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an apprentice

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un apprenti, une apprentie

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to run away from home; to elope

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faire une fugue

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to mix with, to deal with

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côtoyer

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a mantelpiece; a door/window frame

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un chambranle

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to wallow, to sprawl out

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se vautrer

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a murderous look

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un regard torve

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milky

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laiteux

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to shut oneself away

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se murer

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to interfere with, to enter into

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s’immiscer dans

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a handyman

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un factotum

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to tumble, to fall over

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culbuter

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haste, rashness

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une précipitation

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astride

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à califourchon

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untimely, inopportune (formal)

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malvenu (sou)

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to worry, to bother

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tracasser

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disdain, contempt

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le dédain

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to excite, to alure

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affrioler

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a cherub

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un angelot

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infidel, miscreant (lit)

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un mécréant, une mécréante (litt)

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medicated

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médicamenteux

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to sting, to smart

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picoter

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a tank top

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un débardeur

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a belly/gut; a flop/failure (fam)

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un bide (fam)

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to rely/bank on

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escompter

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to plunge into mourning, to cast a tragic shadow over

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endeuiller

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panning for gold

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l’orpaillage (m)

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a cover charge

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un couvert

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burning, stinging (adj)

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cuisant

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a (financial) asset, a credit

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un actif

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to announce/inform somebody of something

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faire part de qqch à qqn

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to guide, to pilot, to show around

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piloter

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to putoff/postpone, to transfer, to carry over

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reporter

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a shoehorn

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un chausse-pied

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an average Joe (fam)

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un individu lambda

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a defendant, a prisoner

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un prévenu, une prévenue

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jubilation, exhilaration (lit)

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la liesse (litt)

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slush; muck (fam)

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la bouillasse

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neverending, endless

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sempiternel

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39
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to step on someone’s toes

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marcher sur/piétiner les plates-bandes de qqn

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a piece of junk, a dreadful film (fam)

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un nanar (fam)

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reserve, self-control; detention

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une retenue

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a (steep) slope; a side/aspect (of an argument)

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un versant (abrupt)

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43
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to make dizzy

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entêter

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44
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tongs (fireplace)

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des pincettes

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45
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to chew someone out

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engueuler qqn

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46
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an easiness, ease

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une facilité

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47
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an abacus

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un boulier

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48
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an event, episode, adventure

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une péripétie

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49
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a simpleton, a halfwit, a nincompoop (form)

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un niais, une niaise (sou)

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sharp/on the dot (fam)

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pétant (fam)

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51
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a sailor, a seaman

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un matelot

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52
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a dividing/splitting up

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un fractionnement

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53
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frivolous, shallow

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frivole

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54
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a principal (hs)

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un proviseur

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55
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a magazine/clip

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un chargeur

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a jar, a bottle

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un bocal

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57
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to botch (fam)

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torcher (fam)

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58
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to fall through, to fail (fam)

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foirer (fam)

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59
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a partition

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une cloison

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60
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a pair of pruning shears

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un sécateur

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61
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morale, spirits

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le moral

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62
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a fit of rage; to be all the rage

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un accès de fureur; faire fureur

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to give (fam); to unload a problem on someone

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refiler (fam); refiler le bébé à qqn

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64
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a horse-drawn carriage

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une calèche

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to move, to scoot

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se pousser

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regulation (adj)

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réglementaire

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a pupil (eye)

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une prunelle, une pupille

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a stench, a stink

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des relents (m, typiquement pluriel)

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69
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molasses

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la mélasse

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70
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mocking/derisive (smile)

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(un sourire) narquois

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unacceptable, inadmissible

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irrecevable

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72
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unsteady, wobbly, faltering

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chancelant

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73
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impious/godless person

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un/une impie

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a millenium

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un millénaire

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to cushion, absorb, muffle, deaden

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amortir

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76
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decay, decrepitude

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une décrépitude

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selling (adj), willing to sell

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vendeur

78
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to bury

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ensevelir

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to transfer, to move (admin)

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muter

80
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secondary, subordinate, junior

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subalterne

81
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to charter (plane/boat)

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affréter

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a bolt (i.e. on a door)

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un verrou

83
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to eye someone up and down/size-up

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toiser

84
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to vein (plants); to rib/to band (printing)

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nervurer

85
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to flatten

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aplatir

86
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to dispossess, to divest

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exproprier

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redeemable

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amortissable, remboursable

88
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to rake

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ratisser

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a contribution

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un apport

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slender

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longiligne

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firm, authoritarian, iron-handed

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à poigne

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face, appearance

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une physionomie

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brand new

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flambant neuf

94
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a simpleton, a halfwit

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un nigaud, une nigaude

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a commuter town

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une cité-dortoir

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to constrict

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brider

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a funny man, a joker

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une boute-en-train

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slanting (eyes)

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bridé

99
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a cable car

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une télécabine

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a flank, a side

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un flanc

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nice and easy, cushy (fam)

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pépère (fam)

102
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home automation

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domotique

103
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a thingamajig

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un bidule

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a shrine

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un autel

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a persimmon

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une plaquemine

106
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(in) limbo

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(dans les) limbes (m.)

107
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to beat someone up, to lay into someone (fam)

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passer qqn à tabac (fam)

108
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a bragger

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un vantard, une vantarde

109
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to defer, to postpone

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différer

110
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depressing

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flippant

111
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junk food

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la malbouffe

112
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to become infatuated with/very keen on

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s’enticher de qqn/qqch

113
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cryptic, enigmatic (lit)

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sibyllin (litt)

114
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a snapshot

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un instantané

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wrathful (lit)

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courroucé (litt)

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tawdry rags (lit)

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des oripeaux (m., litt)

117
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mimicry, mimicking

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le mimétisme

118
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to frown

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froncer les sourcils

119
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to stretch (out)

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s’étirer

120
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a swig, a gulp (fam)

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une lampée (fam)

121
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to be going downhill, to be on a downward slope

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péricliter

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to follow from

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découler de

123
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an eardrum

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un tympan

124
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a wicked stepmother

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une marâtre

125
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always the same story (refrain)

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c’est toujours la même rengaine

126
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to tell off

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houspiller

127
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to summon

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sommer

128
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heinous, villainous (lit)

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scélérat

129
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fisticuffs (v. fam)

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le rififi (t. fam)

130
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a tumbleweed

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un virevoltant

131
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night vision

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la nyctalopie

132
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a warning/challenge (before shooting)

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une sommation

133
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the back (of a chair/sofa)

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un dossier

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a neck (anatomy or clothing)

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une encolure

135
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an idiot, a fool (fam)

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un abruti, une abrutie (fam)

136
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a crackling, a pitter-patter

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un crépitement

137
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brass

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le laiton

138
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roofing

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la toiture

139
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a roofing tile

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une tuile

140
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crap, bull (v fam)

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une foutaise

141
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crestfallen

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déconfit

142
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to tar, to surface with tar

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goudronner

143
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a flatterer/toady (lit.)

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un flagorneur, une flagorneuse (litt)

144
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to win again, to regain, to recover, to go back to

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regagner

145
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a dormitory

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un dortoir

146
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downy

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cotonneux

147
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a switchboard operator

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un/une standardiste

148
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to grumble

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maugréer

149
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frozen stiff (fam)

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frigorifié (fam)

150
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wisteria

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la glycine

151
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to exhaust, to tax, to fatigue

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lasser

152
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grandpa, old-timer

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un pépère

153
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to grumble, to moan (fam)

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râler (fam)

154
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a carabiner

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un mousqueton

155
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a shepherd’s crook

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une houlette (h aspiré)

156
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pandemonium, commotion

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un branle-bas

157
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inclusive (e.g. price, package)

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forfaitaire

158
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a wake (funeral)

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une veillée mortuaire

159
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a seizure, a grip, a grasp

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la mainmise

160
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an outpost

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un avant-poste

161
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to skimp on, to botch

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bâcler

162
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to quarrel with one another

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se quereller

163
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a speed bump

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un dos-d’âne

164
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senile (fam)

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gaga (fam)

165
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underpants (v fam)

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un slibard (t fam)

166
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to get some shut-eye (fam)

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roupiller (fam)

167
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knitwear, mesh

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la maille

168
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road maintenance

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la voirie

169
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to grind

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moudre

170
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a face (fam)

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une tronche (fam)

171
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serrated, notched

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cranté

172
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a scoundrel

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une canaille, une crapule

173
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an ampersand

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une esperluette

174
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a uvula

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une luette, une uvule

175
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osmosis

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une osmose

176
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to dissect

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disséquer

177
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ivy

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le lierre

178
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to plow

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labourer

179
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a drowsiness

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une somnolence

180
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an addiction

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une dépendance

181
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to wean off

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détourner qqn de qqch; faire perdre l’habitude de qqch à qqn

182
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a springboard, a diving board

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un tremplin

183
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a heap, a mound

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une monticule

184
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a dowry

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une dot

185
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thick (re: hair, accent)

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fourni

186
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an appeal (legal)

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un appel, un pourvoi

187
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a garbage dump

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une décharge

188
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a pitfall, a hazard

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une embûche

189
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bittersweet

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aigre-doux

190
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to answer tit-for-tat

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répondre du tac au tac

191
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stupendous, amazing (fam)

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mirobolant (fam)

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