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all the personnel who are hard at work

tout le personnel qui sont à pied d'oeuvre

you barge in here with your heavy-handed approach
- the clog, the hoof

vous débarquez ici avec vos gros sabots
- le sabot (2)

the deafness
(deaf)

la surdité
(sourd(e))

a double-edged sword
lit: a double-edged knife
- the edge, the sharpness
(brusque, sharp)

un couteau à double tranchant
- le tranchant (2)
(tranchant)

a game of chicken

un jeu de la poule mouillée

m/to get out the big stick (in a dispute)
- the club
(the sledgehammer, the club)

sortir le gourdin
- le gourdin
(la massue)

the bishop
the bishopric

(le) évêque
(le) évêché

the minister was under the gril (i.e., was being grilled)
- the grill
- to grill

la ministre était sous le gril
- le gril
- griller ('y' sound)

the whiner
to whine

le pleurnicheur
pleurnicher

a clash between the two candidates
- the clash (the minor (car) accident)

un accrochage entre les deux candidates
- (le) accrochage

the relic

le reliquat
(PRR1 as in "cheval")

But this time the usual rout does not occur.
- the rout

Mais, cette fois, la débandade habituelle ne se produit pas.
- la débandade

I use a spinning wheel to spin wool.
- the spinning wheel
- to spin (to give)

J'utilise un rouet pour filer de la laine.
- le rouet
- filer

I had to leave in a hurry.
- to leave (to spin, to give)

J'ai dû filer en vitesse.
- filer

time flies

le temps file

The clock is ticking: you must send us your ideas by March 25.

Le temps file: vous devez nous faire parvenir vos idées d'ici le 25 mars.

an all-out offensive

une offensive tous azimuts

Leave me alone!
- to give

Fiche-moi la paix!
- ficher

to chuck sb out

ficher qn à la porte

Clear off!

Fiche(-moi) le camp!

on a war footing

sur le pied de guerre

to strengthen the financial sector
- to strengthen (not "renforcer")

raffermir le secteur financier
- raffermir

a cream to firm up the skin around my eyes
- to firm up (to strengthen)

une crème pour raffermir la peau autour de mes yeux
- raffermir

The mutiny was doomed to failure from the start.

La mutinerie était voués à l'échec dès le commencement.

a building that was gutted by the explosion
- gutted, disemboweled

un immeuble qui était éventré par l'explosion
- éventré (2)

the propensity

la propension

a screwed up cousin

une cousine paumée

the scaffold
to devise a plan
- to construct, to devise

(le) échafaudage
échafauder un plan
- échafauder

and who makes of it a livelihood

et qui en fait un gagne-pain

the apathy
apathetic

(la) apathie
apathique

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