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1
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Bloquer la circulation

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To snarl the traffic

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Le mécontentement gronde dans le pays

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The country is seething with unrest

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Couver, gronder (violence)

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To seeth

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Mijoter

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To simmer

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Prendre qqun au dépourvu

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To caught sb unprepared

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Faire la sourde oreille à

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To turn a deaf ear to sb

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Fermer les yeux sur qqc

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To turn a blind eye on smg

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Un détournement de fonds

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Embezzlement

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Un escroc

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An embezzler, a crook, a swindler

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La perspicacité

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Insight

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Tendre l’oreille

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To prick up

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12
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Supprimer, abolir

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To scrap

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13
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Entendre sans le vouloir

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To overhear

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Tendre l’oreille/écouter aux portes

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To eavesdrop

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15
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Des négociateurs acharnés

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Though negotiators

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Préparer le chemin

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To pave the way for

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Un accord alibi

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A token agreement

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18
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Mettre en place

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To implement

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19
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Quand on pense à la taille de

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Given the size of

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20
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Pour le dire directement

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To put in bluntly

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21
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Ils persistent et signent

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They are back with more of the same

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22
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Des marteaux

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Hammers

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23
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Des pelles

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Shovels, spades

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24
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Appelons un chat un chat

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Let’s call a spade a spade

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25
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Des haches

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Axes

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26
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Des boulons

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Bolts

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27
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Un tronc d’arbre

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A tree trunk

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A trunk

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Un coffre de voiture, une trompe d’éléphant, une malle, un tronc, un boxer (au pluriel)

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Un clôture, une barrière

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A fence

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30
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Lancer violemment

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To hurl smg at, to fling

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31
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Les casseurs

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Rioting demonstrators, hooligans, thugs

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32
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Un interlocuteur

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A discussion partner

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33
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Être dépassé par les événements

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To be overtaken by events

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34
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C’est du jamais vu

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This is unheard-of

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35
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Piller

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To loot, to plunder

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36
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Renverser

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To overturn

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37
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Des passants

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Passers-by, onlookers

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38
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L’arc de triomphe a été souillé

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The Arc de Triomphe was soiled/vandalized

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39
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A bas l’état

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Down with the state

40
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Vive le vandalisme

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Long live vandalism

41
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Avoir du mal à joindre les 2 bouts

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To find it hard to make ends meet

42
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Une frange (politique)

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A fringe

43
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Chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin

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Looking for a needle in a haystack

44
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Des problèmes de longue date

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Long-standing problems

45
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Changer de forme

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To have shape-shifted

46
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Être assis face à face

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To be sitting across from each other

47
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Être face à un problème

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To be faced with a pb

48
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Le désarroi

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Dismay, distress, disarray,

49
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Être dans un désarroi profond

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To be utterly dismayed, to be in utter confusion

50
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La pierre tombale

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The tombstone

51
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La tombe

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The grave

52
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Fouiller qqc (une malle)

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To rummage through

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Fouiller (fureter les affaires de qqun d’autres)

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To snoop

54
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Au bord des larmes

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On the verge of

55
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Hurler

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To yell

56
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Le courroux

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Wrath

57
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Avaler goulûment/ gober

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To gobble up

58
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Vous avez une piste ?

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Do you have a lead ?

59
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Une société a 2 vitesses

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A two-tier society

60
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Un pneu

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A tyre

61
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Des contrôles raconien

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Stringent controls

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Sérieux, consciencieux

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Thorough

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Une enquête

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Investigation, inquiry, inquest

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Soyez en certain

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You may rest assured

65
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Les victimes/sinistrés (d’un accident)

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The casualties

66
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Un nain

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A dwarf, a midget

67
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Rondouillard

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Portly, shabby, tubby

68
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Miner qqun

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To undermine sb

69
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Être déstabilisé

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To be unsettled

70
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Attraper un criminel (par le collet)

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To collar a criminal

71
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Faire un trou, percer

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To drill, to bore into

72
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Un marteau piqueur

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A pneumatic drill

73
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Errer, vagabonder

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To wander around/about

74
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Le regard

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The gaze

75
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Regarder méchamment

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To glare at

76
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Regarder loguement

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To gaze at

77
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Regarder rapidement

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To glance at

78
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Roder ac une mauvaise intention

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To roam

79
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Un endroit perdu

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A godforsaken place

80
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Attirer qqun qqpart (malhonnêtement)

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To lure

81
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Mal intentionné

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Ill-intentioned

82
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Éloigne, lointain

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Far-off, far-away, remote

83
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Une connaissance

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An acquaintance

84
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Interpeler

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To arrest for questioning

85
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Voir souvent

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To be acquainted with

86
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Faire un interrogatoire à qqun (police)

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To cross examine sb

87
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A regard farouche/féroce

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A fierce glare

88
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Blesser qqun

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To hurt sb’s feelings

89
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Un Timide

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A coy

90
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Un grenier

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An attic

91
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Un quartier mal famé

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A red-light district

92
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Diriger une entreprise

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To run a company

93
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Un casier judiciaire vierge

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A clean police record, a clean criminal record

94
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Un casier (intégrale)

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A locker

95
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Avoir des charges contre qqun

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To indict sb with, to have a leverage on sb

96
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Lâcher qqc d’un ton sec

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To snap

97
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Perdre+Prouver (orth)

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To lose, to prove (1 seul o)

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