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| se frayer un passage à la hache à travers qc. [sous-bois] | to chop one's way through sth. | |
| se laver le bout du nez [loc.] | to give oneself a lick and a promise [coll.] [idiom] [quick wash] | |
| occup. aboyeuse {f} [fam.] [personne] | barker [female] [person who stands at a show entrance and solicits customers with a loud sales spiel] | |
| s'offrir à qn. [confier à qn.] | to open one's heart to sb. [idiom] | |
| acheter chat en poche [fig.] [fam.] | to buy a pig in a poke [fig.] [coll.] | |
| avoir une sacrée patience [fam.] | to have a hell of a lot of patience [coll.] | |
| appeler les choses par leur nom [fig.] | to call a spade a spade [fig.] [coll.] | |
| outil. tech. décaper une surface au chalumeau | to burn the paint off a surface with a blowtorch | |
| adm. être un rouage parmi d'autres [fig.] | to be a cog in a machine [fig.] | |
| cuis. retirer un gâteau d'un moule | to turn a cake out of a pan [Am.] | |
| cuis. retirer un gâteau d'un moule | to turn a cake out of a tin [Br.] | |
| méd. succomber [à ses blessures, à sa maladie, etc.] | to die [of an illness, etc.] | |
| frémissement {m} [dû à la joie, la colère, à l'impatience, au plaisir] | quiver | |
| relig. sādhu {m} [Inde qui a renoncé à la société] [aussi : Sadhou] | Sadhu [also: Saddhu] | |
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| dépôt {m} légal | formal deposit [of a copy of a book etc. with an institution] | |
| pol. sherpa {m} (du dirigeant) [fig.] [fam.] | sherpa [civil servant accompanying a minister to a summit meeting] | |
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| fin. imputer qc. [par ex. une dépense à un budget] | to charge sth. [esp. allocate to a budget] | |
| traverser qc. [région] | to go through sth. [e.g. a river or road through a region] | |
| faire une montagne d'une taupinière [loc.] | to make a mountain out of a molehill [idiom] | |
| Ça c'est une autre paire de manches. [loc.] | That's a horse of a different colour. [Br.] [idiom] | |
| être comme un chien dans un jeu de quilles [loc.] | to be like a bull in a china shop [idiom] | |
| être pris entre l'enclume et le marteau [loc.] | to be caught between a rock and a hard place [idiom] | |
| cuis. géogr. boulets {m.pl} à la liégeoise [aussi : boulets sauce lapin, boulets (sauce) chasseur, ou Boulets] | boulets à la liégeoise [Belgian traditional speciality made from balls of mixed minced pork and beef in a sweet-sour sauce] | |
| réfractaire {m} [à l'armée, au vaccin, au progrès] | refusenik [coll.] [a person who refuses or declines something] | |
| avoir une case en moins [fig.] [fam.] [loc.] | to be a few spokes shy of a wheel [Br.] [coll.] [rare] [idiom] | |
| utiliser un camion-bélier pour qc. [cambriolage, attaque] | to use a truck as a battering ram for sth. [break-in, attack] | |
| mus. relig. antienne {f} | antiphon [a short chant in Christian ritual, sung as a refrain, where the texts are the Psalms] | |
| annexer qc. à qc. | to enclose sth. with sth. [place sth. in an envelope together with a letter] | |
| édition reporter un paragraphe en début d'un texte | to move a paragraph to the beginning of a text | |
| arch. traboules {f.pl} [passages piétons à travers des cours d'immeuble qui permettent de se rendre d'une rue à une autre dans certaines villes françaises. Les plus connues sont à Lyon] | passageway [between houses. Regional, in certain French cities and towns such as Lyon, Mâcon and Grenoble] | |
| arch. géogr. hist. tour {f} d'Hercule | Tower of Hercules [oldest extant lighthouse known, with an ancient Roman origin, on a peninsula near A Coruña, Galicia, Spain] | |
| cuis. œnol. sabrage {m} | sabrage [opening a champagne bottle with a sabre] | |
| revisiter qc. [fig.] | to put a new spin on sth. [idiom] [interpret sth. in a new way, esp. to make it seem favorable] | |
| armes coucher en joue qn./qc. [viser pour tirer] | to take a bead on sb./sth. [aim a gun at sb./sth.] [Am.] | |