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21 ami
n. m.1 Faire ami-ami: To 'click', to strike up a friendship easily.2. Petit ami: Boyfriend. Petite amie: Girlfriend. (It is worth noting that these innocuous-looking appellations refer to sexual partners, whereas grand ami/ grande amie have no such connotation and tend, if anything, to mean the opposite, i.e. someone for whom one has little affection.) -
22 bringueur
n. m. Character who likes to live it up (for whom life is one never- ending party). -
23 gate
past part. Ne pas être gàté:a To be 'short on luck', to have suffered many setbacks.b To have an ungainly appearance. (In both instances, the expression is cruelly ironic and is used to refer to an individual for whom no pity is really felt.) -
24 négrier
n. m. Employer who relies on 'black labour' to keep his firm going, i.e. employees for whom he has to bear no State charges and who, in turn, evade taxation. -
25 ongle
n. m.1. Payer rubis sur l'ongle: To pay 'cash on the nail', to settle a debt promptly and in full.2. Avoir les ongles en deuil: To have dirty fingernails. (This expression is self-evident to the French for whom all correspondence relating to mourning is edged in black.) -
26 pédaleur
n. m. Pédaleur de charme: Gushing and smarmy individual who tends to overwhelm those on whom he is trying to make an impression. (There is no implication that the man concerned is homosexual, but his mannerisms are irritating.) -
27 rembin
n. m.1. Feeble excuse, weak pretext and explanation (one that is not likely to satisfy the person to whom it is made). Marcher au rembin: To go through life with a ready stock of excuses.2. 'Date', appointment, arranged meeting.3. Faire du rembin: To 'chat up', to court a woman. -
28 tardigrade
n. m. 'Stick-in-the-mud' reactionary, character for whom 'progress' is always in the wrong direction. -
29 virginité
n. f. Se refaire une virginité: To 'turn over a new leaf', to make a fresh start hoping that the 'clean sheet' remains unblotted by the past. (This expression, which has no sexual connotation, can be equated with the remark made about a famous Hollywood actress of whom a critic said 'I knew her before she was a virgin!') -
30 Précarité
Literally 'precarity", people in a precarious situation. The word précaires is used to describe people in France who live in a precarious working or social environment. The words are particularly, though not only, used in the language of the far left, for whom la précarité is seen as the byproduct of liberal economics, an inadmissable situation, applicable to anyone who does not have a secure job, a decent place to live, or enough money.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Précarité
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31 Tutoyer
To use the pronoun tu rather than vous - a concept that English-speakers often find hard to master correctly, tutoyer means addressing someone using the familiar singular tu form of the second person pronoun, rather than the more formal vous form. Fifty years ago, in formal family circles, children would address their parents using vous rather than tu; this practice has now more or less completely disappeared, and tutoiement is the common form of address within families and within groups of friends or workplace colleagues who know each other. The change is generational, and President Sarkozy has brought tutoiement right into the formal surroundings of presidential affairs. Vouvoiement (using vous) remains the norm in formal circumstances, when addressing a hierarchical superior, a stranger or someone with whom one has only occasional working relations - though the French are now quite used to speakers of other languages, notably English-speakers, getting it wrong.Usage in France varies from usage in Quebec, where speakers often use "tu" as a singular form of "vous" to address each other even in a business context or between strangers.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Tutoyer
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whom — whom; whom·ev·er; whom·so; whom·so·ev·er; … English syllables
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whom — see who and whom … Modern English usage
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whom|so|ev|er — «HOOM soh EHV uhr», pronoun. = whomever; any person whom … Useful english dictionary
whom — O.E. hwam, the dative form of hwa (see WHO (Cf. who)) … Etymology dictionary
whom — [ho͞om] pron. [ME < OE hwam, dat. of hwa, WHO] objective form of WHO: see the usage note at WHO … English World dictionary
whom|so — «HOOM SOH», pronoun. = whomever. (Cf. ↑whomever) … Useful english dictionary
