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faire le badaud nom | rubbernecking(slowing down to see the scene of an accident) |
faire le chasse-neige verbe | stem [stemmed, stemming, stems](skiing: to point the skis inward) |
faire le commerce verbe | deal [dealt, dealing, deals]◼◼◼(to trade) |
faire le crawl verbe | crawl [crawled, crawling, crawls](to swim using crawl stroke) |
faire le lien verbe | put two and two together◼◼◼(figure out) |
faire le lit verbe | make the bed◼◼◼(arrange sheets, etc smoothly and neatly) |
faire le malade verbe | malinger [malingered, malingering, malingers]◼◼◼(to feign illness) |
faire le malin verbe | show off◼◼◼(to exhibit, to demonstrate something for the purpose of bragging) |
faire le mariole verbe | yuk it up(clown around) |
faire le ménage verbe | mop up◼◼◼(To fix problems; to correct or repair) |
faire le mort verbe | play dead◼◼◼(to act as though defeated) play possum◼◼◻verb |
faire le mur verbe | play hooky◼◼◼(to stay away from school, work, etc. without suitable permission or excuse) |
faire le pitre verbe | yuk it up(clown around) |
faire le plein verbe | refuel [refuelled, refuelling, refuels]◼◼◼(to refill with fuel) fill up◼◼◼(to fill the tank of a vehicle with fuel) |
faire le poids verbe | hold a candle(be even remotely of the same quality) |
faire le poireau verbe | cool one's heels(to wait impatiently or restlessly) |
faire le premier pas verbe | make the first move◼◼◼verb |
faire le rapprochement verbe | put two and two together◼◼◼(figure out) |
faire le service verbe | wait [waited, waiting, waits]◼◼◼(to serve customers) |
faire le service minimum verbe | phone in(to fulfill a responsibility with a minimum effort) |
faire le signe de la croix verbe | cross [crossed, crossing, crosses]◼◼◼(make the sign of the cross over oneself) |
faire le singe verbe | monkey around◼◼◼(to act foolishly) |
faire le tour verbe | make the rounds◼◼◼(to circulate from one place to another) |
faire le zèbre verbe | yuk it up(clown around) |
faire les cent pas verbe | pace [paced, pacing, paces]◼◼◼(to walk to and fro) |
faire les courses verbe | shop [shopped, shopping, shops]◼◼◼(to visit shops) run errands◼◼◻(to undertake small tasks) |
faire les foins verbe | make hay◼◼◼(to cut grass to turn into hay) |
faire les frais verbe | bear the brunt◼◼◼(to endure the worst part of something) |
faire les gros titres verbe | hit the headlines◼◼◼verb |
faire les magasins verbe | shop [shopped, shopping, shops]◼◼◼(to visit shops) |
faire les yeux doux verbe | make eyes◼◼◼(to flirt by making obvious glances) bat one's eyes(to flutter one's eyelashes, romantically) |
faire lever verbe | leaven [leavened, leavening, leavens]◼◼◼(to cause to rise by fermentation) |
faire l’école buissonnière verbe | bunk [bunked, bunking, bunks](to fail to attend school without permission) wag [wagged, wagging, wags](to not go to school) |
faire l’idiot verbe | mess around(To fiddle idly, to waste time) |
faire machine arrière verbe | backpedal [backpedalled, backpedalling, backpedals]◼◼◼(to distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement) |