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1 prune
n. f.1. 'Slug', bullet. Il s'est cloqué une prune dans la tirelire: He shot himself through the nut.2. 'Biff', blow. Avoir de la prune: To pack a punch.3. 'Ticket', motoring fine. Se faire coller une prune: To 'get booked', to get fined.4. (pl.): 'Nuts', 'balls', testicles.5. Pour des prunes: 'For sweet F.A.', for nothing, in vain. On a bossé quinze jours et tout ça pour des prunes! We slogged our guts out for a fortnight and got fuck-all for our troubles! Ça a compte pour des prunes! It counts for nothing!6. Des prunes! No dice! — Nothing doing! — Certainly not!7. Poser une prune: To 'have a crap', to 'shit', to defecate. -
2 société
société [sɔsjete]1. feminine nouna. ( = groupe, communauté) society• la société de consommation/de loisirs the consumer/leisure society• société secrète/savante secret/learned society• la Société protectrice des animaux ≈ the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Brit), ≈ the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (US)c. ( = firme) company2. compounds► société anonyme ≈ limited (liability) company ; (ouverte au public) ≈ public limited company━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━* * *sɔsjete1) gén, Sociologie society2) ( groupe spécifique) society3) ( entreprise) company4) ( vie mondaine) societyla bonne/haute société — polite/high society
5) ( compagnie) fml company, society sout* * *sɔsjete nl'archipel de la Société — the Society Islands, the Society Archipelago
* * *société nf2 ( communauté humaine) society; la place de l'enfant dans la société the place of children in society;3 ( groupe humain) society; les sociétés primitives/modernes primitive/modern societies; dans notre société in our society;4 ( groupe spécifique) society; société savante/secrète learned/secret society; société d'écrivains/d'artistes writers'/artists' society; société de chasse/pêche/tir hunting/angling/shooting club;5 Ind, Jur, Fin company; constituer une société to set up a company; société d'emballage/de nettoyage packaging/cleaning company;6 ( vie mondaine) society; en société in society; faire ses débuts dans la société to make one's debut in society; la bonne/haute société polite/high society;7 ( compagnie) company, society sout; rechercher la société de qn to seek sb's company; dans la société de qn in sb's company.société d'abondance affluent society; société par actions Jur, Fin joint stock company; société anonyme, SA public company; société d'assistance Assur motoring organization GB, automobile club; société de Bourse Fin broking firm; société civile Sociol society; Jur, Fin non-trading company; société civile immobilière, SCI investment company that rents out property; société commerciale Jur, Fin business firm; société de consommation consumer society; société d'économie mixte semi-public company; société écran dummy company; société d'exploitation development company; société fiduciaire trust company; société d'investissement investment company; société en nom collectif, SNC general partnership; société à responsabilité limitée, SARL private company; société de services service company; société à succursales multiples chain store; Société de Jésus Relig Society of Jesus; Société des Nations, SDN Hist League of Nations.[sɔsjete] nom féminin1. SOCIOLOGIE4. [catégorie de gens] societycela ne se fait pas dans la bonne société it's not done in good company ou in the best societysociété littéraire/savante literary/learned societyla Société des Amis the Society of Friends, the Quakersla Société protectrice des animaux → link=SPA SPAsociété (de capitaux) par actions (à responsabilité limitée) (limited liability) joint-stock companysociété civile professionnelle professional ou non-trading partnershipsociété en commandite simple ≃ general partnershipsociété d'investissement à capital variable → link=SICAV SICAVsociété en nom collectif ≃ (unlimited) private companysociété à responsabilité limitée ≃ limited liability companySociété nationale des chemins de fer français → link=SNCF SNCF7. BANQUEsociété financière/de crédit finance/credit company8. DROIT9. INFORMATIQUE10. LOISIRS -
3 corde
n. f.1. Parler de corde dans la maison d'un pendu: To 'put one's foot in it', to mention the unmentionable.2. Avoir de la corde de pendu: To have the luck of the devil. (Popular belief has it that a piece of the tragic rope acts as a good luck charm.)3. Se mettre la corde au cou: To 'put on the ball and chain', to 'get hitched', to get married.4. Ça sent la corde! I can smell a rat! — It looks fishy (suspicious) to me!5. Il pleut des cordes: 'It's pissing down'—'It's raining cats and dogs'—It's pouring (also: il pleut des hallebardes).6. Faire des cordes pour la marine: To 'crap', to 'shit', to defecate.7. Ne tirez pas trop sur la corde ( avec moi): Don't push me too far (if you know what's good for you).8. Ça n'est pas dans mes cordes (also: ça ne rentre pas dans mes cordes): It's not (really) my line—I don't think I'm the right person for this.9. Prendre un virage a la corde (Motoring, cycling): To cut a corner close, to cut a corner fine. -
4 deuche
n. f. (abbr. deux-chevaux): Citroen 2 CV motor car. (A not uncommon misconception is that this famous 'sit-up-and-beg' French motoring contraption is powered only by a 2 hp engine. In fact, for taxation purposes in France, road fund licences are issued for vehicles on the basis of 'chevaux fiscaux'. These units bear no relation to the traditional concept of brake horse-power.) -
5 pressé
presse [pʀεs]feminine nouna. ( = institution) press• presse féminine/automobile women's/car magazines• avoir bonne/mauvaise presse to be well/badly thought of• agence/conférence de presse press agency/conferenceb. ( = machine) press* * *pʀɛs
1.
1) ( journaux) press; ( journalistes) press; ( magazines) magazines (pl)avoir bonne/mauvaise presse — fig to be well/not well thought of ( auprès de among)
2) ( machine à presser) press3) ( machine à imprimer) pressmettre sous presse — to send [something] to press
‘sous presse’ — ‘in preparation’
2.
presses nom féminin pluriel ( maison d'édition) press (sg)* * *pʀɛs nf1) (= média) press2) (= affluence)* * *A nf1 ( journaux) press; ( journalistes) press; ( magazines) magazines (pl); presse écrite/économique written/economic press; article de presse press article; présenter à or devant la presse to present to the press; convoquer la presse to summon the press; presse automobile/féminine/du cœur motoring GB ou car US/women's/romantic magazines; avoir bonne/mauvaise presse to be well/not well thought of (auprès among); que dit la presse? what do the papers say?; ⇒ grand;2 ( machine à presser) press; presse hydraulique/de 100 tonnes hydraulic/100-ton press; presse à la main/à vis/mécanique hand/screw/power press; presse à relier/à emboutir holding/stamping press;3 ( machine à imprimer) press; presse à cylindres or rotative cylinder press; presse à bras hand press; presse à platine platen press; mettre sous presse to send [sth] off to press; être mis sous presse to go to press; ‘sous presse’ ‘in preparation’;4 ( hâte) dans les moments de presse when things get busy.1. [personne]être pressé to be pressed for time, to be in a hurry ou rushtu n'as pas l'air pressé de la revoir you seem in no hurry ou you don't seem eager to see her again2. [précipité - démarche, geste] hurried3. [urgent - réparation, achat] urgentil n'a rien trouvé de plus pressé que d'aller tout raconter à sa femme he wasted no time in telling his wife the whole storyle plus pressé, c'est de prévenir son mari the first thing to do is to tell her husband[agrume] freshly squeezed -
6 contredanse
n. f. (corr. contravention): 'Ticket', traffic fine. Flanquer une contredanse: To book someone for a motoring offence. -
7 encadrer
v. trans.1. To 'pitch into', to 'go for', to attack.2. (Motoring): To crash into, to collide with. Il a encadré un feu rouge: He crashed into some traffic lights.3. Ne pas pouvoir encadrer quelqu'un: To be unable to stomach someone. J'peux pas 'l'encadrer! I can't stand the sight of him!4. Tu peux (te) lefaire encadrer! (iron.): You know what you can do with it?! (Stuff it up your jumper!) -
8 froid
n. m.1. Froid de canard: 'Brass monkey weather', icy conditions.2. Etre en froid: Not to be on speaking terms. V'là quinze jours qu'ils sont en froid: They've been ignoring each other for a fortnight now.3. Battre ( quelqu'un) à froid: To 'give someone the cold shoulder', to avoid someone with ostentation.4. Démarrer à froid: To 'get down to the nitty-gritty' straight away, to get down to the business in hand without wasting any time. (The expression originates in the language of motoring where it refers to the starting-up of a cold engine.)
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