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 | courir des régates [loc.] | to do the rounds of the regattas [idiom] | |
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| courir les cocktails | to do the rounds of the cocktail parties | |
| faire le tour de qc. [parents] | to do the rounds of sth. | |
| en profiter pour faire qc. [loc.] | to make the most of the opportunity to do sth. [idiom] | |
| mus. Au début du concert, le violoniste donne le ton. | At the beginning of the concert, the violinist sets the tone. | |
| Expérience passe science. [loc.] | The proof of the pudding is in the eating. [idiom] | |
| télécom. au bout du fil {adv} [fam.] | at the other end of the line [on the phone] | |
| tenir le bon bout [loc.] | to see the light at the end of the tunnel [idiom] | |
| la vie du commun des mortels [loc.] | the life of the man in the street [idiom] | |
| pol. Ordre {m} de la Toison d'or | Distinguished Order of the Golden Fleece [Catholic order of chivalry founded by the Duke of Burgundy in 1430. Today, 2 branches of the order exist, namely the Spanish and the Austrian Fleece ] | |
| dr. PoSauv. trafic Les pompiers ont devancé la police sur les lieux de l'accident. | The fire brigade got to the scene of the accident ahead of the police. | |
| film F La Femme du bout du monde [Jean Epstein (1937)] | The Woman from the End of the World | |
| Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. [loc.] | The best is the enemy of the good. [idiom] | |
| pol. C'est l'avenir du pays qui se joue. | The future of the country hangs in the balance. | |
| relig. chute {f} originelle | the Fall of Man [also: the fall of Adam, or simply the Fall] | |
| dr. suivre la lettre, sinon l'esprit, de la loi [loc.] | to respect the letter, if not the spirit, of the law [idiom] | |
| Écrivez l'adresse au recto de l'enveloppe. | Write the address on the front of the envelope. | |
| Au pays des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois. [loc.] | In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king. [idiom] | |
| Au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois. [loc.] | In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. [idiom] | |
| éduc. compléter selon le modèle | to do the exercise following the example | |
| flotter dans l'air [idée, rumeur] | to be going the rounds [idiom] [rumour / rumor] | |
| hist. pol. Banquet {m} du Vœu du faisan [1454] | Banquet of the Oath of the Pheasant [in 1454, the Duke of Burgundy gave this banquet to promote a Crusade (which never took place) against the Turks who had just taken Constantinople] | |
| géogr. hist. mil. siège {m} de Québec [1759] | Battle of the Plains of Abraham [1759] [also: Battle of Quebec] [deciding moment in the conflict between France and Britain over the fate of New France, influencing the later creation of Canada] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de l'Allia [387] | Battle of the Allia [387] [the Senones, a Gallic tribe. routed the Romans and sacked Rome] | |
| hist. mil. pol. Le traité {m} de Tournai [1385] | The Peace of Tournai [1385, between the Burgundian Duke Philip II and the rebellious city of Ghent] | |
| hist. pol. traité {f} de Vereeniging [1902] | Treaty of Vereeniging [1902] [ended the Second Boer War between the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, on the one side, and the United Kingdom on the other] | |
| plus ..., plus ... {conj} | the ... the [e.g. the bigger the better] | |
| Les expositions du Grand Palais sont celles qui m'intéressent le plus. | The exhibitions of the Grand Palais are those that interest me the most. | |
| 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] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de la Neva [1240] | Battle of the Neva [1240] [victory of the Novgorod Republic over the Kingdom of Sweden] | |
| l'essentiel {m} | the crux of the matter | |
| géogr. pol. duché {m} de Bourgogne | Duchy of Burgundy [emerged in the 9th century as one of the successors of the ancient Kingdom of the Burgundians] | |
| 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] | |
| hist. mil. bataille {f} de Patay [1429] | Battle of Patay [in 1429, the culminating engagement of the Loire Campaign of the 100 Years' War, when the French cavalry inflicted a severe defeat on the English.] | |
| géogr. hist. mil. bataille {f} de la Bérézina [1812] [aussi : passage de la Bérézina ou bataille de Borissov] | Battle of (the) Berezina [1812] [also: Battle of Beresina] [final conflict in Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. The Russians inflicted heavy losses on the French but the outcome was not decisive] | |
| relig. se signer | to make the sign of the cross | |
| 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. pol. bataille {f} de la Vorskla [1399] | Battle of the Vorskla River [1399] [victory for the Golden Horde over the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Kingdom of Poland] | |
| en pleine nature {adv} | in the heart of the countryside | |
| en pleine nuit {adv} | in the middle of the night | |
| littérat. F Le Domaine des Dieux | The Mansions of the Gods | |
| relig. le Symbole {m} des apôtres | The Symbol of the Apostles | |
| spontanément {adv} | at the spur of the moment [coll.] [idiom] | |
| spontanément {adv} | on the spur of the moment [coll.] [idiom] | |
| relig. la fraction {f} du pain | the breaking of the bread | |
| en pleine journée {adv} | in the middle of the day | |
| en plein jour {adv} | in the middle of the day | |
| en cours de journée {adv} | during the (course of the) day | |
| au fil des années {adv} | over the course of the years | |
| au fil des années {adv} | during the course of the years | |
