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il mangera un jour. Apprends-lui à pêcher phrase | give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime◼◼◼(more worthwhile to teach someone than do it for them) |
indemnité journalière nom {f} | sick pay◼◼◼(money paid to an employee during his or her sick leave) |
inscrire un évènement dans un journal verbe | log [logged, logging, logs](make an entry in a log) |
kiosque à journaux nom {m} | newsstand [newsstands]◼◼◼(open stall where newspapers and magazines are on sale) newsagent [newsagents]◼◻◻(retail business) |
l'autre jour adverbe | the other day◼◼◼(lately) |
l'herbe est toujours plus verte ailleurs phrase | the grass is always greener on the other side(others' circumstances seem more desirable than one's own but in reality often are not.) |
l'herbe est toujours plus verte dans le pré du voisin phrase | the grass is always greener on the other side(others' circumstances seem more desirable than one's own but in reality often are not.) |
la raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure phrase | might makes right◼◼◼(morality cannot question the powerful) |
la vérité finit toujours par triompher phrase | a lie has no legs(you can't get away with a lie) |
la vie n'est pas toujours une partie de plaisir phrase | life is not all beer and skittles(proverb) |
le client a toujours raison phrase | the customer is always right◼◼◼(proverb) |
le jour et la nuit nom | chalk and cheese◼◼◼(things that are very different) |
le jour précédent adverbe | the day before◼◼◼(on the preceding day) |
le jour suivant adverbe | the next day◼◼◼adverb |
les cordonniers sont toujours les plus mal chaussés (the shoemakers always wear the worst shoes) phrase | the shoemaker's children go barefoot(one often neglects those closest to oneself) |
livreur de journaux nom {m} | paperboy◼◼◼(male who delivers newspapers) |
lumière du jour nom {f} | daylight◼◼◼(light from the Sun) |
marchand de journaux nom {m} | newsagent [newsagents]◼◼◼(person) |
même une pendule cassée donne l'heure deux fois par jour phrase | a stopped clock is right twice a day(something or someone unreliable is right sometimes, even by accident) |
menu du jour nom {m} | set menu◼◼◼noun |
mettre à jour verbe | update [updated, updating, updates]◼◼◼(to make something up to date) |
mettre au grand jour verbe | bring to light(expose) |
mettre au jour verbe | bring to light◼◼◼(expose) blow the whistle◼◻◻(disclose information to the public) |
mise à jour nom {f} | update [updates]◼◼◼(action of advising someone so that they are up to date) update [updates]◼◼◼(action of making something up to date) |
on en apprend tous les jours phrase | you learn something new every day◼◼◼(Uttered after acquiring new knowledge) |
ordre du jour nom {m} | order of the day◼◼◼(business to be done by a body on a particular day, see also: agenda) |
paon du jour nom {m} | European peacock(colorful butterfly) |
papier journal nom {m} | newsprint◼◼◼(inexpensive paper used in newspapers) newspaper [newspapers]◼◼◻(paper on which newspapers are printed) |
Paris ne s'est pas fait en un jour phrase | Rome wasn't built in a day◼◼◼(it takes a long time to create something complicated or impressive) |
percer à jour verbe | see through◼◼◼(to recognize someone's true motives) |
permis de séjour nom {m} | residence permit◼◼◼(right to legally reside in a country) |
photojournalisme nom {m} | photojournalism◼◼◼(journalism via photographs or images) |
plat du jour nom {m} | plat du jour◼◼◼noun |
point du jour nom {m} | daybreak◼◼◼(dawn) |
poste de jour nom {m} | day shift [day shifts]◼◼◼(A scheduled work during daylight hours) |
pour toujours adverbe | forever◼◼◼(for all time, for all eternity; for an infinite amount of time) |