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some comments gleaned earlier
- to glean

quelques commentaires glanés plus tôt
- glaner

It was due to happen.

C'était dû pour arriver.

But we will have to get our hands dirty.
- to dirty

Mais va falloir qu'on se salisse les mains.
- (se) salir

The plaintiff's lawyer carefully prepared the indictment.
- the indictment

L'avocat du plaignant a soigneusement préparé le réquisitoire.
- le réquisitoire

shouted down by the court of Facebook
- to shout down, to boo

conspué par le tribunal de Facebook
- conspuer (pronounced like "peut")

pronto i.e., right away

illico

to strike it rich
lit: find some veins
- the vein, the motherlode

trouver des filons
- le filon (2)

the seagull

la mouette

the starting right guard
lit: holder m/current

la garde à droite titulaire

a tear to a triceps
- the biceps

une déchirure à un triceps
(the 's' is pronounced in "triceps")
- le biceps

He played as a starter last season.

Il a joué comme partant la saison dernière.

The acquisition was a no brainer for the Jets.

L'acquisition allait de soi pour les Jets.

the corral reefs
- the corral
- the reef (not "(le) écueil")

les récifs de corail
- le corail
- le récif

the chemical fertilizer
- the fertilizer

l'engrais chimique
- (le) engrais

the tea pickers
- the picker, the gatherer
- to pick, to gather
- the picking, the gathering, the harvest (not "la moisson")

les cueilleuses de thé
- le cueilleur, la cueilleuse (2)
- cueillir (2)
- la cueillette (3)

their worn hands, deeply furrowed
lit: dug with furrows
- the furrow

leurs mains usées, creusées de sillons
- le sillon ('y' sound)

your rare sexual frolics
- the frolics
- to frolic

vos rares ébats sexuels
- les ébats (m.pl.)
- s'ébattre

the romanticism, the romance (not "la romance")

le romantisme (2)

You keep m/screwing with me so that I feel guilty.
- to schtupp

T'arrêtes pas de me piner pour que je me sente coupable.
- piner

the capsizing

le chavirement

It happens that you're my wife.
not: "Il se trouve"

Ça s'adonne que t'es ma femme.

You make me the glorification of the m/stay-at-home mom.
- the apology, the glorification

Tu me fais l'apologie de la mère au foyer.
- (la) apologie (2)

I'll get over it.
Hint: not "je vais en revenir" (QC)

Je vais m'en remettre.

the young girl who was dying in front on your house
- to be dying, to be in agony, to agonize
- the agony, the death throes

la jeune file qui agonisait devant chez vous
- agoniser (3)
- (la) agonie (2)

I don't want to know anything about your shenanigans.
- the shenanigans, the scheming (2)

Je ne veux rien savoir de vos manigances.
- les manigances (f.pl.), les magouilles (f.pl.) (2)

to let the dust settle

laisser retomber la poussière

as if I was a good-for-nothing, a freeloader
- the freeloader

comme se j'étais un bon à rien, un profiteur
- le profiteur

the toga, the robe (e.g., worn by a lawyer)

la toge (2)

We will improve/enrich the offer.
- to enrich (trans)
- to get rich

On va enrichir l'offre.
- enrichir
- s'enrichir

arduous

ardu(e)

She's out of my league.

Elle est au-dessus de ma ligue.

the dowry

la dot (the 't' is pronounced)

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