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cent ans bannière, cent ans civière	Ce proverbe signifie que l'on peut déchoir de la plus haute noblesse.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cent heures de chagrin ne payent pas un sou de dettes	On n’avance à rien en s’abandonnant à la tristesse.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
twenty-five cent word	An uncommon word, often used in place of a more common one with the intent to appear sophisticated.	Rate it: (3.50 / 2 votes)
cent ans de chagrin ne paient pas un sou de dettes	Worrying will not pay your debts.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cent livres de chagrin ne payent pas un sou de dettes	On n’avance à rien en s’abandonnant à la tristesse.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
en un mot comme en cent	Once and for all.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
être aux cent coups	To be half mad (distracted) with anxiety; To be in the greatest difficulties.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
faire les cent coups	To amuse oneself noisily; To play all sorts of tricks.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
il a fait de cent sous quatre livres, et de quatre livres rien	He has brought his noble to ninepence, and his ninepence to nothing.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
je vous le donne en cent	I bet you 100 to 1 you will not guess it.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
mettez cent francs	Make it £4.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
parier il y a cent (or, gros) à parier qu'ils ne reviendront pas	The odds are that they will not come back.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
un point à temps en épargne cent	A stitch in time saves nine.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
binis centesimis fenerari	to lend at 24 per cent.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
centesimae (sc. usurae) (Att. 5. 21. 11)	interest at 1 per cent per month, 12 per cent per annum.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
centesimis cum anatocismo contentum esse (Att. 5. 21. 12)	to be content with 12 per cent at compound interest.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fenus ex triente Id. Quint. factum erat bessibus (Att. 4. 15. 7)	the rate of interest has gone up from 4 per cent to 8 per cent.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Nueva Planta	Decretos promulgados por el rey de España Felipe V por los cuales quedaban abolidos los privilegios de Valencia, Corona de Aragón, Mallorca. En Cataluña se suprimió la Diputació y el Consell de Cent de Barcelona.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
quadrantes usurae	3 per cent (a quarter of centesima).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
quaternas centesimas postulare (Att. 5. 21. 11)	to demand 48 per cent.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
quincunces usurae	5 per cent.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
quincunx (Pers. 5. 149)	5 per cent.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
semisses	6 per cent (i.e. if for 100 denarii, asses, one pays half a denarius, half an as per month).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
semissibus magna copia est	money is plentiful at 6 per cent.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
ternae centesimae	36 per cent per annum.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
trientes or trientariae usurae (Att. 4. 15)	4 per cent.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
usurae semisses (Jurists)	6 per cent.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
usurae semissium (Colum.)	6 per cent.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)