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| harness, get down to something |
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| delay, reprieve, adjourn, stay (legal) |
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| mistreat, abuse, mangle, destroy, |
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lose, misplace
get lost, lose one's way |
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| cog, gearwheel, machinery |
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| contravene, depart from, infringe |
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| underbrush, scrubland, jungle (metaphorical) |
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| restraint, straitjacket, fetters, horse collar |
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| blunt, dull, take the edge off |
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| end, close, fence, shut off |
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| instability, insecurity, hesitancty |
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| reflect, mirror line of fire, line of sight, line of vision |
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downstream portion, support
later on (?), as a consequence (?) |
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| classify, sort, put into order, choose, pick out |
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| package (of measures), presence (police. military), device, machine, apparatus, plan |
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| take advantage of (positive) |
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| take advantage of (negative) |
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just (a short time ago) (Je viens juste de l'en faire une.)
just (only) (Je veux juste un réponse directe.)
just (fair) (Leur punition était sévère mais juste.) |
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| just (by a slim margin) (Il a raté le bus de peu.) |
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repercussion, negative effect
(also in physics "angle of incidence" (?)) |
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| where necessary, in that event, if need be, |
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| note, notice, observe, record, certify |
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| demarcate, circumscribe (panic, freak out) |
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| for all that, provided that, clenching |
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twitching, contraction,
state of tension |
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| pride oneself, boast about |
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être au diapason
diapason (nm) |
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to be in agreement with, in tune with etc
tuning fork |
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| uproar, row, noise (splash (publicity) |
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pack, press, compress (tamp)
pack up, pack away (familiar)
shrink (someone tasser) |
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annoy, bore, bother, worry (familiar)
be bored, be fed up (familiar) |
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graze (literary)
send packing, (receive badly) (familiar) |
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| gaffe, blunder, slip-up (familiar), whopper, fib |
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| springboard, diving board |
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cheat, swindle (Quebec)
dishonest person, liar |
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tidy, neat, orderly,
put away, bring around (persuade) |
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| uncommon, abandoned, lying idle |
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| original, novel, new, unprecedented, unpublished |
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| buck (horse), stumble, flinch, balk, shy away from |
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tear down (level)
niveler par le bas (le haut) |
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pick up, spice, raise, embellish, measure, dismiss, fire,
result from ("tout ça relevait d'un consensus social qui ne tenait à rien") |
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not take much, be a very fine line (¿¿)
(not to count for much) |
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| foundation, base, bedrock |
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| lock, cordon off, close off |
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tax,
accuse someone of something (taxer qqn de qch)
(slang) cadge, sponge, pinch, swipe |
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| float, bail out, recapitalize |
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fool, deceive, cheat, swindle
at half-mast |
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| sheepish, abashed, shame-faced |
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face down, flat on one's stomach
acting in a servile way |
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| prevaricate, procrastinarte (?), pussyfoot, tergiversate |
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| saddle bag, some sort of (woman's) bag with similar straps (?) |
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coax, cajole, wheedle
become softer |
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| hang on (someone's) every word |
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| overflow (substance, emotion); excess, misbehaviour |
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aaclear, settle (debt); sell off, discount, put on sale, pay
end in
reduce to |
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se ratatiner
ratatiner (familer) |
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shrivel up
demolish, bump off |
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crochu
avoir d'atomes crochus |
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hooked, curved
have a lot in common |
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| sprinkle (also figurative), dredgecover lightly with a powdery substance (I.e. 'dust'), figurative (give sparingly) |
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| literally and figuratively |
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| soft, weak, meek, pliable |
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cause to crumble, erode
crumble, erode |
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| lancer un pavé dans la mare |
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make waves (I.e. do something that will have multiple unpredictable repercussions)
also? set the cat among the pigeons, put a fly in the ointment |
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| raging (and sudden?) hunger (J'ai la fringale.) |
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| be distracted, raise an eyebrow |
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| dissipate, dispel, waste, squander, fritter away |
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| lingering odor, stench, reek |
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dehors
en dehors de
à l'extérieur de |
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outside (adv)
apart from
outside (prep) |
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chip the corner of, ruin (figurative)
dog-eared |
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corner, bring to bay
[acculé à la pauvreté] |
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turn someone against somebody, come between
cloud, confuse
quarrel |
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| looked down on, disapproved of |
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| moreover, besides, in addition. |
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| harass, victimize, initiate (school, university) |
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upset (attrister, désoler)
dismay (consterner) |
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term, root word (linguistics)
name of a saint (religion) |
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shortly, soon, just now, this afternoon
sometimes (now)...sometimes (now) |
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| delay, postpone, adjourn, reprieve |
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| transport, carry, dispatch |
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call out, hail, shout at
stop, question, stop and question, take in for questioning |
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| weigh, estimate the weight (or worth) of something |
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| resistant, defiant, unyielding, refractory |
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affubler
affubler (qqn de qch) |
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deck yourself up in
saddle some with something |
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| leave yourself open to criticism, to ask for something (harmful) |
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| hit, strike, clamp down, put your foot down |
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| wrest, snatch, tear, extract |
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poncif (nm)
poncif (adjective) |
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common place, cliché
commonplace, banal |
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bump into, jostle, shove
shake up (mp) |
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| boarding (coming on board) |
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s'ébrouer
¿(Il's s'ébrouent parfois comme une caste au-dessus de la loi.)? |
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| pamper, spoil, caress, make a fuss over somebody |
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| hoard, booty [argent amassé] |
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| give birth to, give rise to |
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do something ahead of somebody else
[Il m'a pris de vitesse sur ce coupe là.] |
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| take over from, take turns |
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train, break in, tame
assess take stock of |
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| import, be important, matter |
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stalk, cob, roundup, raid
grab, nab, make off with, swipe |
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| purification, sanitation, clean up |
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| denounce, inform on, tell on, back out of, renounce |
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response, retort
in response |
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| precarious, shaky, dubious, dicey, bandy legged, bow-legged |
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weave (tisser), plot
be hatched, be woven, be afoot |
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| ratify, approve, rubber stamp |
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| guard, protect, shelter, shield |
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| The term is used in French traditionally to describe nouveau riche attitudes; such as "wearing expensive suits, stylish sunglasses and conspicuously large wristwatches" or anything that is ostentatious and can be considered of "poor taste". |
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| bad after taste, misadventure, misfortune, 'scrape' (?) |
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| ne pas aller de main morte |
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| not pull any punches, behave heavy handedly |
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| drag, hang out, around, hang around in a bar |
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| beat up, rain down blows upon |
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| weary, tired, bored, fed up with |
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lance-pierre
manger au lance-pierres
être payé au lance-pierre |
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slingshot
grab a quick bite to eat
to be paid peanuts |
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décrocher
décrochage scolaire (nm) |
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draw/drop back (military), land/get (familiar), give up/abandon (familiar), switch off, pick up, take down
dropping out of school |
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| prendre le train en marche |
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| get in on the action, jump on the bandwagon |
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| showdown, power struggle, arm wrestling, |
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at bay (hunting)
in a desperate situation, in dire straits |
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| converge, come together, flock |
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| delivery van, mini van, people carrier (Que) |
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at bay (hunting)
in a desperate situation, in dire straits |
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| converge, come together, flock |
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| delivery van, mini van, people carrier (Que) |
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| affront, (vexation humilante) (poking?) |
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truchement (nm)
par le truchement de |
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spokesperson
through the intervention of |
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| rebel, rise up, rail against |
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| tear (something torn), hitch, snag |
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| Downs syndrome. mongolism, trisomy |
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| carrying about, shaking about, (lively?) |
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| dancing procession, dance |
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| increase, round up, make even |
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| especially as, particularly as, as far as |
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| attraction, appeal, attractive trait |
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| real estate, property (adjective) |
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| street lamp, street light |
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| street lamp, street light |
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| fierce opponent, sworn enemy |
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| desire for purity, do-gooderism |
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| vote in (by a large majority?), elect |
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| triumph, prevail, win decisively |
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| present oneself as, pretend to be |
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| respectable, desirable, socially acceptable |
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| (of a person nobody wants anything to do with), (of someone regarded as a pariah) |
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| raise, raise (subject), arouse, whip up |
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| arrache-pied, d'arrache-pied |
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| having many clients, well-stocked |
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| See oneself as, purport to be |
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Compost,
Fertile ground, breeding ground |
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| subsidence, fall, collapse (also metaphorical) |
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| advise, recommend, encourage |
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| deficiency, lack, insolvency |
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| subscription, dues, contribution |
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| imply, hint, suggest, suppose |
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commode (nf)
commode (adjective) |
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chest of drawers
handy, practical, convenient, easy-going, accomodating |
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| coordinating (qui rassemble) |
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| frame, framework, supervison, control |
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| counter, box-office, grill, hatch |
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| be fully realized, take on its full meaning |
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| tie up, lash down, tie (connect) (metaphorically) |
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notice, detect, spot, pick out
get your bearings |
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| put on, pull on, slip on, enter, take (street, etc) |
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| caterpillar, tufty cord (carpets etc) track, low tunnel |
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| gaff, blunder, cock-up, lie / fib (familiar) |
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| sweeten, tone down, bowdlerize |
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| litter, gestation, range, reach, impact, significance, stave, staff |
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| bitter, fierce, tireless, unrelenting, tenacious, unrelenting |
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| outrageous, unconventional |
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| despise, hold in contempt |
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| ornament, embellish, adorn |
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| Debauchery ( debauche luxure) |
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| track down, discover, detect |
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lézarder
se lézarder, lézarder |
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bask in the sun, lounge, lay about
crack |
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| sweeten, tone down, bowdlerize |
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