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couille dans le pâté (testicle in the pâté) nom {f} | fly in the ointment(something which ruins or spoils everything else, or makes it less pleasant) |
couille dans le potage (testicle in the soup) [both vulgar] nom {f} | fly in the ointment(something which ruins or spoils everything else, or makes it less pleasant) |
couper/découper en julienne/bâtonnets/allumettes verbe | french(prepare food by cutting it into strips) |
court sur pattes adjectif | short-legged◼◼◼(having short legs) |
criblé de dettes adjectif {m} | debt-ridden◼◼◼(dominated by debt) |
criblé de dettes adjectif | debt-laden◼◼◻(having debt) |
Croates nom {Pl} | Croatian◼◼◼(person of Croatia) |
Ctésiphon nom {f} | Ctesiphon◼◼◼(ancient ruined city) |
dans tes rêves phrase | in your dreams◼◼◼phrase |
dans toutes les directions adverbe | abroad◼◼◼(at large; widely; broadly; over a wide space) |
dantesque adjectif | Dantesque◼◼◼(of or pertaining to Dante or his style, with elevated tone and somber focus) |
de justesse nom | whisker [whiskers]◼◼◼((colloquial) very small distance between two things) |
de justesse preposition | by the skin of one's teeth(barely, closely) |
de tous côtés adverbe | abroad◼◼◼(at large; widely; broadly; over a wide space) |
de toutes parts adverbe | throughout◼◼◼(everywhere) |
de toutes ses forces preposition | with all one's mightpreposition |
délicatesse nom {f} | delicacy [delicacies]◼◼◼(quality of being delicate) delicateness◼◻◻(the characteristic of being delicate) |
délicatesse nom | nicety [niceties]◼◻◻(small detail that is nice or polite but not necessary) |
demi-mortes adjectif {f-Pl} | halfdead(halfway dead; partially alive) |
dentés adjectif {m-Pl} | toothed◼◼◼(having projections resembling teeth) |
des têtes vont tomber phrase | heads will roll◼◼◼(some people will be fired for incompetence) |
détestable adjectif | despicable◼◼◼(deserving to be despised) accursed◼◻◻(hateful) |
détestation nom {f} | detestation◼◼◼(hate coupled with disgust) |
détesté adjectif | hated◼◼◼(disliked, odious) |
détester verbe | hate [hated, hating, hates]◼◼◼(to dislike intensely) detest [detested, detesting, detests]◼◼◻(to dislike intensely) loathe [loathed, loathing, loathes]◼◼◻(to detest, hate, revile) |
dettes commerciales nom {f pl} | accounts payable [accounts payable](total monetary amount owed by a customer to suppliers of its goods and services) |
deux têtes valent mieux qu'une phrase | two heads are better than one◼◼◼(joint thinking pays) |
difficultés nom {f pl} | hardship [hardships]◼◼◼(difficulty or trouble) |
dire ses quatre vérités verbe | give someone a piece of one's mind(to rebuke someone) |
distribution de postes à des membres du parti nom | spoils [spoils](public offices and their benefits regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction.) |
Dolomites nom propre {f-Pl} | Dolomites◼◼◼(section of the Alps) |
don-quichottesque adjectif | Don Quixotesque(Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Don Quixote.) |
Douze Grandes Fêtes nom propre {f-Pl} | Great Feasts◼◼◼(twelve feasts of the Eastern Orthodox Church) |
duettistes nom | double act(comic pairing) |
éléphantesque adjectif | elephantine◼◼◼(very large) |
éléphantesque nom {m} nom {f} | elephant [elephants]◼◼◻(anything huge and ponderous) |