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121 donner
I.v. trans.1. To inform on, to denounce someone.2. (Cards): To deal. C'est à vous de donner. It's your turn to deal. (In this case the verb is only transitive by implication.)3. C'est donné! (iron.): It's cheap at the price! — I wouldn't call that expensive!4. On t'en donnera! (iron.): You'll be lucky! — You're setting your sights a bit high!II.v. intrans.1. Donner dans:a (also: donner dans le panneau): To 'fall for something hook, line and sinker', to be totally fooled by a ploy.b To become, to undergo a change of character. Depuis la mort de sa femme, il donne dans le grincheux: He's become a real misery guts since his missus passed away.2. Donner à pleins tubes: To give one's all, to make an all-out effort.III.v. trans. reflex.1. S'en donner (of pleasurable activity): To 'get some in', to get one's fill. On va s'en donner du bon temps! We're going to let our hair down!2. Se donner peur: To panic without reason.IV.v. pronom. Se la donner. To have one's suspicions, to be 'cagey', to be wary about something. On se la donnait qu'il était flic: It was thought he might be a cop working undercover. -
122 museau
n. m.1. 'Mush', 'dial', face.2. 'Kisser', 'gob', mouth.3. 'Hooter', 'conk', nose. (The reason for the three anatomical definitions lies in the non-colloquial nature of the word where animals are concerned.)4. Une fricassée de museau: A 'smooch-session' (one peppered with passionate kisses). -
123 tennis-barbe
n. m. This popular student pastime consists in trying to spot as many bearded men as possible in the street. The reason it is called tennis-barbe is that the scoring is done on the lines of the game of tennis: 15-30-40-deuce, etc. -
124 walk-over
n. m. 'Push-over', easy task. (The word stems from the languagc of horse-racing, a walk-over being a race where for one reason or another only one contender is left, who to win must complete the course unopposed.) -
125 Contrat Première Embauche
, CPEThe CPE was introduced by the Villepin government in 2006, in an attempt to reduce France's high levels of youth unemployment. It created a new form of work contract for young people, with less guarantees of job security than normal French work contracts. Left-wing student unions, encouraged by opposition parties, protested vigorously against the new contract, calling it discriminatory against youth, and an attack on the acquired social rights of employees. It was portrayed as a contract by which employers would be free to sack young employees without reason. In scenes reminiscent of 1968 (seesoixante- huit), students closed down a number of universities and set up barricades. After initially refusing to give in, the government eventually decided to scrap the CPE which by the, according to opinion polls, had become a very unpopular plan.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Contrat Première Embauche
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126 Minitel
A first generation computerised videotext system, the Minitel briefly put France into the position of world leader in videotext access. Launched in 1982, the Minitel system rapidly entered the majority of French households and offices thanks to a masterly government policy of offering the basic terminals free to all telephone subscribers. Several years before the Internet explosion, the Minitel offered French telephone subscribers free access to a range of information services, including national telephone directories; it also offered a number of pay-per-view services, receipts from which were designed to help pay back the investment in the system. However, the success of the Minitel was also instrumental in slowing down France's uptake of the Internet. While the government remained keen to protect and promote this French technological success in the face of competition from a foreign system, many Minitel service providers also had a good reason to defend the system too. Provision of information via the Minitel, charged by the second, rapidly became seen as a lucrative activity (notably for the " Minitel rose" sites) - far more so than via Internet, where most general information is provided free of charge to the viewer. This economic disincentive meant that many major French providers of Information, such as the SNCF, were reluctant to replace, or even complement, slow but profit-making Minitel services by faster free Internet services - thus delaying French uptake of the Internet.Minitel services were completely phased out in 2011.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Minitel
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127 Parc Naturel Régional
A regional area of outstanding natural beauty, or environmental value. Natural Regional Parks are frequently but erroneously described as National Parks; it is however true to say that the environmental constraints and legislation applied in many Natural Regional Parks are similar to those applied in the peripheral areas of National Parks, or in non-wilderness national parks in other countries (such as Exmoor in the U.K.). There is no intrinsic reason why the "Cevennes" hills should have the status of National Park, but the "Parc des Volcans" just north of them be designated as a regional park; but that is the way it is. As "regional parks", the PNRs are the responsibility of the regions, not of the state.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Parc Naturel Régional
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128 capable d'entendre raison
Dictionnaire juridique, politique, économique et financier > capable d'entendre raison
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