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41 connement
adv.1. Stupidly. Et connement je lui ai prêté du fric: And like a bloody fool I lent him some money (also: comme un con).2. Tout connement: Purely and simply. C'est tout connement la vérité: It's the plain and simple truth. -
42 mise
n. f.1. Sauver la mise à quelqu'un: To 'get someone off the hook', to go to someone's rescue and save the day.2. Mise en l'air:a Break-in, burglary.b 'Con', confidence trick.3. Mise en boîte: 'Ragging', 'leg-pulling', teasing.4. Mise à pied: 'Sacking', 'firing', act of dismissing someone from a job.5. Faire de la mise en scène ( à quelqu'un): To put on an act in order to pull off a coup or simply to get one's own way. Elle lui a fait une de ces mises en scène quand il est rentré: She certainly pulled out all the stops—tears, pleas, the lot—when he got home. -
43 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! -
44 pied-de-biche
n. m. Tirer le pied-de-biche: To go begging from house to house. (In this instance, a pied-de-biche is the cloven-foot door-knocker. This expression died in the late 30s, and in modern French a pied-de-biche is purely and simply a crowbar.) -
45 Ball Trap
Many visitors to France have been perplexed, if not alarmed, by these words, often seen on small hoardings in villages and rural France. Ball trap is actually a popular rural French sport, and simply translates into English as clay pigeon shooting.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Ball Trap
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46 Besancenot, Olivier
b 1974.Chief spokesman and virtual leader of the NPA, the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste, a left-wing anti-capitalist party founded in early 2009. Prior to the founding of the NPA, Besancenot had been leader of the LCR Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire party. Very telegenic and a good speaker, Besançenot is a popular guest on radio and TV talk shows. He ran in the presidential elections in both 2002 and 2007, and each time achieved over 4% of the vote. Eschewing labels, he simply describes himself as a "revolutionary", and can be described as a classic example of the French intellectual left. Born into a middle-class family, he achieved a postgraduate degree in modern history from the University of Paris, but works as a postman.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Besancenot, Olivier
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47 Boulogne, bois de
The largest green space in the centre of the Parisconurbation. Often referred to simply as " le bois", this old tract of woodland, situated just outside the city limits of central Paris ( Paris intra muros), is the most famous of Parisian parks. Being situated on the western edge of the city centre, le Bois has traditionally been popular with the residents of Paris's more affluent and cultured western arondissements, notably the 16th, and features prominently in many works of French literature. The park today covers an area of 846 hectares, three times the size of London's Hyde Park.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Boulogne, bois de
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48 Carte Vitale
Plastic card, with microchip, attesting that a French resident is covered under the national health insurance scheme. Since the introduction of the Carte Vitale, the process of payment for medicines has been greatly simplified. By presenting their card to the chemist or pharmacist; card holders now simply pay the difference betwen the cost and reimbursement value, and no longer have to fill in and send in forms in order to claim reimbursement.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Carte Vitale
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49 Institut de France
The Institut de France (French Institute), also referred to simply as "l'Institut", is a multidisciplinary learned society, including the members of the five French " Académies". It was founded in 1795. Its stated mission is to perfect the arts and the sciences through the meeting of great minds from different fields; and to manage the thousands of donations and legacies that it receives for this purpose.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Institut de France
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50 Paysan
This word is commonly used in contemporary French, and is not usually pejorative like the English word "peasant". It simply means 'small farmer'. A synonym is agriculteur.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Paysan
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51 Redevance
this word most commonly refers to the annual TV licence fee paid in France. This is included with general local taxes, but households only pay the licence fee once (i.e. second homes and holiday cottages are exempt, unless the owners do not have a principal residence elsewhere in France). More generally, redevance simply means money that is due, a standard fee.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Redevance
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52 Pain de campagne
country loaf; can vary from a white bread simply dusted with flour to give it a rustic look (and fetch a higher price) to a truly hearty loaf that may be a blend of white, whole wheat, and perhaps rye flour with bran added. Comes in every shape. -
53 simplement
plainly, simply
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