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1 Fleet Street
= rue de Londres, dont le nom sert à désigner les grands journaux britanniques;∎ the Fleet Street papers les journaux m pl nationauxBut Morgan said: " The Sun can bluster away about it being a war, and glory in their Lara Logan bazooka exposés selling better than our famine in Malawi investigations, but we're not interested in what they say or what they do. They, like the rest of Fleet Street, do not have a clue what we are up to and that's the way I like it."
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2 scuttle
scuttle ['skʌtəl](run) courir à pas précipités, se précipiter∎ the whole fleet was scuttled toute la flotte a été sabordée3 noun(b) (coal) scuttle seau m à charbonsortir précipitamment
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