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Graft ( plant or organ) n

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Greffon m
Greffer v
And greffe f graft, transplant
Greffe also addition

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Fledgling

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Oisillon m

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attractive, tempting adj
tantalizing adj
mouthwatering adj
appetizing adj

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alléchant adj

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Others npl

Other people

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Autrui

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rub shoulders with v expr

mix with stand alongside with

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Côtoyer

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timid, shy, mistrustful adj
(untamed) savage, wild adj
fierce adj

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Farouche

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Put a brave face on it

Look happy, contented

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Faire bonne figure

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Wide brimmed hat

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Capeline f

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Ebony

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Ébène f

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Burgundy, wine red (colour)

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Lie-de-vin

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Lawn

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Gazon m

And pubes inf

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Paint brush

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Pinceau m

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Profilerate, multiply abound

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Pulluler v

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Cry, grunt, scream v

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Vagir

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Dazed stupefied adj

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Hébété

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Supposed, meant inf adj

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Censé
Je n’étais pas censée les lire
I wasnt meant to…

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Pupil n (eye)

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Prunelle f
Prunelle de mes yeux
And sloe

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Sadden v

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Navrer

Cette mauvaise nouvelle me navre

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Thumb yr nose at, laugh in the face of

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Faire fi de

Fi interjektion yuck! Nah! Gosh!

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Booming fast growing

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En plein essor

Essor m rise, development

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Swaying, flapping, fluttering

Hesitation, wavering

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Flottement m

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Doggedness relentlessness

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Acharnement m

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Splint n

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Attelle f

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Easier said than done

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Plus facile à dire qu’à faire

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Dream, fantasy, illusion daydream n

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Songe m

Songer à faire qqc think of doing sth, consider doing sth

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Eye, covet, cast sidelong/envious glance at, peep at

Lust after

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Lorgner

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Give sb the cold shoulder

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Battre froid à qqn

Elle me battait froid.

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Concern n

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Sollicitude f

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Horde(people), pack (animals), drove

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Horde f

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Nose (animal)

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Truffe f

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Neigh, whinny v

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Hennir

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Lively, brisk adj

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Alerte
Elle marche d’un pas alerte
And alarm, warning, signal, scare n f

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Warmth
Lukewarmness
Coolness, half heartedness

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Tiédeur f

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Delight, exquisite pleasure f

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Volupté f

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Butch, mannish, masculine

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Hommasse adj

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Not be doing too well

Bump along not too well

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Aller cahin-caha

Cahin-caha

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Clearing

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Clairière f

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Embellishment

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Fioriture f

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Badge, crest

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Écusson m

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Cowardly adj

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Poltron m

Elle est si poltronne qu’elle se cache quand il y a de l’orage.

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Yellowing, washed out

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Pisseux

And urine-soaked, smell pf piss/urine

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packaging) pull [sth] off, tear [sth] off vtr + adv

(weeds) pull [sth] up vtr + adv

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Arracher
Fig tear [sb] away from [sb/sth] v expr
(figurative) snatch [sb] away from [sb/sth] v expr

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Devious, deceitful, treacherous

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Perfide adj

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Fuming furious adj

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Furibond

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Nonsense
Stupidity silliness
Folly

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Sottise f
Arrête de dire des sottises !
Stop talking such nonsense!

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Inch by inch

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Pouce par pouce
manger sur le pouce eat on the go v eat on the run v
ne pas bouger d’un pouce not move an inch v
ne pas céder d’un pouce. not give an inch v

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Aggressively, in a rough way

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À la russe

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) (food) trimmings npl
(informal) bits and pieces npl
Set of linen, set of jewellery

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Parure f

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Tickle v fam

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Faire des guili-guili

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Ultrasound

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Échographie f

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Learned pedantic adj

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Docte
Un ton docte
And a know it all nm,f

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Special favour,privilege

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Passe-droit m

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Recovery, healing (medical) closure (emotional)

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Guérison f

en voie de guérison (figurative) on the road to recovery

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Stupid half-witted adj and n

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Nullard -e

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Aerosol knock-out, bomb shell, stunner

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Bombe f

Il n’utilise plus de bombe insecticide pour lutter contre les moustiques.

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Bury yr head in the sand

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Faire l’autruche

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Be lucky

Luck

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Avoir du bol
Bol m and bowl
J’ai eu du bol pour l’examen.

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Phoney, false

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Bidon
Can, container, belly m

Il a inventé une histoire bidon en guise d

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alibi.

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Jump bounce hop v

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Sautiller

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Usher, bailiff

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Huissier

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To tell time

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À lire l’heure

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Shoulder (rd)

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Accotement m

Le chauffeur s’est arrêté sur le premier accotement pour soulager sa vessie.

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Calmly, thoughtfully,deliberately

Unhurriedly, at a leisurely pace

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Posément adj

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Second-hand

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En deuxième main

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Body guard

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Garde du corps

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Circumference perimeter

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Pourtour m

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Bookend

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Serre-livre m

Pl serre-livres

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Adjoining, common

(House)Terraced , semidetached

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Mitoyen adj

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feel your way along, grope your way along v expr

fumble your way along v expr

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Avancer à tâtons

Chercher à tâtons feel, grope for, around

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French door

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Porte-fenêtre f

Portes-fenêtres

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Craving, hunger, peckish

Munchies

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Fringale f

Avoir la fringale be ravenous, be starving

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Satisfy, quench, gratify

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Assouvir

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Clay n

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Glaise f

Glaiser to cover w clay

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Reed

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Roseau m

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Matchmaker

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Marieuse

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Steal, pinch, nick (slang)

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Esbigner

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Torture n

Torment, ordeal

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Supplice m

Être au supplice go through hell, be in agony

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Seconds fam
Extra helping
Extra, more

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Rab, rabe, rabiot m

A la cantine quand il y a des frites, les élèves réclament du rab

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Reduced discounted

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Au rabais

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Transfer, business trip, trip

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Déplacement m
Être en déplacement be away, be away on business

Frais de de.. Travel expenses

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Hindrance, constraint

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Entrave f

Entraver hinder and cotton on, get it inf

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Destructive
Harmful
Devastating
And ravishing

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Ravageur adj

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Cobblestone
Street, road
Slab of meat, thick slice
Massive book fig

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Pavé m
Battre le pavé roam the streete
Écrire un pavé write heaps/volumes

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Straight away, immediately, pronto

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Illico adv

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Healthy, lively
Invigorating, bracing (air)
Healthy (food)

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Tonique adj

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Household consumption

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La consommation des menagères

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Sawdust

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Sciure f

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Putty

Putty-coloured

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Mastic m,adj
Il porte toujours un pardessus mastic
L’étanchéité des vitres est assurée avec du mastic

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Basketballer

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Basketteur

Footballeur, des rugbymen

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Plane tree

Sycamore

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Platane m

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Neighbourhood, suburb

Area, district

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Faubourg m

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Smuggle

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Passer qqc en fraude

Lire en fraude smygläsa

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Climate and fig

Atmosphere fig

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Climat m
Dans le climat économique
Climat aride

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Suspender n

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Jarretelle f

Ruban pour attacher les bas

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Of course, naturally
Okay
With a knowing look
Given that, considering that

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Bien entendu
C’est entendu
D’un air entendu
Étant entendu que

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Patch plot

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lopin m
Je cultive un lopin de terre.
I cultivate a plot of land.
Lopin de terre m

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Misinterpretation

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Contresens m

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Dense (foliage)
Bushy (beard)
Dense (writing style)

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Touffu adj

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Produce deliver

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Pondre
And lay eggs
Il a encore pondu un article pour le journal.

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Ultimate

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der nmf
La première guerre mondiale devait être la der des ders.
The Great War was supposed to be the war to end all wars

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A4 page

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Feuille A4 f

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Page

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Feuillet m

Il a déjà écrit trente feuillets.

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Speed camera

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Radar m

And radar

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Weathervane

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Girouette f

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Filly

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Pouliche f

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Hinge

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Gond m

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Harness n

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Harnais m

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Shameful guilty adj

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Inavouable

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Sharp keen honed ( mind eye blade) adj

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Aiguisé

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Fervour enthusiasm zeal

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Ardeur f

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In dribs and drabs little by little

Dripper m

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Au compte-gouttes

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Narrate tell

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Narrer v

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without [sb]’s knowing, behind [sb]’s back expr

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À l’insu de qqn

A mon insu

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Linger hover

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Planer

Des doutes planent encore.

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Wild bizarre crazy preposterous

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Loufoque adj

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Make yr self cost, snug

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Se calfeutrer

Le vent souffle en tempête, je me calfeutre chez moi

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Accumulate build up hoard

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Amonceler

Il a amoncelé une petite fortune en travaillant à la banque

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Detect spot v

Reveal, indicate, find

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Déceler

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To grass, squel, inform fam

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Moucharder

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Reprimand v, n

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Semoncer
Semonce
Coup de semonce m warning shot, wake-up call

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Saving n

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Économie f

Often in pl

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Yours truly sl
Me
Fascinator

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Bibi

M

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Bell-boy

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Groom m

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Trinket, knick knack

Good luck charm

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Colifichet m

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Fabric, cloth

Material

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Étoffe f

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Bell

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Grelot m

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Crimson

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Carmin m

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Frostbite

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Gelure f

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Anvil

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Enclume f

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Baby wear/clothes

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Layette f

Le rayon layette de ce magasin est très fourni

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Sore, achy, painful, aching adj

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Endolori

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Crop ( hairstyle)

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Les cheveaux coupés court à la garçonne

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Despite

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En depit de qqc

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Besotted, in love

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épris adj
Elle est éprise d’un beau jeune homme.

s’éprendre de [ fall in love with [sb], fall for [sb]

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Paddle v

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Pagayer

Á pagayer en canoë

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Tournament

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Tournoi m

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Style type kind

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Acabit m

être du même acabit be cast in the same mould v expr

138
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Jump bounce hop

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Sautiller

sautiller sur place loc v (trépigner) bounce up and down

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Launch m (product fx)

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Lancement m

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Publication

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Parution f

date de parution nf publication date n

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Family, relations family circle

Surround

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Entourage m

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Unknown adj

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Insu

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Trust in rely on

Judge by go by

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Se fier

Je me fie à ton sens de l’orientation pour nous ramener à la maison.

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Lazybones n

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Oisif m

Idle as adj

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Peat (moss)n

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Tourbe f

146
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Sluggish lacklustre adj

Couch potatoe n

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Mollasson adj n

147
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Moor heath

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Lande f

148
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Weigh up, look up and down fog

Look at scornfully

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Toiser

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Sly, mischievous wicked

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Espiègle

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In a rage

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En furie

And fury

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Print run, printing n

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Impression f
And effect impression
aperçu avant impression print preview n

152
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inexpressible, unsayable, unspeakable adj

indescribable adj

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indicible

153
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Shot picture snapshot

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Cliché m

And cliché

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Be reluctant, baulk v

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Renâcler

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Row, paddle v

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Ramer

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Pay slip

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Fiche de paye f

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