| French | English | |
Partial Matches |
| complément {m} [à la fin d'un livre] | postscript [at the end of a book] | |
| armes douille {f} [arme à feu : étui de balle] | cartridge case [holding a bullet's propellent] | |
| cuis. grivèlerie {f} | doing a runner [Br.] [coll.] [avoiding payment of a bill in a restaurant] | |
| auto transp. aller avec qn. [à bord du même véhicule] | to ride with sb. [in a vehicle] | |
| être incollable [fam.] [imbattable] [qui a réponse à tout] | to be impossible to catch out | |
| dr. faillir à qc. | to breach sth. [a contract, an agreement, a promise, the law, etc.] | |
| redonner dans qc. | to relapse into sth. [return to a less active or a worse state] | |
| renvoyer à qn./qc. [à une note, à un ouvrage] | to refer sb. to sth. | |
| dr. prestation {f} compensatoire [somme versée à un ex-époux] | alimony [Am.] [payment to a former spouse] | |
| Soyez les bienvenues ! | You are welcome! [as a greeting] [said to a group all female] | |
| réclamer à faire qc. à cor et à cri | to clamor to do sth. [Am.] | |
| réclamer à faire qc. à cor et à cri | to clamour to do sth. [Br.] | |
| décrocher qc. | to unhook sth. [e.g., a wagon or take a phone off the hook] | |
| constr. nucl. démanteler qc. [un réacteur, une centrale nucléaire] | to decommission sth. [a reactor, a nuclear power station] | |
| repaître qn./qc. [littéraire] [donner à manger, à becquée / béquée] | to feed sb./sth. [until full] | |
| auto tech. faire démarrer qc. [voiture, moteur] | to fire sth. up [an engine, a chainsaw, a car, etc.] | |
| tech. faire fonctionner qc. [actionner] [manette, levier, etc.] | to actuate sth. [e.g. a switch, a lever] | |
| fluctuation {f} soudaine [sur un graphique] | blip [sharp deviation on a graph from a straight line] | |
| traverser en dehors des passages piétons {noun} | to jaywalk [Am.] [to cross a street in a heedless manner] | |
| cuis. filouterie {f} de restaurant | doing a runner [Br.] [coll.] [avoiding payment of a bill in a restaurant] | |
| démarcher qn. [se présenter] | to call on sb. [pay a visit to sb., esp. in order to ask a favour] | |
| Soyez les bienvenus ! | You are welcome! [as a greeting] [said to a group with at least one male] | |
| cuis. mouillette {f} [à tremper dans un œuf mollet] | soldier [strip of bread for dipping into a soft-boiled egg] | |
| déjouer le système [loc.] | to game the system [idiom] [to manipulate (a situation), typically in a way that is unfair] | |
| écon. pol. événement {m} du cygne noir | black swan event [event that comes as a surprise and has a major effect] | |
| occup. placer un ami dans une entreprise comme qc. | to get a friend a job in a company as sth. | |
| occup. aboyeur {m} [fam.] [personne] | barker [person who stands at a show entrance and solicits customers with a loud sales spiel] | |
| occup. aboyeuse {f} [fam.] [personne] | barker [female] [person who stands at a show entrance and solicits customers with a loud sales spiel] | |
| 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] | |
| dépôt {m} légal | formal deposit [of a copy of a book etc. with an institution] | |
| cuis. obtenir une table | to score a table [Am.] [successfully book a table at a restaurant] | |
| pol. sherpa {m} (du dirigeant) [fig.] [fam.] | sherpa [civil servant accompanying a minister to a summit meeting] | |
| 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] | |
| à compter de {prep} [à partir de telle date] | from [a specific date or period in history] | |
| réfractaire {m} [à l'armée, au vaccin, au progrès] | refusenik [coll.] [a person who refuses or declines something] | |
| mus. relig. antienne {f} | antiphon [a short chant in Christian ritual, sung as a refrain, where the texts are the Psalms] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| cuis. œnol. sabrage {m} | sabrage [opening a champagne bottle with a sabre] | |
| joug {m} [sujétion, pièce de bois servant à l'attelage de bêtes à cornes] | yoke [subjection, wooden frame for joining oxen] | |
| éduc. Plus est en vous. | [A motto used by a number of colleges, including Gordonstoun School (Scotland), roughly translated as 'There is more in you'.] | |
| pol. concert {m} de casseroles [aussi : casserolade] | [banging of pots and pans - a way of protesting which has a long tradition in France] | |
| ling. propositionnel {adj} | clausal [of a part of a sentence] | |
| supplice {m} du collier | necklacing [forcing a rubber tyre drenched with petrol around a victim's chest and arms, and setting it on fire] | |
| Bal {m} du Rat mort [bal masqué et costumé organisé annuellement à des fins philanthropiques à Ostende depuis 1898] | Ball of the Dead Rat [Ostend, Belgium] | |
| cuis. homard {m} Thermidor | lobster Thermidor [lobster meat cooked in a rich wine sauce, stuffed back into a lobster shell, and browned] | |