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as if nothing had happened (2)

1) comme si de rien n'était
2) comme si rien ne s'était passé

which paved the way for the bankruptcy filing
- the balance sheet (the toll, the result)

ce qui a pavé la voie au dépôt du bilan
- le bilan

(on the phone)
Do you remember me? lit: place me?
- to place, to position

(au téléphone)
Est-ce-que vous me replacez?
- replacer

incriminating
to incriminate, to incriminate oneself

incriminant(e)
incriminer, s'incriminer

to leave no stone unturned
lit: to turn over all the stones
- to turn over (not "renverser")

retourner toutes les pierres
- retourner

I would have sent you packing.

Je vous aurais envoyé promener.

You slaved away the whole week?
alt: wasted
- to slave away (not "trimer")

T'as galéré toute la semaine? (2)
- galérer

a turning point in my life
- the hinge

un moment charnière de ma vie
- la charnière

My teacher was caught masturbating.
- to masturbate (QC) (not "se masturber")

Mon prof s'est fait prendre à se crosser.
- se crosser (QC)

I was cheated by my dealer.
- to cheat (QC) (not "arnaquer" "frauder")

Je me suis fait crosser par mon concessionaire.
- crosser (QC)

His consumption may have induced psychosis.
- to induce

Sa consommation a pu induire une psychose.
- induire

I was this close to telling you that I was going to miss her.
alt: within a hair's breadth

J'étais à un cheveu de te dire que j'allais m'ennuyer d'elle.

the frontal lobes

les lobes frontaux

the fruit store

la fruiterie

the prison register
- the prison, the (metal) nut

le registre d'écrou
- (le) écrou (2)

I can scrape up some money.
lit: scrape my drawer bottoms
- to scrape (2)

Je peux gratter/racler mes fonds de tiroir.
- gratter, racler

Your sleeping pill ended up knocking me out.
- to knock out

Ton somnifère a fini par m'assommer.
- assommer

It was maybe a staged scene.

C'était peut-être une mise en scène.

It's my way of sabotaging the work.
- to sabotage
- the sabotage

C'est ma façon de saboter le travail.
- saboter
- le sabotage

The struggle to free the slaves was long.
- to free, to free oneself

La lutte pour affranchir les esclaves a été longue.
- affranchir, s'affranchir

I finally got what you meant.
- to get it

J'ai enfin pigé ce que tu voulais dire.
- piger

You've drawn difficult cards, Henri.
- to draw (QC) (not "tirer")

Vous avez pigé des cartes dificules, Henri.
- piger (QC)

the nuisance

la nuisance

the straightjacket

le carcan

as I wasn't able to defuse his crisis on the phone
- to defuse
(to start)

comme j'ai pas pu désamorcer sa crise au téléphone
- désamorcer
(amorcer)

Wnen you pay the price, everything can be bought.

Quand tu paies le prix, tout s'achète.

The surgeon sedated his patient.
- to sedate

Le chirugien a endormi son patient.
- endormir

a market without rules
- destitute, helpless

un marché démuni de règles
- démuni(e)

It got caught in the piping.
lit: it had stayed caught
- the piping

C'était resté pris dans la tuyauterie.
- la tuyauterie

kill two birds with one stone

faire d'une pierre deux coups

docile
the docility
docilely

docile
la docilité
avec docilité

readers are not mincing their words
- to chew

les lecteurs ne mâchent pas leurs mots
- mâcher

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