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GMO's dominate the fields.
- the GMO

Les OGM dominent les champs.
- (le) organisme génétiquement modifié

an agreement adopted amidst squabbling
- the squabble

un accord adopté dans la bisbille
- la bisbille

the essence of the theory
- the essence (not "(le) essentiel")

le propre de la théorie

You get serious really fast.
- really fast (QC)

Tu fais sérieux sur un moyen temps.
- sur un moyen temps (QC)

the gull, the seagull (not "la mouette")

le goéland

m/The consequences will fade away with time.
lit: time will be right over the consequences

Le temps va avoir raison sur les conséquences.

The horses have blinders on the sides.
- the blinders, the blinkers

Les chevaux ont des oeillères sur les côtés.
- les oeillères (pronounced oyère)

He had volunteered to lend a hand.
- to volunteer

Il s'était porté volontaire pour prêter main-forte.
- se porter volontaire

He will get his knuckles rapped.
Hint: do not translate

Il va se faire taper sur les doigts.

the idiot (l'idiot), the fool (le nigaud)

le toton (QC) (2)

Zelensky: Why his speeches hit the mark (fly) in the West.
You hit the mark!

Zelensky: Pourquoi ses discours font mouche dans l'Occident.
Tu as fait mouche!

a place nestled in the hills
- to nest
- the litter

un endroit niché dans les collines
- nicher
- la nichée

Construction is coming to an end.

La construction tire à sa fin.

I just hung up with Pierre.
- to hang up (not "accrocher")

Je viens de raccrocher avec Pierre.
- raccrocher

He bitterly disappoints expectations.
(to disappoint)

Il déçoit amèrement les attentes.
(décevoir)

the curse
the blessing

la malédiction
la bénédiction

to draw a blank, to fail

faire chou blanc (2)

the failure (not "(le) echec")

(le)insuccès

the backup/extra heating

le chauffage d'appoint (2)

She seemed visibly dumbfounded.

Elle semblait visiblement medusée.

a student asks her out of the blue
alt: point blank
Hint: the doublet

un élève lui demande à brûle-pourpoint (2)
Hint: le pourpoint

the bad weather

les intempéries (f)

the sleet

le grésil

the hail
to hail

la grêle
grêler

hundreds of cheated investors
- to cheat (not "tromper")

des centaines d'investisseurs floués
- flouer

The nuclear threat is a bluff that must be put into perspective.
- to relativize, to put into perspective
- to bluff

La ménace nucléaire est un bluff qu'il faut relativiser.
- relativiser
- bluffer

a colossus with feet of clay that still roars
- to roar

un colosse aux pieds d'argile qui rugit toujours
- rugir

The victory that he thought (would be) easy has turned into a draw.
- to turn into

La victoire qu'il croyait facile s'est muée en match nul.
- se muer en

Greed: It's the very foundation of capitalism.
- the greed (not "(la) avidité))

La cupidité: C'est le fondement même du capitalisme.
- la cupidité

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