#156666 - 02/12/08 08:01 PM
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Heaven forbid you end up alone and don't know why
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Cool actions! You know in Latin languages, hand signals are very important!!
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#156674 - 02/12/08 08:30 PM
Re: Un Mot par Jour
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Panning for gold
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poil (pwal), masculine noun
hair, fur
Expressions:
à poil (familiar) stark naked
Au poil Très bien, very well, just fine!
Avoir un poil dans la main , to be lazy. (lit. to have a hair on the hand.)
There is a geste, gesture which can go with that expression. To say that someone is lazy, hold out your hand, pull on an imaginary hair growing out of it, and say, "Il a un poil dans la main."  I like that one! 
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#156794 - 02/13/08 10:37 PM
Re: Un Mot par Jour
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Yeah, their bad hair days are one level up from ours, I reckon!
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#156865 - 02/14/08 08:23 PM
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 amour , masculine noun
love
"On ne badine pas avec l'amour."
Alfred de Musset
"One does not trifle with love."
The verb badiner is to jest, trifle, make sport of, or to tease. It is close to bantering, in making light talk, badinage.
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#156942 - 02/15/08 07:40 PM
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distrait (dees-streh) adjectif, participe passé du verbe distraire, Féminin distraite
absent-minded, distracted, inattentive, listless
"Etre sur un petit nuage"
"to be on a little cloud" The American equivilent is to have ones 'head in the clouds.'
related:
distrayant (dees-streh-yahng), participe présent de distraire
diverting, entertaining
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#157639 - 02/18/08 05:31 PM
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gonfler, verbe intransitif, to swell, puff up
Sens 1 Augmenter de volume. Ex Le gâteau a bien gonflé(the cake has risen nicely). Synonyme grossir(to get bigger) Anglais to swell
gonfler, verbe transitif, to blow up, to swell, to exagerate
Sens 1 Remplir une chose d'air ou de gaz (to fill something with air or gas). Ex Gonfler un ballon. Anglais to blow up
Sens 2 Faire augmenter de volume. Ex La pluie a gonflé le bois (the rain has swelled the wood). Synonyme grossir Anglais to swell
Sens 3 Exagérer. Ex Les résultats ont été gonflés (the results have been exaggerated). Synonyme accroître(to increase) Anglais to exaggerate
Qu'est-ce qu'un adulte ? Un enfant gonflé d'âge. -Simone de BEAUVOIR, La Femme rompue, L'âge de discrétion
What is an adult? A child filled with age. [or swelled, puffed up, blown up with age! ]
sources: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gonflerhttp://www.linternaute.com/dictionnaire/fr/definition/gonfler/http://french.about.com/library/quotes/bl-quote-feb.htm
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#157781 - 02/19/08 11:44 PM
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pouce , nom masculin
1. thumb Le plus gros et le plus court des doigts de la main, opposable aux autres doigts [Anatomie]. Synonyme doigt
(The largest and shortest of digits on the hand, opposable to the others.)
2. big toe Gros orteil [Anatomie]. Synonyme gros
3. inch Ancienne mesure de 2,54 cm de longueur, encore couramment utilisée dans les pays anglo-saxons .
("Ancient measure, 2.54 cm. in length, still currently used by anglo-saxon countries.")
4. a very small amount of something Très petite quantité [Figuré]. Ex Céder un pouce de territoire. Synonyme quantité
(Ex. "To yield 'a thumb' of territory.")
idioms, locutions:
mettre les pouces
Sens Céder après avoir résisté longtemps. Synonyme abandonner
(meaning: "to yield after having resisted a longtime. synonym to abandon, (give up, withdraw).")
Donner un coup de pouce
to intercede or intervene on behalf of someone; to take action to help someone.
Dîner sur le pouce
to eat rapidly
The expression appeared in the XIXe century and refers to the thumb which one uses alot when a knife and sections of bread are handled, in other words when a fast meal is taken.
Sources: dictionary.com ; http://www.linternaute.com
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#157793 - 02/20/08 12:26 AM
Re: Un Mot par Jour
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Céder après avoir résisté longtemps. In English we would use our thumbs to signify the opposite, after we've MADE someone give up!
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