filmed stealing a PQ leaflet
- to steal (not "voler")
filmée en train de subtiliser un dépliant du PQ
(the 'b' is pronounced)
m/I was thinking that sleeping on it might help.
lit: the night might bring counsel
Je pensais que la nuit porterait conseil.
My son's decision saddens me very much.
- to sadden
La décision de mon fils m'attriste beaucoup.
- attrister (trans)
You could have said anything.
He's talking nonsense.
Vous auriez pu dire n'importe quoi.
Il dit n'importe quoi.
He's associating with ... a "Rod".
- to associate with (not "s'associer à")
Il fraye avec ... un "Rod".
- frayer avec
I'm begging you.
- to beg
Je t'en supplie.
- supplier
The proofreader struck out the unecessary parts of the sentence.
- to strike out
Le correcteur a biffé les parties inutiles de la phrase.
- biffer
She was dismissed from her job.
- to dismiss
Elle a été démis de son travail.
- démettre
Dan gave me the go ahead, if you're up for it. (lit: gave me the mandate)
- to be up for something
Dan m'a donné le mandat si t'es partante.
- être partant(e) pour qqch
I will blame myself for the rest of my life.
lit: to the death
Je vais m'en vouloir à la mort.
He doesn't want to budge from his position.
- to budge
Il ne veut pas démordre de sa position.
- démordre
She is believed to have moved in with him a year ago.
alt: thought to have moved in
lit: would have moved in
- to move in
Elle aurait emménagé avec lui il y a un an.
- emménager ('e' as in 'en')
in a series of tweets
(not "dans une série")
dans une enfilade de tweets/gazouillis
three adjoining rooms
trois pièces en enfilade
attainable
unattainable
to attain, to achieve, to reach
atteignable
inatteignable
atteindre (3)
Their interests may overlap.
- to overlap (each other)
Ses intérêts peuvent se chevaucher.
- se chevaucher (reciprocal reflexive)
Some federal programs overlap with those of the province.
- to overlap
Certains programmes fédéraux chevauchent ceux de la province.
- chevaucher (trans)
I then dreamed of riding a Harley.
- to ride (not "monter"), to straddle
J'ai alors rêvé de chevaucher un Harley.
- chevaucher (trans)
Sarah is very on edge as the trial approaches.
- to be very on edge (not "être a fleur de peau")
Sarah n'en mène pas large à l'approche du procès.
- ne pas en mener large
m/ The firm had a leading role in the management of the pandemic.
La firme en menait très large dans la gestion de la pandémie.
as long as you're not avoiding me
Hint: not "tant que" "aussi longtemps que"
lit: doing avoidance
- the avoidance
dans la mesure où tu fais pas d'évitement
- (le) évitement
favourite customers (colloquial)
des clients chouchous
your first housewarming gift
ton premier cadeau de crémaillère
to tread upon the floor of the Blue Room (the National Assembly)
- to tread upon
- the floor (not "le plancher")
fouler le sol du Salon Bleu (l'Assemblée nationale)
- fouler
- le sol
on French soil
- the soil (the floor)
sur le sol français
apart from the fact that he gets laid more than me
hormis le fait qu'il s'envoie en l'air plus que moi
We stay the course?
- the course
On garde le cap?
- le cap
the lock of hair
(to spill the beans)
(to be in league)
la mèche de cheveux
(vendre la mèche)
(être de mèche)
Wait, I'm missing a piece here.
(i.e., not following)
Attendez, il m'en manque un bout là.
the armpit
(la) aisselle ("ai" as in "et")