"the slave trader<br /> the slave ship", "le négrier<br /> le bateau négrier" "I'm not kidding<br /> - to kid, to fool around (both QC)", "Je niaise pas.<br /> - niaiser (QC)" "Vaccination is not arousing the expected passion.<br /> - the passion (not "la passion")", "La vaccination ne suscite pas l'engouement espéré.<br /> - (le) engouement" "he anticipates with some dismay<br /> - the disarray, the dismay", "il anticipe avec un certain désarroi<br /> - le désarroi (2)" "to outdo one's competitors<br /> They didn't want to be outdone.<br /> Hint: expression arising from pawn promotion in chess.", "damer le pion a ses concurrents<br /> Ils ne voulaient pas se faire damer le pion." "I'm not stupid. (QC)", "Je suis pas cave." "my bull's eye", "mon oeil-de-boeuf" "I've just accepted a posting abroad.<br /> - the posting<br /> - to post sb to<br /> - sim: the reassignment, to reassign", "Je viens d'accepter une affectation à l'étranger.<br /> - (la) affectation<br /> - affecter qn à<br /> - la réaffectation, réaffecter" "They think they have been fooled by the West.<br /> - to fool", "Ils pensent avoir été bernés par l'Occident.<br /> - berner (trans)" "the ant<br /> the anthill", "la fourmi<br /> la fourmilière" "to dissect<br /> the dissection", "disséquer: dissèque dissèques dissèque<br /> disséquons disséquez dissèquent<br /> la dissection" "He looks like he had a bad fall.<br /> alt: a bad setback", "Il a l'air de prendre une méchante débarque. (QC) (2)" "We bicker all the time.<br /> - to bicker (with each other)", "On se chicane tout le temps.<br /> - se chicaner" "My father carped about the poor service.<br /> - to carp, to carp at (someone)", "Mon père a chicané sur le mauvais service.<br /> - chicaner" "to have shadows under the eyes<br /> m/ You're a bit pale.<br /> - to encircle<br /> - the shadow", "avoir les yeux cernés<br /> T'es un peu cerné<br /> - cerner<br /> - le cerne" "His accomplice is of average size.<br /> - the size (not "la taille")", "Son complice est de gabarit moyen.<br /> - le gabarit" "the setback<br /> the bitter/great setback", "le revers<br /> le revers cuisant" "an upscale neighborhood", "un quartier huppé" "It's a mess everywhere I go.", "C'est le bordel partout où est-ce-que je passe." "Everything breaks here.<br /> - to break, to fart", "Tout pète ici.<br /> - péter (2): pète/es/e pétons/ez pètent" "He wants to work in that restaurant.<br /> He wants to work there.", "Il veut travailler dans ce restaurant.<br /> Ils veut y travailller.<br /> "y" replaces: "prep indication location (à, en, dans, derrière, sous, sur)" + "a place".<br /> Also: 'chez" + "a person"" "I'm thinking about my vacation.<br /> I'm thinking about it.", "Je pense à mes vacances.<br /> J'y pense.<br /> Some verbs followed by "à" also use "y" as replacement." "to match actions with words", "joindre la parole aux actions" "m/ It must be something that is fallen.<br /> Hint: not "est tombé"", "Ça doit être quelque chose qui est debarqué. (QC)" "it's jamming<br /> - to jam, to stick", "ça coince<br /> - coincer (2)" "It must not be easy to see them leave the hospital.<br /> - to be easy, to be obvious", "Ça doit pas être évident de les voir quitter l'hopital.<br /> - être évident (2)" "Quebec can spend this amount as it wishes.", "Le Québec peut dépenser ce montant à sa guise." "the snippets of conversation<br /> - the snippet", "les bribes de conversation<br /> - la bribe" "the news anchor", "le chef (la cheffe) d'antenne" "It's sickening/disgusting what she said.<br /> - sickening, disgusting<br /> - sickened, disgusted<br /> fed up (QC)", "C'est écoeurant ce qu'elle a dit.<br /> - écoeurant (2)<br /> - écoeuré (3)"
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