Trduction Jones

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Tabagisme passif

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Second-hand smoking

Question 2

Les contrevenants s’exposent à de lourdes amendes

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Breaking the law is not cheap

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Avoir du pain sur la planche

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His plate is full

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Les OGM

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GMOs

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Un moyen

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A tool

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Soja

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Soy

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Être tolérant à l’égard de qc

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To have liberal

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Relation homosexuelle

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Same-sex relationship

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Ne pas se tromper

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To get one’s priorities right if

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Être en voix d’achèvement

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To be nearing

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Café moulu

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Ground coffee

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Les gens n’ont eu d’yeux que pour B.P au Festival de Cannes

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B.P stole the show at the Cannes film festival

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Être laid

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To be an eyesore

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Homologues

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Counterparts

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La politique de l’enfant unique en Chine a créé un déséquilibre hommes-femmes.

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The China’s one-child policy has created a gender gap.

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La population chinoise n’a pas encore atteint sont point culminant.

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The Chinese population has yet to peak

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Feu vert

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Green light

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Il faudra probablement des années

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It is likely to be years

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L’agitation pourrait faire tache d’huile dans tout le pays

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The turmoil might spread to the whole country

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La suppression d’emplois massives

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The massive job cuts

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Les syndicats

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Union leaders

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Allocations familiales

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Family allowances / benefits

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Prospérer pendant les années de croissance

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To thrive during the boom years

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Internet est-il un réel progrès ou un fléau ?

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Is the Internet a boon or a bane ?

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Tout n’est pas sombre malgré la récession.

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Is it not all doom and gloom despite the recession.

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Un feu de paille

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A flash in the pan

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Vendre la peau de l’ours

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To count their chickens

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Pour certain, le naturel a repris le dessus

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Some have reverted to type

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A présent, les rôles sont inversés

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Now the boot is on the other foot.

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Endiguer

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To stem

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Le flot

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The tide

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Il pourrait s’en mordre les doigts

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He might live to regret it.

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Blanc de poulet

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Breast

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Cuisse de poulet

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Leg

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La crise économique

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The economic crisis (crises => +2)

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Peu cher, économe

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Economical

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La crise des jobs

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The job crisis

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Peu probable

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To be unlikely to do

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Être de courte durée

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To be short-lived

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Empirer

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To worsen / to get worse

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Améliorer

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To get better

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Aggraver la situation

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To make matters worse

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Un coup de peinture

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A lick of paint

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Mesurer

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To go by

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Assister à un meeting / une réunion

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To attend a meeting

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Être révolue

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Gone are the days

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Avoir son mot à dire

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To have a say

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Un balancier

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A pendulum

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Balancer

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To swing

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Fatalement

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Is bound

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Un résultat serré

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A close call

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Frôler la mort

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A close call with death

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Être radin

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To be tight

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Faire qc de manière spontanée / sans réfléchir

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To do something at the drop of a hat

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Temps plein ≠ temps partiel

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To work full time ≠ to work part time

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Éloigné

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Remote

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Télécharger ≠ importer/publier

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Download ≠ upload

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Une couverture

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A blanket

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Interdire

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To ban

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Une interdiction totale

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A blanket ban

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Par tout le monde

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Unanimously

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Est maintenant approuvée par tout le monde

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Is unanimously applauded

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Renoncer à

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To give up

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Supprimer des emplois

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To shed jobs

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Augmentation de paye

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Pay rise

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Qui porte la marque

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Own-brands

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Censée

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Sensible

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Sensible

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Sensitive

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Parvenir à

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To manage to do something

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Prudence

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Caution

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Optimiste prudent

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Cautiously optimistic

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Indéniablement

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Doublessing / undeniably

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Faire face à

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To face the crisis / to be faced with/by

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Une crise économique ≠ une reprise économique

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Downturn ≠ upturn

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Qui n’en fini pas

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As cost keep (+ing) As cost keep rising

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Mieux réussir que

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To outperform

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Il y a moins de femme

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There are fewer women

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Le responsable (dans un magasin)

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The manager

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Le responsable (syndicat ou autre)

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The official

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La curiosité est un vilain défaut

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Curiosity killed the cat

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Effondrement

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A slump

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S’effondrer

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To collapse

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Immobilier

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The property-estate market

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Tenir tête à quelqu’un

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To stand-up to someone

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Défendre qc

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To stand-up for something

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Tu ferais mieux de…

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You’d better…

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Dire à quelqu’un ses 4 vérités / être franc

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To tell someone a few home truths

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Un décalage de 15 ans

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A 15 year time-long

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Sur le point de faire faillite

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About to belly up

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Plus compliqué que cela en a l’air

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There are wheels within wheels

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S’engager

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To pledge

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Une force avec laquelle il faut compter

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A force to be reckoned with

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Disparaître en un clin d’œil

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To go in a flash

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Se rendre compte

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To wake up

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Suivre

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To toe

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Fuir

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To shy away

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Du jour au lendemain

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Overnight

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Faire ou défaire

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Make or break

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Marche ou crève

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Sink or swim

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Promesse en l’air

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Empty promises

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Incontrôlable

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To spiral out of control

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Conséquence à long terme sur qc risquant d’être désastreux

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We are sitting on something time-bomb

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Donner comme favori

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To be tip

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Salaire

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Wage

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Grossir les rangs

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To join the ranks

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S’engager sur une pente savonneuse

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It’s the thin end of the wedge

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Élevé dans du coton

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Molly cuddled

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Entre parenthèses

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On hold

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Se font rares

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Has been thin on the ground

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Tôt ou tard

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Soon or later

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Un retour de balancier

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The pendulum is bound to swing back