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41 équivaloir
équivaloir [ekivalwaʀ]➭ TABLE 29 intransitive verbto be equivalent (à to)• ça équivaut à dire que... it amounts to saying that...* * *ekivalwaʀverbe transitif indirectéquivaloir à — to be equivalent to [quantité]; to amount to [effet]; to be tantamount to [effet négatif]
* * *ekivalwaʀ vtéquivaloir à (= être égal à) — to be equivalent to, (= représenter) to amount to
* * *équivaloir verb table: valoirA équivaloir à vtr ind to be equivalent to [quantité]; to amount to [effet]; to be tantamount to [effet négatif]; ça équivaut à un refus/à refuser it's tantamount to a refusal/to refusing.B s'équivaloir○ vpr les deux solutions s'équivalent there isn't much to choose between the two solutions; ça s'équivaut! it's six of one and half a dozen of the other.[ekivalwar]équivaloir à verbe plus préposition[être égal à] to be equal ou equivalent to[revenir à] to amount to————————s'équivaloir verbe pronominal (emploi réciproque) -
42 caudines
caudines adj fpl fourches caudines Caudine Forks.passer sous les fourches caudines to suffer a humiliating defeat. -
43 affilée
d'affilée dafile locution adverbiale in a rowparler trois heures d'affilée — [amis] to talk nonstop for three hours; [politiciens, directeur] to talk for three hours without a break
* * *afiled'affilée adv
Il a travaillé douze heures d'affilée. — He worked 12 hours without a break.
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44 battre
v. trans. & intrans.1. Battre quelqu'un à plate(s) couture(s): To 'beat someone hollow', to defeat someone convincingly.2. Battre quelqu'un comme plâtre: To give someone a good thrashing.3. To tell 'tall stories', to fib, to lie.4. Battre a Niort: To deny something vehemently. Il battait à Niort que c'était pas lui le coupable: He swore blind he was innocent.5. Battre comtois:a To play dumb, to feign ignorance.b To state untruths in order to get to the truth.6. Battre le dingue: To feign insanity in order to avoid a sentence on the grounds of diminished responsibility.7. Battre son quart (of prostitute): To be out soliciting. -
45 froc
n. m.1. 'Trews', trousers.2. Baisser son froc: To 'funk out', to give in under duress. (This pejorative expression relates to a humiliating defeat.) -
46 frottée
n. f.1. 'Drubbing', thrashing.2. (fig.): Painful and humiliating defeat. En finale de la Coupe, on vous a filé une sacrée frottée: Last Cup Final, we beat the living daylights out of you! -
47 waterloo
n. m.1. Crushing and unexpected setback.2. Patch of bad luck. On était en plein waterloo! It was just one thing after another! (Obviously the heavy military defeat inflicted on Napoleon on 18 June 1815 is reflected in the colloquial meanings of the word. The same can be said of Trafalgar.) -
48 Commune de Paris
Revolutionary proto-communist administration that governed Paris for two months in 1871, following French defeat in the Franco-Prussian war. The people running the Commune de Paris were known as Communards, not Communists.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Commune de Paris
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49 Cresson, Edith
(born 1934)Prime minister of France 1991-1992. The first (and only) woman to have been appointed Prime minister of France, Edith Cresson is also the shortest-serving prime minister of the Fifth Republic. As prime minister, she rapidly lost popularity, and led the Socialists to a resounding defeat in the 1992 regional elections. She was later appointed European commissioner, but resigned four years later amid allegations of corruption directed against her personally, and against the Santer commission, of which she was a member. In 2006, the European court of Justice found her guilty of favouritism during her time in office.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Cresson, Edith
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50 Giscard d'Estaing, Valéry
(adj. Giscardien)Born 1926President of France from 1974 to 1981. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing succeed Georges Pompidou as French president, thereby putting an end to 16 years of Gaullist presidency. Though a conservative, Giscard was from the UDF, the centre right party in the conservative coalition of the time.On becoming president, Giscard promised change after a decade and a half of Gaullist rule: more Atlanticist and pro-European than previous presidents, he nevertheless failed to embody the change that many people wanted, and was not reelected for a second term. He tried to give the French presidency more popular appeal than it previously enjoyed, and make it seem closer to ordinary Frenchmen, but his changes were more symbolic than real, and included walking down the Champs Elysées in a sweater rather than a suit, and inviting himself to dinner with ordinary French families from time to time.After his defeat at the 1981 Presidential election, Giscard returned to politics as an ordinary Député (MP), and also became strongly involved in local politics in his region, the Auvergne, becoming President of the Regional Council from 1986 to 2004.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Giscard d'Estaing, Valéry
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51 Mitterrand, François
(adj. Mittérandiste)(1916 - 1996)Françoisz Mitterrand was the longest serving French president under the Fifth Republic. Mitterrand, a Socialist, served two full terms in office, from 1981 to 1995. He was also the oldest president of the Fifth republic, leaving the job at the age of 78. History will judge how successful Mitterrand was; adulated by his supporters, he was much maligned by his political opponents; but for the second period of both his terms, he was obliged to appoint a Prime Minister from the conservative opposition (leading to a state of " cohabitation" (q.v.)), following mid-term rejections of his socialist administrations. He will perhaps be remembered as an indecisive president; from 1981 to 1983, he oversaw left-wing policies, including the nationalisation of some banks and other major companies; but from 1983 onwards, this policy went into reverse, and from then on state companies were progressively privatized. He did much to free France from the tight constrictions of the Gaullist state, abolishing the death penalty and removing state control of the media; but he was party to a notorious act of international piracy, the sinking of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in the harbour at Auckland, New Zealand, in which a Greenpeace activist was killed.Reelected in 1988, he pledged to follow a policy that was neither too left, nor too right. Known as the " ni-ni" policy ("neither nor" policy), this was frequently interpreted as being tantamount to no policy at all, and led to a crushing defeat for the Socialists in the 1993 general elections, as France's economic situation declined.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Mitterrand, François
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52 Royal , Ségolène
Socialist politician, former députée and former minister, currently Présidente of the Poitou-Charentes regional council. Ségolène Royal was the unsuccessful Socialist candidate in the 2007 French presidential election, that was won by Nicolas Sarkozy. She obtained 47% of the vote in the runoff. In 2007, she briefly managed to reunite a large part of the factious Socialist party behind her candidacy, but failed to keep up the momentum after defeat. In 2008, she was beaten by Martine Aubry in the leadership contest for the Socialist Party. Only a handful of votes separated the two contestants, and there was a recount. Many of Royal's supporters refused to accept the final verdict, and accusations of ballot rigging continued to be made well into 2009.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Royal , Ségolène
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53 battre
beat, break, cream, defeat, pulsate, pulse, struggle, thrash, thresh, throb, whisk -
54 battre
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55 défaite
COS disfatta, dirotta, scunfittaEN defeat, rout -
56 vaincre
COS vinceEN to conquer, to defeat
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