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in custody

en garde à vue

When the time to choose a vacation destination comes, Jules has trouble deciding.
Not: "a de la difficulté à se décider"

Quand vient le temps de choisir une destination vacances, Jules branle dans le manche. (QC)

Screw you for your blackmail attempt.

Je t'emmerde pour ta tentative de chantage.

Am I boring you with my hunting stories?

Je t'emmerde avec mes histoires de chasse?

the police blunder
- the blunder (not "la bévue")

la bavure policière
- la bavure

to defrost the windows
- to defrost
- to frost

dégivrer les fenêtres
- dégivrer
- givrer

to be crippled with debt

crouler sous les dettes

the tree trimmer (person, tool)
to trim, to prune

l'émondeur
émonder

the streets strewn with tree branches
(not "parsemée")

les rues jonchées de branches d'arbres

many were walking around, phone in hand
(lit: many were those)
- to wallk around, to wander around

nombreux étaient ceux qui se baladaient, téléphone en main
- se balader

the walk (not "la promenade")

la balade

The movers took some shortcuts.
(not "ont pris des raccourcis")
- to take shortcuts (QC)

Les déménageurs ne se sont pas cassé le bicycle.
- ne pas se casser le bicycle (QC)
(shouldn't it be "cassés)

the widowhood
(the widower, the widow)

le veuvage
(le veuf, la veuve)

The student's rude remarks are unacceptable.
- inadmissible, unacceptable (not "inacceptable")

Les remarques grossières de l'élève sont inadmissibles.
- inadmissible (2)

The bookseller listed all the books in the store.
- the bookseller
- to list, to classify (not "classer")

Le libraire a répertorié tous les livres du magasin
- le libraire
- répertorier (2)

The budding branches.
- to bud
- the bud

Les branches qui bourgeonnent.
- bourgeonner
- le bourgeon

The Maple Leafs fans who are full of hope as the playoffs approach.
lit: drinking in hope
- to drink in

Les partisans des Maple Leafs qui s’abreuvent d’espoir à l’approche des séries éliminatoires.
- s'abreuver de

pagan

païen(ne) (pronounced pay-ein, pay-enne)

Do you feel sluggish or weighed down?
- amorphous, sluggish
- weighed down

Vous sentez-vous amorphe ou alourdi?
- amorphe (2)
- alourdi

a pet

un animale de compagnie

the household appliance

(le) électroménager

I feel sorry for you.
(not "Je suis désolé pour toi.")
- to feel sorry for somebody

Je te plains.
- plaindre quelqu’un

where this money will be taxed little or not at all

oú cet argent sera peu ou pas imposé

She scalded her daughter.
- to scald

Elle a ébouillanté sa fille.
- ébouillanter (trans)

She was under the thumb of her in-laws.
Hint: not "sous le pouce"

Elle était sous la coupe de sa belle famille.

the tent (not "la tente")
th/a big, solid tent

le chapiteau

a lenient sentence

une peine clémente

the mild weather

le temps clément

Our house was once a bakery.
- once, formerly

Notre maison était jadis une boulangerie.
- jadis

Some snake bites can be lethal.
- the bite (not "la bouchée)

Certaines morsures de serpent peuvent être mortelles.
- la morsure

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