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il fait un vent à décorner (or, écorner) un bœufThere is a wind enough to blow one’s head off.Rate it:

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il fait un vent à écorner (or, décorner) un bœufThe wind is enough to blow one’s head off.Rate it:

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il lui a rendu la monnaie de sa pièceHe paid him back in his own coin.Rate it:

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il s'est donné un tour de reinsHe sprained his back.Rate it:

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il tomba les quatre fers en l'air(lit.) He fell on his back; (fig.) He was struck all of a heap.Rate it:

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in viam reducere aliquemto bring a person back to the right way.Rate it:

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je lui ai rendu le changeI paid him back in his own coin. Rate it:

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kick against the pricksTo kick back (of an animal etc.) against being goadedRate it:

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kick itTo kick back.Rate it:

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la goutte d'eau qui fait déborder le vasethe straw that broke the camel's backRate it:

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lay toTo turn towards the wind so that the boat stopsRate it:

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le vin est tiré, il faut le boireYou have gone too far now to draw back; In for a penny, in for a pound.Rate it:

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les jeux sont faitsThings have reached an irreversible point; you cannot go back now that you have done something.Rate it:

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les jeux sont faitsThings have reached an irreversible point; you cannot go back now that you have done something.Rate it:

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les observations glissent sur lui comme sur une cuirasseBlame slips off him as water off a duck’s back.Rate it:

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lick one's woundsHe's just off licking his wounds. He'll be back to try again.Rate it:

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lighten upTo ease up; back off; slow down.Rate it:

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longe, alte (longius, altius) repetere (either absolute or ab aliqua re)to go a long way back (in narrative).Rate it:

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luff upTo turn towards the wind so that the sails flapRate it:

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make a legTo make a deep bow with the right leg drawn back.Rate it:

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make it up toto pay back, to return someone a previous good deed.Rate it:

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mettre en bouteilleto tease, to wind up, to joshRate it:

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navem retro inhibere (Att. 13. 21)to back water.Rate it:

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ne voilà-t-il pas qu'il est revenuWho should come back but he?Rate it:

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nose in the airThe body language most of us have experienced when a friend passes you in public and with head tilted back and nose in the air gives you a first class snub!Rate it:

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nosebleed seatA seat high in the back of bleachers, stands, or the balcony at a theater.Rate it:

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nosebleed sectionThe seats high in the back of bleachers, stands, or the balcony at a theater or stadium.Rate it:

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nous avons brûlé nos vaisseauxThere is no going back now; We mean to fight to the last.Rate it:

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parier il y a cent (or, gros) à parier qu'ils ne reviendront pasThe odds are that they will not come back.Rate it:

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pif that troon!Troon: A irritating, aggravating, rude entity, who's sole purpose is to irritate & harass, unsuspecting, innocent people. A purposeful frustrating annoyer. "Pif"{3-step}: A special forces teckneik. A sheath knive issued to silently eliminate a enemy sentinel. 1:Approaching the enemy silently from the rear, stricking the back of the knees, as to buckle them, while cupping the mouth & cutting the throat & jugular vien simotancely. 2:Next immediately using the hand holding your knife, you in a upward thrust pierce the base of the skull fully sinking the length of blade & twist or jiggle. 3: Imeadiatly removing and reversing the blade to a downward position raming it down the spinelcoard & repeat the twist or jiggle. Done correctly it should take 3 seconds or less, with no scream, twitching or jerking of the enemy guard, or solder. Plop, drop, done, done, on to the next one! " Troon Pifing". The prefured "Pif" Knife is a Double edged Military Commando style sheath knife. "Pif that Troon!"Rate it:

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pipeMeanings relating to a wind instrument.Rate it:

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pocket dialA situation in which one's cellphone makes a call from one's back pocket when its buttons are inadvertently pressed.Rate it:

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potato skinsAn appetizer made by halving a baked potato, scooping out most of the inside, mixing that with cheese, sour cream, and chives and placing that mixture back into the potato skin then baking until crisp.Rate it:

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pull out all the stopsTo reserve or hold back nothing.Rate it:

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push offTo delay, postpone, put off, push back.Rate it:

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r.b atchuRight back at youRate it:

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raise the roofTo cause a commotion, as by boisterous celebrating or loud complaining; to make considerable noise.2008 Oct. 15, Leslie Ferenc, "Voters opt for stability of Guarnieri" in the Toronto Star (Canada)Jubilant Liberal supporters raised the roof of a Mississauga restaurant after incumbent Albina Guarnieri was swept back into office for her seventh term.Rate it:

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rake over old coalsTo bring back old problems; to dig up old trouble.Rate it:

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reap the whirlwindEllipsis of sow the wind, reap the whirlwindRate it:

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rebrousser cheminTo retrace one's steps, to turn back.Rate it:

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rendre gorgeTo have to pay back money unjustly acquired; To disgorge one’s ill-gotten gains.Rate it:

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repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibusto go back to the remote ages.Rate it:

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return to formTo go back to a better, original state.Rate it:

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return to one's muttonsto get back to the business at hand.Rate it:

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revenir de loin1. To come back from a distant place. 2. To recover from a very severe illness.Rate it:

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roll overTo increment, especially back to an initial value.Rate it:

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round toTo turn the head of a ship toward the wind.Rate it:

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saddleA seat (tack) for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animalRate it:

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saddleAn item of harness (harness saddle) placed on the back of a horse or other animalRate it:

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serve outTo pay back; to have one's revenge on.Rate it:

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