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81 rabioteur
n. m. Un rabioteur: A 'Mr Fix-it', character whose winning ways always seem to help him come out on top. -
82 rambiner
I.v. trans. To patch up differences between opposing parties. Depuis qu'ils sont mariés, on passe notre temps à les rambiner! Since they got hitched, we seem to spend our time acting as mediators!II.v. trans. reflex. To patch up differences (in many cases, to kiss and make up). -
83 rare
I.adj. Se faire rare: To 'keep a low profile', to steer clear of certain places in order to avoid meeting someone. Tu te fais rare ces jours-ci! We don't seem to see much of you these days!II.adv. Not often, seldom. C'est rare s'il revient si tôt! He doesn't often come back that early! -
84 rigoler
v. intrans.1. To laugh. On a bien rigolé au théâtre hier soir: We laughed all through last night's play.2. To 'pull someone's leg', to 'have someone on', to try and fool someone. Tu veux rigoler! You must be joking! — You can't be serious! Il a dit ça pour rigoler! He just said it for a joke! — He didn't mean it!3. Aimer rigoler: To be fond of sexy capers, to like gallivanting. Les nanas c'est sa vie, il a toujours aimé rigoler: Birds seem to be a way of life with him, he's always been one for a bit of slapand-tickle. -
85 rond
I.n. m.1. 'Brass', 'loot', money. Ça a dû te coûter des ronds! It must have cost you a packet! J'ai eu ça pour deux ronds! I got it for next to nothing! Ne pas avoir un rond: To be 'skint', 'broke', to be penniless. Il n'ajamais le rond! He never has two brass farthings to rub together!2. Ne pas être¼ pour deux ronds: Not to be in the least¼Il n'est pas mechant pour deux ronds! There's not an ounce of meanness in him!3. Faire des ronds dans l'eau: To while away the hours doing bugger-all, to be idle.4. En rester comme deux ronds de flan: To be 'knocked all of a heap', to be 'flabbergasted', to be dumbfounded.5. Le rond (also: la pièce de dix ronds): The arse-hole, the anal sphincter. Prendre du rond: To engage in sodomous intercourse. (The expression se manier le rond refers more generally to the behind and can be translated as to 'put one's skates on', to get a move on, to hurry up.)II.adj. 'Sozzled', 'sloshed', drunk. Il est rond comme une bourrique: He's pissed out of his tiny little mind.III.adv. Tourner rond: To go 'without a hitch', to run smoothly. Depuis qu'on a des commandes, ça tourne rond à l'usine: Since orders have been coming back in again, we seem to be holding our own at the factory. (The expression ça ne tourne pas rond when referring to a person suggests an unbalanced state of mind. Ça ne tourne pas rond avec lui, ces temps-ci! He's seemed to be going off his rocker lately!) -
86 tarte
I.n. f.1. 'Biff', blow (usually a slap in the face).2. C'est de la tarte! 'lt's a piece of cake!'—It's as easy as pie! — It's (dead) simple! Lui faire payer l'addition, ça va pas être de la tarte! Getting him to pay the bill's going to be no doddle!3. Avoir de la tarte (Gambling slang): To have the luck of the devil.II.adj. inv.1. Ugly. Sa dernière nana est d'un tarte! That latest bird of his is some eyesore!2. 'Crummy', 'lousy', worthless.3. (of person): 'Thick', stupid.4. (of happening): Stupid, silly. Il lui arrive toujours des histoires tarte! The daftest things seem to happen to him! -
87 tirer
I.v. trans.1. To 'nick', to 'pinch', to steal (also: voler à la tire).2. To spend time (and quite a lengthy period) doing something unpleasant. Encore quinze jours à tirer et on part en vacances! Another fortnight's grind and it's 'holidays here we come!' Il a tiré cinq piges de dur: He did five years' porridge.3. En voilà une autre de tirée! (of day, month or year): And that's another one gone!4. Tirer la couverture à soi: To get the most of something for oneself (either kudos or worldly goods).5. Tirer l'échelle: To 'call it a day', to have to give up. Après une connerie comme ça, il n'y a plus qu'à tirer l'échelle! After a boob of that magnitude, there doesn't seem to be any point in going any further! (also: tirer la ficelle).6. Tirer la langue: To be near exhaustion (literally to have one's tongue lolling out through sheer fatigue).7. Tirer les vers du nez à quelqu'un: To 'pump' someone, to winkle information out of someone.8. Tirer un coup: To 'have a bang', to 'have it off', to have coition.9. Tirer un fil (of man): To 'splash one's boots', to 'have a pee', to urinate.II.v. intrans.1. To 'dip', to steal.2. Tirer au cul (also: tirer au flanc or au renard): To 'dodge a chore', to steer clear of hard work.3. Tirer sur la ficelle: To 'go it a bit strong', to exaggerate. (There is a possible parallel with the English 'pull the other one!' retort.)III.v. trans. reflex.1. To 'bugger off', to 'slope off', to go away. Bon, il faut que je me tire, demain je bosse de bonne heure! I'll have to drift, I'm on mornings tomorrow!2. Se tirer d'épaisseur: To get out of 'stuck', to get out of trouble.a To 'have a punch-up', to have a fight.b To have a flaming row.4. Ça se tire! We can see the light at the end of the tunnel! — We're nearing the end! (The expression is usually used when referring to times one is not enjoying.) -
88 tristounet
adj. inv. A trifle sad. Ça n'a pas l'air de carburer, tu m'as l'air tristounet ces jours-ci! What's up?! You don't seem your usual jolly self these days! -
89 trompette
n. f.1. 'Mush', 'dial', face (not often a pleasant one).2. 'Conk', 'hooter', nose. (The nez en trompette is the kind of turned-up nose where nostrils seem to feature prominently.)3. 'Gob', 'trap', mouth. (The appellation la trompette du quartier refers to the gossiping busybody whose 'secrets' are soon on everyone's lips.) -
90 tuyauter
I.v. trans. To 'tip the wink to someone', to 'tip someone off', to pass on some inside information. Question bouffetance, il est toujours bien tuyauté! He's always got the low-down on the best eating-places! Désolé, mec, mais on t'a mal tuyauté! I'm sorry, chum, but you seem to have got hold of the wrong end of the stick!II.v. trans. reflex. To get 'genned up', to seek some information about something. J'ai essayé de me tuyauter à son sujet! I tried to find out a bit more about him! -
91 vache
I.n. f.1. (pej.): 'Copper', policeman. Les vaches: 'The fuzz'. (This seemingly injurious appellation, as well as the expression Mort aux vaches!, has nothing to do with the bovine species. Mort aux vaches! is said to have originated after 1870 in occupied AlsaceLorraine where the German military police force, die Wache (the watch), focused discontent among the occupied, and the jeer was originally Mort à la Wache!)2. (also: peau de vache): 'Pig of a character', very awkward so-and-so.3. Coup de pied en vache (fig.): Dirty trick, sly and malicious act.4. Vache à lait: 'Sucker', wealthy dupe, the kind of rich gullible fool who keeps cadgers and hangers-on in food and money.5. Vache laitière (pej.): 'Big fat biddy' (the kind of 'silly moo' whose ample mammaries are her dominant feature).6. Etre plein comme une vache: To be 'pissed to the eye-balls', to be rolling drunk.7. Il pleut comme vache qui pisse! It's raining cats and dogs!8. Bouffer de la vache enragée: To have to rough it, to go through a tough period in life. (The image here is of the impoverished individual whose meat rations, when he can afford them, are of the 'shoe-leather' variety.)9. Oh, la vache! Damn and blast! — Drat! (This exclamation and its English equivalents are equally innocuous and dated.)10. Vache de¼! This colloquial intensifier can either be damning as in Quel vache de temps! What bloody (awful) weather! or loaded with admiration as in C'est un vache de mec! He's one hell of a guy!11. La croix des vaches: Punishment inflicted by old-time pimps on recalcitrant prostitutes or by members of the underworld on a traitor. These deep facial cuts in the shape of a cross made with a razor blade, were encouraged to fester and leave a scar by the application of a chemical.II.adj.1. (of person): Weak, all limp. Je me sens tout vache aujourd'hui! I'm really feeling weak at the knees today!2. (of person): 'Beastly', 'mean', nasty. Son père est drôlement vache avec lui, côté discipline! His father's a right Colonel Blimp! Sois pas vache, prête-moi des sous! Come on, be a pal, lend us some money! Tu es vraiment vache, ces temps-ci! You're a right swine these days!3. (of problem, poser): 'Stinking difficult', awkward and loaded with (intentional) snags. Ses questions d'examen sont toujours vaches! The papers he sets are right stinkers!4. Un vache¼, une vache ¼: An incredible¼(When the adjective precedes the noun, it acts as an intensifier nearly always with a positive connotation. Une vache nana: A smashing bird. Il m'est arrivé une vache histoire! You won't believe what happened to me!)5. Amour vache: Tempestuous sort of love affair (the kind where the partners seem to be exchanging as many blows as kisses). -
92 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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93 sembler
appear, look, seem
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seem — W1S1 [si:m] v [linking verb, not in progressive] [Date: 1100 1200; : Old Norse; Origin: sœma to be appropriate to , from sœmr appropriate ] 1.) to appear to exist or be true, or to have a particular quality ▪ Ann didn t seem very sure. ▪ It seems … Dictionary of contemporary English
seem — [ sim ] verb intransitive never progressive *** 1. ) to appear to be something or appear to have a particular quality: John seems nice. seem (to be) someone/something: Susan seems a very sensible person. seem happy/genuine/relaxed etc. to someone … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
seem´er — seem «seem», intransitive verb. 1. to look like; appear to be: »This apple seemed good but was rotten inside. Does this room seem hot to you? He seemed a very old man. He seemed very strong for his age. 2. to appear to oneself: »I still seem to… … Useful english dictionary
Seem — (s[=e]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Seemed} (s[=e]md); p. pr. & vb. n. {Seeming}.] [OE. semen to seem, to become, befit, AS. s[=e]man to satisfy, pacify; akin to Icel. s[ae]ma to honor, to bear with, conform to, s[ae]mr becoming, fit, s[=o]ma to… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
seem — /seem/, v.i. 1. to appear to be, feel, do, etc.: She seems better this morning. 2. to appear to one s own senses, mind, observation, judgment, etc.: It seems to me that someone is calling. 3. to appear to exist: There seems no need to go now. 4.… … Universalium
seem — seem, look, appear can mean to be as stated in one s view or judgment, but not necessarily in fact Often they are used interchangeably with apparently no difference in meaning {he seems tired} {the students look eager} {the orchestra appeared… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
seem — [sēm] vi. [ME semen, prob. < ON sœma, to conform to (akin to OE seman, to bring to agreement) < IE base * sem > SAME] 1. a) to appear to be; have the look of being [to seem happy] b) to appear; give the impression: usually followed by an … English World dictionary
seem´ing|ness — seem|ing «SEE mihng», adjective, noun. –adj. that appears to be; apparent: »a seeming advantage. SYNONYM(S): ostensible. –n. appearance; likeness: »It was worse in its seeming than in reality. SYNONYM(S): semblance. – … Useful english dictionary
seem´ing|ly — seem|ing «SEE mihng», adjective, noun. –adj. that appears to be; apparent: »a seeming advantage. SYNONYM(S): ostensible. –n. appearance; likeness: »It was worse in its seeming than in reality. SYNONYM(S): semblance. – … Useful english dictionary
seem|ing — «SEE mihng», adjective, noun. –adj. that appears to be; apparent: »a seeming advantage. SYNONYM(S): ostensible. –n. appearance; likeness: »It was worse in its seeming than in reality. SYNONYM(S): semblance. – … Useful english dictionary
Seem — Seem, v. t. To befit; to beseem. [Obs.] Spenser. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
