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| méd. pharm. comprimé {m} contre la douleur | pain killer [coll.] [in form of a pill] | |
| hist. mil. relig. bataille {f} du Champ du Sang [1119] [aussi : bataille de l'Ager Sanguinis] | Battle of the Field of Blood [1119] [also: Battle of Ager Sanguinis, Battle of Sarmada, or the Battle of Balat] [Crusader army annihilated by the army of the Artuqid ruler of Aleppo] | |
| hist. mil. Bataille {f} de Bouvines [1214] | Battle of Bouvines [the concluding battle of the Anglo-French War of 1213–1214.A French army under King Philip Augustus defeated an Allied army under Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV] | |
| hist. mil. pol. siège {m} d'Orléans [1428/9] | siege of Orléans [1428/9] [the watershed of the 100 Years' War with a major victory for the French Royal Army with Joan of Arc] | |
| hist. pol. traité {m} de Picquigny [1475] | Treaty of Picquigny [1 year after the Treaty of London, England & France signed a peace treaty (7-year truce) in 1475 which left France to deal alone with the threat from Duke of Burgundy] | |
| décrocher qc. [fam.] [obtenir] | to glom onto sth. [Am.] [coll.] [to get a hold of] | |
| géogr. météo. adret {m} [versant le plus ensoleillé d'une vallée] | sunny side [of a valley] | |
| cuis. aiguillettes {f.pl} [canard, poulet, gibier à plumes] | filet slices [of duck, chicken, feathered game] | |
| arch. relig. calvaire {m} | martyrium [church or shrine built over the tomb of a Christian martyr] | |
| auto aviat. naut. épave {f} [carcasse de navire, avion, auto] | wreck [remains of a ship, plane, car] | |
| nasse {f} [panier conique] | creel [fish trap in the form of a conical basket] | |
| dr. capacité {f} juridique | legal capacity [capacity to be a subject of legal rights and duties] | |
| à grande peine {adv} | painstakingly [build up, gather with a great deal of effort] | |
| pince-sans-rire {m} | [person with a deadpan sense of humour or dry wit] | |
| compter pour du beurre [fam.] | to count for nothing [of a person, to be unappreciated] | |
| comm. ind. annonce {f} d'arrêt de la production | announcement of discontinuation [of a product line] | |
| désordre {m} de sa conduite | her wild behaviour [also: his wild behaviour] | |
| hist. mil. pol. guerre {f} des Deux-Roses | War of the Roses [series of civil wars in England between 1455 and 1487, when the House of Lancaster and the House of York fought for control of the throne of England] | |
| visiter (qn./qc.) | to visit (sb./sth.) [when a person, a visit to a sick person or prisoner by a doctor or priest, not a social visit] | |
| parc {m} [de détente, d'un château] | gardens {pl} [leisure park, grounds of a palace etc.] | |
| cuis. filouterie {f} de restaurant | dine-n-dash [coll.] [Am.] [non-payment of a restaurant bill] | |
| à la dernière mode {adj} | newfangled [pej.] [of a new kind or fashion, needlessly novel] | |
| faire de la retape [fam.] [loc.] [de prostituée] | to streetwalk [coll.] [idiom] [of a prostitute] | |
| durer | to endure [last] | |
| durer | to take [to last] | |
| déconner [fam.] [faire l'idiot] | to mess around [coll.] [play the fool] | |
| hist. pol. François {m} II [1768-1835] [empereur des Romains 1792-1806, François I d'Autriche 1804-1835 ] | Francis II [1768-1835] [the last Holy Roman Emperor 1792-1806 and, as Francis I, the first Emperor of Austria 1804-1835] | |
| géogr. Niémen {m} [fleuve] | River Neman [also: Nemunas, Nioman, or Memel] [river that rises in central Belarus and flows through Lithuania then along the northern border of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia's western exclave] | |
| naut. unit encablure {f} [pige] | cable length [1/10 of a nautical mile, 608 feet, 185.2 metres] | |
| aller aux toilettes | to powder one's nose [coll.] [of a woman, to go to the lavatory] [idiom] | |
| cuis. faire le trou normand | to drink a glass of Calvados between each course of a meal | |
| film F Frisson d'amour | Thrill of a Romance [also: Thrill of a New Romance] [Richard Thorpe] | |
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| prov. Chien qui aboie ne mord pas. | His bite is worse than his bark. | |
| glander [fam.] [péj.] [s'occuper futilement] | to bum around [vulg.] [pej.] [waste one's time] | |
| glander [fam.] [péj.] [s'occuper futilement] | to fart about [vulg.] [pej.] [waste one's time] | |
| glander [fam.] [péj.] [s'occuper futilement] | to piss around [vulg.] [pej.] [waste one's time] | |
| glander [fam.] [péj.] [s'occuper futilement] | to screw around [vulg.] [pej.] [waste one's time] | |
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| glander [fam.] [péj.] [s'occuper futilement] | to do sod all [vulg.] [pej.] [waste one's time] | |
| hist. pol. ligue {f} du Bien public [1465] | League of the Public Weal [an alliance of feudal nobles organized in 1465 in defiance of the centralized authority of King Louis XI of France] | |
| sport taper dans le ballon | to have a kick-about [coll.] [play football casually] | |
| se prolonger | to endure [last] | |
| arts hist. mil. monument {m} de la Bataille des Nations | Monument to the Battle of the Nations [commemorates the defeat of Napoleon's French army at Leipzig in 1813] | |
| dr. testament {m} authentique | legally certified will [will drawn up by a lawyer in the presence of witnesses] | |
| Bon à tout, propre à rien. [loc.] | Jack of all trades (and master of none). [idiom] | |