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150 Cards in this Set
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pédoque |
homosexual (rare, and used offensively, I think) |
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les Iles Vierges |
the Virgin Islands |
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les Bahamas |
Bahamas |
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postiche |
false (particular hair) |
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le tentateur |
tempter |
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la tentatrice |
temptress |
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tentateur |
seductively |
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un fumier |
bastard (pej.) |
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la culotte |
knickers; knickerbockers |
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amerrir |
to land in the sea, splash down |
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il n'y a pas de quoi pavoiser!
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it's nothing to crow about!
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pavoiser |
to crow about (se vanter, se targuer de) |
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la fugue |
running away |
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laisser planer l'incertitude
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to allow uncertainty to persist |
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un brimborion |
a trinket (a bit old-fashioned) |
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un mugissement |
a mooing, lowing; roaring, thundering |
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une meule de foin |
haystack |
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délirer |
to be delirious; to be raving |
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mais tu délires |
you're out of your mind! |
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se replier sur |
to hunker down in (se vautrer) |
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pas de quoi se vanter/pavaner |
nothing to brag about |
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Faites au mieux |
Do your best |
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Qu'il crève! |
Let him rot! |
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crever les yeux |
stand out a mile |
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crever |
To burst, puncture; kill |
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un nécessaire de/à couture
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a sewing kit |
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un nécessaire à souder |
a soldering kit |
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gouailleuse |
cheeky |
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se targuer de |
to boast about |
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un serpent à sonnette |
a rattlesnake |
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une rengaine |
an old tune (pej.) |
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une scie |
a catch-tune (inf.) |
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une scie nassilarde |
a nasal whine/catch-tune. |
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un coup de sang |
fit of rage/anger |
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le sucre d'orge |
barley sugar |
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avarié |
rotten (fruit) |
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avarié |
damaged (ship) |
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quitte |
quits |
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(dans) le siècle |
(in) the world (spiritual) |
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claquemuré |
shut up, locked up |
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se claquemurer derrière |
to shut oneself up (behind) (boucler) |
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une irisation |
irridescence |
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une goélette |
a schooner |
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riper |
to slip (e.g. one moorings) |
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les amarres |
moorings |
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riper sur ses amarres |
to slip one's moorings |
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C'est du bidon |
It's a load of rubbish |
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Ce n'était pas du bidon |
It was not a load of rubbish |
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regorger de |
to overflow with, burst with |
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un feutre |
felt hat |
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à tire-d'aile |
swiftly (not hate) |
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une guimauve |
a marshmallow |
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guimauve |
sickly sentimental |
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le carrosse |
(horse-drawn) coach |
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gober |
to swallow |
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une cacahuète |
a peanut |
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une jouvencelle |
damsel, maiden |
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cisailler |
to cut through, shear |
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un zing |
punch, zing |
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refiler qqch à qqn |
to give someone something (rendre) |
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creusois |
from la Creuse |
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se desceller |
to work oneself free, detach oneself |
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ça te fait rien toi, toi?
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that doesn't do anything to you, you? |
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le ressac |
backwash, surf |
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une boule de loto |
a lottery ball |
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réfréner |
to curb, check (not trevaner) |
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trisomique |
Mongol, Down's Syndrome |
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Il est trisomique.
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He has Down's Syndrome.
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soutirer qch à qn
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to squeeze sth out of sb, to get sth out of sb
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cet écueil |
this pitfall |
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une grappe |
cluster, bunch (people, grapes) |
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à brûle-pourpoint |
out of the blue, from nowhere (not tout a trac/illico) |
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rester coi |
to remain quiet |
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en rester coi |
to be speechless |
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écervelé
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brainless, empty-headed |
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rogner sur les coûts
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cut corners v exp
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la solde |
pay |
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la morsure |
bite; teeth marks |
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faire craquer quelqu'un |
to break someone (e.g. a prisoner) |
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une grognasse |
bitch (pej.) |
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qu'à cela ne tienne |
It doesn't matter, never mind, don't worry about it (not ca ne fait rien) |
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la combine |
scheme, trick |
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un béguin |
a crush, thing (also bonnet - a child's or from the Middle Ages) |
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le rejeton |
offspring; offshoot (plant) |
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le bégaiement |
the stuttering, stammering |
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calé |
clever, good at something |
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le troquet |
bar, small café |
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un turbin |
a job (boulot) |
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aller au turbin |
to get back to the grindstone |
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ciller |
blink; bat an eyelid |
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ne devait pas ciller |
should not bat an eyelid |
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le tympan |
the tympanum (decorated part above the lintel and the arch of an entrance) |
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Une aire de jeu |
Playground, playing area |
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décaler un rendez-vous |
to shift/move a meeting/appointment |
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un ou une fouille-merde |
sh*t-stirrer, mudraker |
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décolérer |
to calm down |
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ménager |
domestic (a) |
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un cours ménager |
a course in domesticity |
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usuel |
common, everyday |
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inusuel |
uncommon, rare (soutenu) |
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un yacht |
yacht |
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soudoyer |
to bribe |
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avoir la gaule |
to have a hard-on |
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accroche-toi |
hang on; hold in there. |
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le suaire |
shroud |
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la soutane |
cassock |
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les commérages |
gossip (bavardage, cancan) |
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une bartavelle |
rock partridge |
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une épingle à nourrice |
a safety-pin |
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une navaja |
a Spanish fighting or general-purpose folding knife |
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torpiller qqch |
to torpedo/spear something |
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chantonner |
to hum |
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demander grâce |
to beg for mercy |
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Tu me désoles |
you're cutting me out/distressing, upsetting me |
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désoler |
to upset, distress |
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par moment |
at the moment (also sometimes) (en ce moment) |
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les tracasseries |
hassles |
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la berline |
saloon, sedan |
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un vaisseau fantôme |
a phantom vessel |
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la corne de brume |
foghorn |
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la colombe |
dove |
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caqueter |
to prattle (pej); to cackle (a hen) |
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avoir les nerfs en pelote |
to be a bundle of nerves |
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le bouclier |
shield |
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un matou |
a tomcat |
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être mou comme une chiffe
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to be limp as a ragdoll |
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une chiffe |
a rag |
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un rabbin |
a rabbi |
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tinter |
to ring, jingle |
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un filet |
a trickle (water, blood) |
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un faucheur |
a mower, reaper; hitman, killer |
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la chaussée |
pavement |
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un serre-tête |
a headband |
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asticoter |
to needle, get at, pester |
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feinter |
to trick, feint |
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un liftier |
a lift operator |
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faire la cour à qqn |
to woo, court someone |
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la daurade |
sea bream |
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l'enfouir dans ses hardes |
to bury it in his rags |
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meugler |
to moo, low |
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jeter sa gourme |
to sow one's oats |
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amadouer |
to coax, wheedle |
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caduc |
null-and-void; deciduous |
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un entrelacs |
knotwork, interlacing |
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le deux-tons |
siren, two-tone siren |
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un flottement |
wavering, hesitation |
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dodeliner de la tête |
to nod one's head gently |
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tergiverser |
to shilly-shally |
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un rabatteur |
someone who ushers people to a restaurant etc. |
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se racler la gorge |
to clear one's throat |
