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That time is really over.
- over, completed

Cette époque est vraiment révolue.
- révolu(e)

a bygone era

une époque révolue

the ibuprofen

(le) ibuprofène

They want to wear him down.
You had him worn down.

Ils veulent l'avoir à l'usure.
Vous l'avez eu à l'usure.

You're perceptive.
an insightful lecture
- perceptive (not "perceptif"), insightful

T'es perspicace.
une conférence perspicace
- perspicace (2)

the truthful information
an authentic patina
- truthful, authentic

l'information véridique
une patinne véridique
- véridique (2)

to leave surreptitiously

partir en catimini

to cry (QC) (not "pleurer")

avoir les yeux dans l'eau (QC)

to compromise, to tone down
lit: put water in your wine

mettre de l'eau dans son vin (2)

eminent
eminently

éminent(e)
éminement

(after an effort or training)
wrecked (QC)
aching, sore
exhausted (not "épuisé" "poqué (QC)"
(gruelling)

(après un effort ou un entraînement)
raqué (QC)
courbaturé
éreinté
(éreintant(e))

three days of unspeakable suffering
- unspeakable

trois jours de souffrances indicibles
- indicible

to embellish, to beautify
the embellishment, the beautification

embellir (2) ('l' sound)
(le) embellissement (2)

the patriarchal society
- patriarchal

la société patriarcale
- patriarcal(e)

While showing a house (2): It's turn-key.

En montrant une maison / En faisant visiter une maison: C'est clé en main.

There are sparks.
- the spark (2)

Il y a des flammèches.
- la flammèche, (la) étincelle

to shoot an arrow
to shoot a look

décocher une flèche
décocher un regard

that is commonly called

qu'on appelle communément

the cocoon

le cocon (pronounce "co" as in "collabaration")

the willful blindness

(le) aveuglement volontaire

The negotiations are progressing.
- the negotiations, the horse-trading

Les tractations progressent.
- les tractations (fpl) (2)

the accountability
- the surrender

la reddition de comptes
- la reddition

back at the helm

de retour à la barre

to undercut political correctness
- to sap, to undercut
- the rectitude, the correctness, the straightness

saper la rectitude politique
- saper (2)
- la rectitude (3)

to shorten the training period
- to shorten (not "raccourcir")

écourter la période de formation
- écourter

He's trying to make us believe that he's in control (master) of the situation.
- to make sb believe that

Il essaie de nous faire accroire qu'il est maître de la situation.
- faire accroire à qn que

the absurdity of our dealings/intrigues
(Collins: pejorative)

l'absurdité de nos agissements (mpl)

the harassment
(not "(le) harcèlement")
th/ used in legal circles

les mesures vexatoires

I thought it was going to be disposed of in 2, 3 days.
- disposed of (shipped)

J'ai pensé que ça allait être expedié dans 2, 3, jours.
- expedié

through a spokesperson
- the intermediary

par l'entremise d'un porte-parole
- (la) entremise

crazy, dumb
the crazy person, the dumb person

débile (2)
le débile (2)

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