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1 huff
huff [hʌf]1. noun* * *1.(colloq) [hʌf] noun2.to huff and puff — lit haleter; fig faire toute une histoire
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2 huff
huff [hʌf]∎ British figurative they'll huff and puff a bit but they won't stop us ils protesteront, mais ils nous laisseront faire(a) (in draughts → opponent's piece) souffler3 noun∎ familiar to be in a huff faire la tête, bouder□ ;∎ British to take the huff prendre la mouche;∎ it's no use getting into a huff about it ça ne sert à rien de t'énerver□ ;∎ he went off in a huff il est parti fâché□ -
3 huff
huff ○B vi souffler ; to huff and puff lit souffler et haleter ; fig faire toute une histoire (about à propos de). -
4 huff
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5 in(to) a huff
(being or becoming silent because one is angry, displeased etc: He is in a huff; He went into a huff.) froissé -
6 in(to) a huff
(being or becoming silent because one is angry, displeased etc: He is in a huff; He went into a huff.) froissé -
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8 in
in [ɪn]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. preposition2. adverb3. adjective4. plural noun5. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. preposition━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When in is an element in a phrasal verb, eg ask in, fill in, look up the verb. When it is part of a set combination, eg in danger, weak in, look up the other word.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► in it/them ( = inside it, inside them) dedans• our bags were stolen, and our passports were in them on nous a volé nos sacs et nos passeports étaient dedansb. (people, animals, plants) chez► in + feminine countries, regions, islands en━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Feminine countries usually end in -e.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► en is also used with masculine countries beginning with a vowel or silent h.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► in + masculine country au• in Japan/Kuwait au Japon/Koweït━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Note also the following:━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► in + plural country/group of islands aux━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━e. (month, year, season) en• in summer/autumn/winter en été/automne/hiver━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━f. ( = wearing) eng. (language, medium, material) en• in marble/velvet en marbre/veloursj. ( = while) en• in trying to save her he fell into the water himself en essayant de la sauver, il est tombé à l'eau2. adverba. ( = inside) à l'intérieur• she opened the door and they all rushed in elle a ouvert la porte et ils se sont tous précipités à l'intérieur━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━b. (at home, work)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• you're never in! tu n'es jamais chez toi !• is Paul in? est-ce que Paul est là ?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► to be in may require a more specific translation.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► in between + noun/pronoun entre• he positioned himself in between the two weakest players il s'est placé entre les deux joueurs les plus faibles• in between adventures, he finds time for... entre deux aventures, il trouve le temps de...► to be in for sth ( = be threatened with)• you don't know what you're in for! (inf) tu ne sais pas ce qui t'attend !• he's in for it! (inf) il va en prendre pour son grade ! (inf)► to be in on sth (inf) ( = know about)the new treatment is preferable in that... le nouveau traitement est préférable car...► to be well in with sb (inf) être dans les petits papiers de qn (inf)3. adjective• it's the in thing to... c'est très à la mode de...4. plural noun5. compounds• to have in-service training faire un stage d'initiation ► in-store adjective [detective] employé par le magasin* * *Note: in is often used after verbs in English ( join in, tuck in, result in, write in etc). For translations, consult the appropriate verb entry (join, tuck, result, write etc)If you have doubts about how to translate a phrase or expression beginning with in ( in a huff, in business, in trouble etc) you should consult the appropriate noun entry (huff, business, trouble etc)This dictionary contains usage notes on such topics as age, countries, dates, islands, months, towns and cities etc. Many of these use the preposition in. For the index to these notesFor examples of the above and particular functions and uses of in, see the entry below[ɪn] 1.in prison/town — en prison/ville
in the film/newspaper — dans le film/journal
I'm in here! — je suis là!; bath, bed
2) (inside, within) dansthere's something in it — il y a quelque chose dedans or à l'intérieur
3) ( expressing a subject or field) dansin insurance — dans les assurances; course, expert
4) (included, involved)to be in on the secret — (colloq) être dans le secret
I wasn't in on it — (colloq) je n'étais pas dans le coup (colloq)
5) ( in expressions of time)6) ( within the space of) en7) ( expressing the future) dans8) ( for) depuisit hasn't rained in weeks — il n'a pas plu depuis des semaines, ça fait des semaines qu'il n'a pas plu
9) (during, because of) dans10) ( with reflexive pronouns)how do you feel in yourself? — est-ce que tu as le moral?; itself
11) (present in, inherent in)12) (expressing colour, composition) en13) ( dressed in) en14) ( expressing manner or medium)‘no,’ he said in a whisper — ‘non,’ a-t-il chuchoté
in pencil/in ink — au crayon/à l'encre
15) ( as regards)rich/poor in minerals — riche/pauvre en minéraux
16) (by)17) ( in superlatives) de18) ( in measurements)19) ( in ratios)a gradient of 1 in 4 — une pente de 25%
20) ( in approximate amounts)in their hundreds ou thousands — par centaines or milliers
21) ( expressing age)2.in old age — avec l'âge, en vieillissant
in and out prepositional phrase3.to weave in and out of — se faufiler entre [traffic, tables]
in that conjunctional phrase dans la mesure où4.1) ( indoors)to ask ou invite somebody in — faire entrer quelqu'un
2) (at home, at work)to be in by midnight — être rentré avant minuit; keep, stay
3) (in prison, in hospital)4) ( arrived)5) Sport6) ( gathered)7) ( in supply)8) ( submitted)5.the homework has to be in tomorrow — le devoir doit être rendu demain; get, power, vote
(colloq) adjectiveto be in —
••to have an in with somebody — US avoir ses entrées chez quelqu'un
to have it in for somebody — (colloq) avoir quelqu'un dans le collimateur (colloq)
you're in for it — (colloq) tu vas avoir des ennuis
he's in for a shock/surprise — il va avoir un choc/être surpris
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9 march
march [mɑ:tʃ]1 noun∎ troops on the march des troupes en marche;∎ figurative the middle classes are on the march la classe moyenne s'est mobilisée;∎ the march on Versailles la marche sur Versailles;∎ a march of 20 km une marche de 20 km;∎ their camp was a day's march away leur camp était à une journée de marche;∎ figurative the march of time/events la marche du temps/des événements;∎ quick march! en avant, marche!;(b) (demonstration) manifestation f, marche f;∎ to go on a march manifester, descendre dans la rue;∎ peace march marche f pour la paix∎ slow/quick march marche f lente/rapide(d) (usu pl) (frontier) frontière f;∎ the Welsh Marches les marches fpl galloises∎ the troops were marched out of the citadel on fit sortir les troupes de la citadelle∎ the prisoner was marched away/back to his cell on conduisit/ramena le prisonnier dans sa cellule;∎ the shoplifter was marched into the manager's office on conduisit le voleur dans le bureau du directeur;∎ the children were marched off to bed les enfants ont été expédiés au lit (au pas de gymnastique)∎ the regiment marched past the President le régiment défila devant le Président;∎ the soldiers marched for three days and nights les soldats ont marché pendant trois jours et trois nuits;∎ to march against the enemy marcher contre l'ennemi;∎ to march off to war/into battle partir à la guerre/au combat;∎ to march on a city marcher sur une ville(b) (walk briskly) avancer d'un pas ferme ou résolu;∎ to march down the street/into a room descendre la rue/entrer dans une pièce d'un pas résolu;∎ they marched off in a huff ils partirent furieux;∎ she marched up to him and slapped him across the face elle se dirigea droit sur lui et le gifla;∎ he marched impatiently up and down the station platform il arpentait le quai impatiemment;∎ he marched upstairs il monta l'escalier d'un air décidé(c) (in demonstration) manifester;∎ the students marched alongside the workers les étudiants manifestèrent aux côtés des ouvriers∎ time marches on le temps s'écoule inexorablement►► March of Dimes = association caritative américaine d'aide aux enfants handicapésⓘ SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA Il s'agit d'une opération menée en 1864 par le général nordiste Sherman en Géorgie pendant la guerre de Sécession. À la tête de 60 000 hommes et après avoir incendié la ville d'Atlanta, Sherman rejoignit la côte en détruisant sur son passage toute l'infrastructure sudiste: voies de chemin de fer, cultures, bétail, bâtiments etc.
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