchness/same difference/it all comes to the same thing

A

C’est kif-kif bourricot

187
Q

To monopolise the conversation/take on the role of keeping the conversation going

A

Tenir le crachoir

188
Q

To rip off/scam/con

A

Entuber

189
Q

To stand someone up

A

Poser un lapin à qqn

190
Q

To be in the same boat

A

Être logé à la même enseigne

191
Q

To have a lot of work to do

A

Avoir du pain sur la planche

192
Q

It’s no easy feat

A

Ce n’est pas de la tarte

193
Q

It’s the end, it’s over, all hope is gone (often said a bit ironically/comically)

A

C’est la fin des haricots

194
Q

To be on good form

A

Avoir la pêche

195
Q

To have the experience/expertise that comes with age

A

Avoir de la bouteille

196
Q

To get on someone’s nerves

A

Courir sur le haricot de qqn

Elle commence à me courir sur le haricot

197
Q

To be unnecessarily wordy

A

Écrire des tartines

Un paragraphe suffira, ce n’est pas la peine d’en écrire des tartines

198
Q

It’s boiling!

A

Quelle étuve !
(Steamroom, sauna)

199
Q

To make a big deal out of something small

A

En faite tout un fromage

200
Q

To make a big deal out of something small

A

En faire tout un fromage

201
Q

To be the very last in a competitive game or ranking

A

Être dans les choux

202
Q

To be quick off the mark / fly off the handle

A

démarrer au quart de tour

203
Q

Show-off, big-head

A

Crâneur / crâneuse

204
Q

l’énergie retrouvée après une maladie ou la reprise du combat après un échec

A

reprendre du poil de la bête

205
Q

To be paid peanuts

A

Être payé(e) au lance-pierre

206
Q

To give someone the cold shoulder

A

Battre froid à qqn

207
Q

To take all the credit

A

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