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| écon. débâcle {f} [ruine] | crash [sudden failure or value loss of a market or a business, e.g. a bank] | |
| presser le pas | to step on it [coll.] [idiom] [increase the effort or tempo of some activity] | |
| écon. inform. économie {f} du partage | (the) sharing economy [freelance economic activity, e.g. Uber, Lyft] | |
| tech. jacquemart {m} | bell-striker [animated, mechanised figure of a person which strikes the hours on a bell with a hammer. Usually part of clocks or clocktowers] | |
| Le fric rentre à foison. [fam.] [Les affaires marchent bien.] | The money's rolling in. [Business is thriving] [idiom] | |
| hist. pol. Bulle {f} d'or (de 1356) [aussi : bulle d'or de Nuremberg ou bulle d'or de Metz] | Golden Bull of 1356 [a decree which fixed, for a period of more than four hundred years, important aspects of the constitutional structure of the Holy Roman Empire] | |
| sport dernière ligne {f} droite | home straight [Br.] [also fig.: last part of an activity or campaign] | |
| péricliter | to collapse [of a business, economy] | |
| comm. par souci de conciliation {adv} | as a gesture of goodwill [from a business or company] | |
| panonceau {m} [de profession] | plaque [of a business etc.] | |
| ind. antenne {f} [branche d'une entreprise] | branch [of a business] | |
| hist. pol. Saint Louis {m} [Louis IX le Prudhomme] [1214-1270] | Louis IX [1214-1270] [also known as Saint Louis or Louis the Saint] [King of France 1226-1270 during a medieval golden age in which France reached an economic and political peak] | |
| arch. arts relig. retable {m} | altarpiece [structure placed on or immediately behind and above the altar or communion table of a church] | |
| arch. arts relig. retable {m} | reredos [structure placed on or immediately behind and above the altar or communion table of a church] | |
| arch. arts relig. retable {m} | retable [structure placed on or immediately behind and above the altar or communion table of a church] | |
| 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] | |
| être la cinquième roue du carrosse [loc.] | to be the third wheel [coll.] [idiom] [a corruption of fifth wheel] [Am.] | |
| vivre terré chez soi [loc.] | to be living hidden away in one's home [idiom] [of a suspect, fugitive] | |
| être à la dérive [projets] | to go down the toilet [coll.] [idiom] | |
| hist. la Reconquista {f} [la Reconquête] | The Reconquista [period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula between the Battle of Covadonga (718 or 722) and the fall of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada in 1492] | |
| 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] | |
| être aux toilettes | to be in the toilet | |
| comtal {adj} | comital [of or relating to a count] | |
| être pour des prunes [fam.] [en vain] [loc.] | to go down the toilet [coll.] [idiom] | |
| arlequinade {f} | harlequinade [a piece of foolish or ridiculous behaviour] | |
| se désister [concurrent] | to withdraw [of a competition or race] | |
| libr. bibliothèque {f} municipale | public library [of a town or city] | |
| ling. littérat. sci. Académie {f} française | Académie française [A scholarly body composed of 40 life members selected on the basis of their contribution to scholarship or literature] | |
| attentionné {adj} | thoughtful [of a an act or person: nice, attentive] | |
| se désister [concurrent] | to drop out [of a competition or race] | |
| passer une nuit au violon [fam.] [loc.] [garde à vue] | to spend a night in the nick [coll.] [idiom] [in police cells] | |
| pharm. topique {adj} | topical [relating or applied directly to a part of the body] | |
| lieu {m} de séjour | whereabouts [treated as sg. or pl.] [of a person] | |
| arch. mil. contrescarpe {f} | counterscarp [outer side of a ditch or moat used in fortifications] | |
| arch. mil. escarpement {m} | scarp [inner side of a ditch or moat used in fortifications] | |
| comm. parapharmacie {f} [magasin] | [shop or department of a store selling toiletries and vitamins] | |
| agr. bot. hort. régime {m} de bananes | bunch of bananas [a stalk or stem of bananas] | |
| arch. relig. calvaire {m} | martyrium [church or shrine built over the tomb of a Christian martyr] | |
| pince-sans-rire {m} | [person with a deadpan sense of humour or dry wit] | |
| déjouer le système [loc.] | to game the system [idiom] [to manipulate (a situation), typically in a way that is unfair] | |
| à la dernière mode {adj} | newfangled [pej.] [of a new kind or fashion, needlessly novel] | |
| être sur les lieux [loc.] [d'un crime, d'un accident] | to be at the scene [idiom] [of a crime, an accident] | |
| arch. immo. hall {m} [d'une banque, d'un hôtel ou immeuble d'habitation, dans un musée] | hall [entrance area of a flat or public building, large room of museum] | |
| infidèle {adj} [homme] | philandering [of a married or virtually married man] | |
| vêt. ampleur {f} [cape, jupe] | fullness [of a cape, cloak or skirt] | |
| écon. décroissance {f} [théorie remettant en cause la croissance économique] | degrowth [theories of economic growth criticism] | |
| directeur {m} | manager [of business] | |
| cuis. spéculoos {m} [spéculos, spéculaus] | [spiced biscuit in the shape of a human or other figure, eaten at Christmas] | |
| cuis. toad in the hole {m} [saucisses cuites au four dans la pâte à crêpes salée] | toad-in-the-hole [Br.] | |
| faire subir à qn. un interrogatoire à la chansonnette [loc.] | to give sb. the third degree [coll.] [idiom] [subject to a long and menacing interrogation] | |