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avoir du plomb dans l'aileto be in bad shapeRate it:

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le ministère a du plomb dans l'aileThe ministry is nearing its end, is winged.Rate it:

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when you're hot, you're hot. when you're not, you're notYou're either hot or you're not. There's no in between.Rate it:

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il en a dans l'aileHe is winged (hurt).Rate it:

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forgetting the base, forgetting the root, forgetting number 'one, forgetting the alphabet 'a' 1'Generally this era, when children learn and grow up as adults, they think the parents know nothing they are the entire encyclopedia. Disdaining parents education and their university degrees with disrespectful manner.Rate it:

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péter un plombTo get angry, to shit a brickRate it:

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battre de l'aileto go into decline, to wane; to be on the rocks, on the skidsRate it:

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c'est la plus belle plume de son aile (or, le plus beau fleuron de sa couronne)It is the finest gem of his crown.Rate it:

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il ne bat plus que d'une aileHe is almost ruined; He is on his last legs.Rate it:

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j'en tirerai pied ou aileI will get something out of it.Rate it:

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péter un plombUsed other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see péter un plomb.Rate it:

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péter un plombTo go crazyRate it:

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avoir dans la peauto be infatuated with; to have a crush onRate it:

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avoir du foin dans ses bottesTo be well off.Rate it:

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avoir l'estomac dans les talonsTo be as hungry as a hunter.Rate it:

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avoir l'estomac dans les talonsTo be extremely hungry.Rate it:

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avoir la mort dans l'âmeTo be grieved to death; To be overwhelmed with grief.Rate it:

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avoir la tête dans le culto be knackered; to feel like shitRate it:

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avoir la tête dans les nuagesto have one's head in the cloudsRate it:

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avoir le compas dans l'œilTo have a good eye for distances.Rate it:

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avoir le compas dans l'œil (fam.)To have a good eye for distances.Rate it:

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avoir un chat dans la gorgeTo have phlegm (or, frog) in the throat; To be hoarse.Rate it:

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avoir un poil dans la mainTo be very lazy (so that hair grows on the palm of the hand).Rate it:

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avoir une araignée dans le (or, au) plafondTo have a bee in one’s bonnet.Rate it:

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il y a assez à faire de regarder ce qui cuit dans sa marmite sans aller regarder ce qui cuit dans celle du voisinAu lieu de s'occuper des problèmes des autres, mieux vaut s'occuper des siens d'abord.Rate it:

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il y a assez à faire de regarder ce qui cuit dans sa marmite, sans aller regarder ce qui cuit dans celle du voisinIl vaut mieux s’occuper de ses affaires que de celles d’autrui.Rate it:

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rien dans les mains, rien dans les pochesSe dit pour indiquer qu’on a les mains et les poches vides.Rate it:

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can't put the words back into one's mouth fast enoughThis phrase is often said after someone said something they shouldn't have said as a way of conveying regret for having said it.Rate it:

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pickin' and grinnin'a country way of saying "playing music"Rate it:

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i'll be a monkey's uncle(often preceded by well) expressing complete surprise or disbeliefRate it:

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as she's as cold as a witchscold as a witch's tit!Very, very cold!!Rate it:

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don't count your chickens before they're hatchedYou should not count on something before it happens.Rate it:

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if it ain't chicken, it's feathersthat's life; there are always problemsRate it:

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if you can't take it, don't dish it outdon't say or do something you wouldn't want said or done to youRate it:

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puddin' tame. ask me again and i'll tell you the same.An impertinent response to being asked "what is your name?"; a response indicating that the speaker does not want to reveal their real name.Rate it:

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wear one's heart on one's sleeveTo be extremely transparent, open, or forthright about one's emotion or what is in one's heart; often when this is said, it is said when it is more than the listener wants or needs to hear about it--so it is often said in a negative way or with a negative connotationRate it:

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when you're up to your ass in alligators, it's easy to forget your goal was to drain the swampYou can't complete the a task if more urgent/immediate necessities take priorityRate it:

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where there's smoke, there's firewhen two things are usually together and you find one, you will find the otherRate it:

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you ain't seen nothin' yetsomething is even betterRate it:

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avoir la vie dure1. To have a hard time. 2. To have nine lives.Rate it:

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avoir les yeux battusTo look tired about the eyes.Rate it:

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avoir le cafard^ Charles Baudelaire , “La Volupté”, in Les Fleurs du mal: “Parfois il prend, sachant mon grand amour de l’Art, / La forme de la plus séduisante des femmes, / Et, sous de spécieux prétextes de cafard, / Accoutume ma lèvre à des philtres infâmes.”Rate it:

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avoir une brioche au fourhave a bun in the ovenRate it:

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avoir les jambes en cotonto be weak and shaky on one's legs; to be jelly-leggedRate it:

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avoir affaireTo be occupied.Rate it:

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avoir affaire à quelqu'unTo have to speak to (to deal with) a person.Rate it:

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avoir affaire de quelqu'unTo need a person.Rate it:

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avoir bon bec (fam.)To be a chatterbox; To speak well; To be able to answer back.Rate it:

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avoir d'une chose à revendreTo have more than enough of a thing.Rate it:

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avoir de quoi (pop.)To be in easy circumstances.Rate it:

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