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I.v. trans.1. To 'stump', to baffle someone as to an answer.2. Se faire coller (sch.): To get 'ploughed', to fail an exam.4. To pass on (an infection or a disease). Tu m'as collé ta grippe! I've caught your flu!5. Coller quelqu'un au bloc: To 'clap someone in the cooler', to put someone into the punishment cell.II.v. intrans.1. Ça colle! It's on! — It's O.K. by me! -I agree! Non, mon vieux, a ne colle pas! I'm afraid it's not on, old boy.2. Il m'a collé au train: He tailed me—He followed me everywhere.III.v. trans. reflex.1. To 'shack up', to set up home without being married.2. Se coller à la tâche: To 'pitch in', to get down to a task without further ado. Je veux des comptes à jour dès ce soir, collezvous-y! Get to it, I want those books up to date!IV.v. pronom. Se coller quelque chose:a To treat oneself to something.b To land oneself with something unpleasant, to inflict a chore upon oneself. Il s'est collé le plus fort du boulot: It was he who chose to do most of the work. -
123 musique
n. f.1. 'Flannel', flattery. Je l'ai vu venir, lui et sa musique! I could spot him a mile off, him and his soft soap!2. De la musique: A bunch of lies. On lui pose une question et il vous sert de la musique: You ask him a direct question and he gives you a load of bull!3. 'Con', confidence trick. Monter une musique: To set up a rip-off.4. Blackmail. (It is worth mentioning that chantage is the non-colloquial word.)5. 'Fuss', row. Quand il a appris ça, il nous a fait une de ces musiques: When they broke the news to him, he flew off the handle. Il va y avoir de la musique au kiosque! (of marital row): It's going to be a right old ding-dong!6. Baisse un peu la musique! Pipe down, will you! — Don't talk so loudly!7. Connaître la musique! To 'know the ropes', to know one's way around. Pas de danger avec lui, il connaît la musique: I wouldn't worry about him, he knows what to do!8. C'est réglé comme du papier à musique (of project, plan): It's planned to the very last detail. (As detailed and accurate as a musical score.)a To change the subject. Change de musique veux-tu?! I wish you wouldn't harp on!b To change one's tune, to take another stance. Il a vite changé de musique quand il a vu les résultats: When he heard the news, his about-turn was a lesson in instant diplomacy.10. En avant la musique! On with the show! (This jocular, slightly ironical catch phrase is usually uttered when a reluctant go-ahead is given to a project.) -
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n. m.1. Faire du plat:a (in amorous relationship): To 'smooch up to', to sweet-talk.b To 'butter-up', to 'soft-soap', to flatter. Les clients, il faut toujours qu'il leur fasse du plat: When he's there, the customers all get a fair bit of flannel.2. En faire tout un plat (of event, happening): To make a mountain out of a molehill. (There are two possible interpretations where this expression is concerned, according to whether too much is made of a good or bad thing.) Ne pas faire un plat de quelque chose: To play something down.3. Envoyer du plat à quelqu'un: To 'tip someone the wink', to signal discreetly to an accomplice to be on his guard.4. Etre à plat: To be 'knackered', 'buggered', to be exhausted. V'là quinze jours que je me sens à plat'. I've been feeling under the weather these last two weeks. Toute cette histoire m'a vraiment mis à plat! This whole business has taken it out of me!5. Mettre à plat: To 'stash away', to save and hoard money.6. Prendre un plat (Diving): To come a belly-flopper.7. Repiquer au plat:a ( lit): To come back for 'seconds', to have another helping of food.b (fig.): To come back for more. Du jour qu'il a mis les pieds au P.m.U. il n'a cessé de repiquer au plat: Since the day he set foot in the bookie's, it's become a real habit with him.8. Il en fait un de ces plats! (of weather): Phew! What a scorcher!9. Plat de nouilles: 'Drip', 'wet nurk', spineless indivi dual. -
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 UDF
Union pour la Démocratie Française, a centre-right political party founded in 1978 as a party of non-Gaullist conservative supporters of president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Built out of the previous Républicains Indépendants party, the UDF remained the second force on the right of French politics until 1995 when it foundered as members split their loyalties between two presidential hopefuls of the time, Jacques Chirac and Edouard Balladur. Since then, the party lost ground and support, before eventually being wound down by its leader François Bayrou, in order to set up a new centre party, the MoDem or Mouvement Démocratique, in 2007. SeePolitical Parties in France -
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