Franska | Engelska |
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casser le morceau verbe | burst someone's bubble(to disillusion; to disabuse someone of a false notion or rationalization that has grown comfortable) |
champ de force nom {m} | force field [force fields]◼◼◼(science fiction) |
chasse aux sorcières nom {f} | witch-hunt [witch-hunts]◼◼◼(campaign to punish dissident persons) witch-hunt [witch-hunts]◼◼◼(persecution of persons believed to be using magic) |
chef d'orchestre nom {m} | conductor [conductors]◼◼◼(person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble) bandmaster◼◻◻(the conductor of a band) |
clayonnage enduit de torchis nom {m} | wattle and daub(branches and twigs plastered with mud) |
comme un éléphant dans un magasin de porcelaine adjectif | like a bull in a china shop◼◼◼(clumsy, aggressive) |
comme un éléphant dans un magasin de porcelaine adverbe | like a bull in a china shop◼◼◼(clumsily, aggressively) |
conduite forcée nom {f} | penstock [penstocks]◼◼◼(sluice or pipe) |
cours légal et forcé nom {m} | legal tender(currency that cannot be refused as payment to extinguish a debt) |
cracher le morceau verbe | spit it out◼◼◼(to overcome reluctance to say something particular or to speak in general) spill the beans◼◼◻(to reveal a secret; to disclose) |
cryptorchidie nom {f} | cryptorchidism◼◼◼(The failure of one or both testes to descend into the scrotum) |
de force adverbe | forcibly◼◼◼(in a forcible manner) |
de gré ou de force preposition | by hook or by crook◼◼◼(by any means possible) |
de toutes ses forces preposition | with all one's mightpreposition |
démonstration de force nom {f} | show of force◼◼◼noun |
désamorcer verbe | defuse [defused, defusing, defuses]◼◼◼(to make something less dangerous) defuse [defused, defusing, defuses]◼◼◼(to remove the fuse from a bomb) |
désensorceler verbe | unbewitch(to become something different) |
divorce nom {m} | divorce [divorces]◼◼◼(legal dissolution of a marriage) |
divorcé adjectif | divorced◼◼◼(having had one's marriage legally dissolved) divorced◼◼◼(legally dissolved) |
divorcé nom {m} | divorcee [divorcees]◼◼◻(a person divorced) divorcé◼◻◻(a divorced man) |
divorcée nom {f} | divorcee [divorcees]◼◼◼(a person divorced) divorcée◼◼◼(a divorced woman) |
divorcer verbe | divorce [divorced, divorcing, divorces]◼◼◼(to legally dissolve a marriage) part company(To end a relationship) |
d’une force adverbe | as fuck(to a great extent) |
écorce nom {f} | bark [barks]◼◼◼(exterior covering of a tree) crust [crusts]◼◼◻(outermost layer of a planet) |
écorcer verbe | bark [barked, barking, barks]◼◼◼(to strip the bark from, to peel) |
écorceur nom {m} | debarker◼◼◼noun |
écorcher verbe | skin [skinned, skinning, skins]◼◼◼(to injure the skin of) skin [skinned, skinning, skins]◼◼◼(to remove the skin of) flay [flayed, flaying, flays]◼◼◻(to strip skin off) graze [grazed, grazing, grazes]◼◼◻(to cause a slight wound to) mispronounce [mispronounced, mispronouncing, mispronounces]◼◻◻(to pronounce incorrectly) |