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81 impatiente
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82 affairer (s')
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83 avoir
v. trans.1. To 'take in', to fool. Eh bien, vous m'avez drôlement eu! You've certainly put one across me!2. To 'beat hollow', to dismiss through victory.3. To 'screw', to 'have it off' with someone.4. To 'reach' someone, to make contact with someone. J'ai pas pu l'avoir au bigophone: I couldn't reach him on the blower.5. En avoir: To be 'gutsy', plucky, to be brave. (En can refer either to courage or couilles according to the colloquial emphasis within the expression.)6. En avoir jusque-là: To be 'fed up to the back teeth', to be sick and tired of someone or something. J'en ai jusque-là de ces histoires à la con! I've just about had it up to here with these pointless arguments!7. En avoir contre quelqu'un: To bear someone a grudge.8. Avoir quelqu'un aux sentiments: To get what one wants by playing on someone's feelings.9. J'en ai pour deux jours! It'll keep me busy for two days! -
84 cinq
num. adj.1. Les cinq lettres: Euphemistic alternative to merde. (An equivalent expression is le mot de Cambronne.)2. Un 'cinq-à-sept': Sexy capers. (This could also be described as the busy businessman's shortened naughty weekend.)3. Il était moins cinq: It was touch-and-go—It was a near thing.4. En cinq secs (adv. exp.): In a jiffy— Double-quick—Very quickly.6. Y oller de cinq: To shake hands with someone. (Literally to proffer a hand, i.e. five fingers.)7. Je vous reçois cinq sur cinq (Radio operators' and CB enthusiasts' slang): I'm receiving you loud and clear. -
85 nègre
n. m.1. Ghost-writer, one who does the literary donkey-work for a famous and otherwise busy author.2. Faire le nègre: To be landed with all the chores.3. Faire comme le nègre, continuer: To carry on with what one is doing. (The origin of what could loosely be called an ironical catch phrase is to be found in the seemingly pointless comment uttered by Marshal Mac-Mahon, President of the French Republic in the 1870s. When visiting a military academy he asked a junior recruit what his functions were and when told 'Je suis le nègre', i.e. one acting as a temporary batman, MacMahon, always lost for a word, simply said:'Eh bien, continuez!'. the French equivalent to the military: 'Carry on as you were!')4. Parler petit nègre: To speak broken French. ( Petit nègre is the French counterpart to pidgin English.)5. C'est comme un combat de nègres dans un tunnel (joc. & iron.): I defy anyone to make head or tail of all this! -
86 presse
n. f. Etre sous presse (of prostitute): To be busy with a client. (This expression has a jocular double-entendre as the straight meaning describes a book being printed.) -
87 ragaga
n. m: Faire du ragaga: To 'buzz around like a blue-arsed fly', to make a show of being busy with little result. -
88 ronfler
v. intrans.1. (of business): To be 'going great guns' (literally to be doing a roaring trade. There is a link between the whirring noise of busy machinery and brisk trading).2. Ça va ronfler! Things are going to hum! — There's going to be one hell of a to-do! (also: ça va barder!). -
89 yoyo
n. m.1. Character who spends his time running back and forth.2. (Prostitute's slang): Busy evening's work (because she spends her time going up and down the staircase of the hôtel de passe). -
90 zèle
n. m. Faire du zèle: To 'act the busy bee', to be officious and over-zealou. Ne fais pas de zèle! Just let things be, will you! -
91 Quartier Latin
Covering part of the 6th arondissement, and also part of the 5th, this is the traditional student quarter of Paris, centered on the Sorbonne and the Panthéon. The narrow pedestrian streets are full of cafés and restaurants, and the busy boulevards, particularly the Boulevard Saint Michel, known as the Boul'Mich, have bookshops, cinemas and other shopsDictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Quartier Latin
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92 Seine
one of the longest rivers in France, 776 km in length from its source, near Langres in the Haute Marne department, to its mouth near le Havre, on the Channel coast. The catchment area of the seine and its tributaries covers almost a third of the surface of France; the principal tributaries are the Marne, the Oise, the Yonne and the Aube. The seine is navigable for 445 kilometres from its mouth, and is particularly busy in the area of Paris. The original city of Paris was built on or close to (historians are divided on the subject) two islands in the middle of the river, known today as the Ile de la Cité and the Ile Saint Louis.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Seine
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93 animé
animated, busy
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