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Volume 3 Flashcards

1
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hasarder

se hasarder à faire

A

to risk

to venture to do

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prétendument

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supposedly

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une emprise

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hold, influence

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rechigner à qqc/qqn

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to balk at someone/something

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une escale

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stop over

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enflammé (adj)

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aflame

passionate

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collant (adj)

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sticky
skin tight
clinging (colloquial)

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ciller

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to blink, flicker

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minauder

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to simper

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fouiner

fouiner dans

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to nose about

to rummage through

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envahissant

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invasive

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volage (adj)

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fickle

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ringard (adj)

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old fashioned, out of date

tasteless

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les déboires (mp)

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disappointments

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le célibat

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state of being single

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16
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les réacteurs

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jet engines

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agripper

s’agripper à

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to grap, grasp firmly

to cling to

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le strapontin

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jump seat (that stewardess uses during take-off and landings)

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la hôstesse de l’aire

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stewardess

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être happé par

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to be caught up in

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luisant (adj)

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gleaming, shiny

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suinter

suinter de

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to ooze

to ooze from
to seep through

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la superbe

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magnificence (as an especially attractive person)

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un gourbi

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slum

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trier

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to select, sort

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brinquebaler

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to rattle about
to jolt along (auto)
to be shaken (person

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dégourdir

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bring circulation back to

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afin de

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so as to

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un effluve

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outflow

exhalation (especially one with an unpleasant smell)

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la mine

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look

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vaquer

vaquer à ses occupations
vaquer à d’autres occupations

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to vacation, be in recess

to tend to one’s business
to tend to other business

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32
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la crinière

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mane (of a horse)

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33
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un trousseau de clés

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a bunch of keys

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34
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la carlingue

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cockpit (airplane)

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35
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de temps à l’autre

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from time to time

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36
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le physique de l’emploi

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look the part

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37
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contourner

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bypass, skirt around

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38
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engluer

s’engluer dans qqc

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to make sticky

to become bogged down in something

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39
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délaisser

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to abandon
forsake
neglect

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40
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la rambarde

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guard rail

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41
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une poutre

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beam

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42
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afficher

A

to put up, display

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43
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rendre l’âme (idiom)

rendre l’esprit

A

to pass away

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bridé (adj)

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slit

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45
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brider

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to control, curb

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46
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imparable (adj)

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unstoppable

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47
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raviser

se raviser

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to change one’s mind

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48
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râler (informal)

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moan, groan

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49
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maudire

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to curse, damn

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50
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minable (adj)

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shabby, pathetic

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51
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ensevelir

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to enshroud

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52
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élimé (adj)

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shabby, threadbare

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53
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congédier

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to dismiss

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54
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filasse (adj)

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white blond (hair)

55
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systématiquement

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systematically

56
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médicalisé (adj)

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medicalized, to be identified as having a medical condition requiring treatment.

57
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médicaliser

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to identify someone as having a condition needing treatment

58
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une convenance

A

convenience, appropriateness

59
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déballer

A

to unpack, open, display

60
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végéter

A

to vegetate, stagnate

61
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un taudis

A

slum, hovel, pigsty

62
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stooler qqn (Quebec)

A

to rat someone out

63
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un trocard (slang)

trocard (adj)

A

trash (person)

trashy

64
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grabataire (adj)

A

bedridden

65
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un grain de beauté

A

beauty spot, mole

66
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cuilles (vulgar slang)

A

balls

67
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enchevêtrer

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to tangle, cause to become interwined in a confused mess

68
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enchevêtré (adj)

A

tangled, in a confused mess

69
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écarteler

A

to tear apart, quarter

70
Q

écartelé

A

quartered

torn apart

71
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au fil de

au fil des ans
au fil de l’enquête
aller au fil de l’eau
au fil d’aiguille = au fur à mesure

A

over the course of

through the years
over the course of the inquiry
to go with the flow
bit by bit

72
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enfouir

A

to bury

73
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écraser

s’écraser

A

to crush (or otherwise demolish)

to crash

74
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le perron

A

flight of steps, porch

75
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la grandiloquence

A

pomposity

76
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frémir

A

to go crazy, tremble

77
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déshabiller

A

to undress

78
Q

gâcher

A

to wrong

spoil

79
Q

le veilleur de nuit

A

night watchman

80
Q

pareillement

A

similarly

81
Q

une rame

A

a train

an oar

82
Q

la correspondance

vols en correspondance

A

correspondence
connection (travel)

connecting flights

83
Q

une sangle

les sangles

A

strap

webbing

84
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se briser contra

A

broke against

85
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le gros lot

A

jackpot

86
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vriller

descendre en vrille

A

to tailspin

to go into a spiral dive

87
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un pantin

A

a puppet, dummy

88
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désarticuler

A

to dislocate (someone’s arm for example)

89
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désarticulé

A

dislocated

90
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périr

A

to perish

91
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amorcer

A

to initiate

to begin

92
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un macarme

A

din, racket

93
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un préposé

A

employee

94
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passer en revue

A

to review

95
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un soubresaut

les derniers soubresauts

A

a start, jolt

death throws

96
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une tige

A

stem

97
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les abords (mp)

aux abords de qqc/qqp

A

purlieu, nearby areas

in the area of someone/someplace

98
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il n’y est pas allé de main morte! (idiom)

Elle n’y est pas allée de main morte!

A

He didn’t pull his punches!

She didn’t pull her punches!

99
Q

un ceinturon

A

belt

100
Q

un feuillet

A

page

101
Q

le mépris de

A

contempt for

102
Q

la dérobade

A

evasion, avoidance

103
Q

le gîte et le couvert

A

room and board

104
Q

un sidéen

A

AIDS sufferer

105
Q

la couleur préférée de Zoé

A

the colour prefered by Zoé

106
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jauger

A

to guage, measure up

107
Q

détaler

A

to run off

108
Q

courir comme un dératé (idiom)

A

to run like crazy

109
Q

la berge

A

bank, embankment

110
Q

dégouliner

A

to trickle

111
Q

la buée

A

steam, mist

112
Q

ratatiner

A

to shrivel

113
Q

le siphon

A

drain (of a tub)

114
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sous tous les rapports

Le gens qui parassaient bien sous tous les rapports…

A

by all accounts

People who seem fine by all accounts…

115
Q

les faïences (f?)

A

earthenwares (fixtures in a hotel room?)

116
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une effigie

à l’effigie de l’hôtel

A

an effigy
logo

with the logo of the hotel

117
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entrouvrir

A

to open half way

118
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un larcin

A

petty theft

119
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une mensuration

A

measurement

120
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la précarité

la précarité de l’emploi

A

precariousness

job insecurity

121
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démancher

A

to remove the handle

le manche = sleeve, handle. In the present case, the wand of a vacuum cleaner.

122
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le mutisme

A

mutism, inability to speak

123
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une vessie

A

bladder

124
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tenailler

A

to torment, torture

125
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dérober

se dérober sous

A

to steal, hide

to give way

126
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dévaler

A

hurtle, glide

127
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la mélasse

A

molasses

muck (colloquial)

128
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napper

A

cover/coat with a thin layer

129
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soucieux

A

concerned

130
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cuver

cuver son vin (idiom)

A

to ferment

sleep it off

131
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une cuve

A

a tank (often for fermenting)

132
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une brouette

A

wheelbarrow

133
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ratisser

ratisser large (idiom)

A

rake over

cast one’s net wide

134
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un boulet

A

ball and chain, millstone, a drag on one’s being

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