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the slave trader
the slave ship

le négrier
le bateau négrier

I'm not kidding
- to kid, to fool around (both QC)

Je niaise pas.
- niaiser (QC)

Vaccination is not arousing the expected passion.
- the passion (not "la passion")

La vaccination ne suscite pas l'engouement espéré.
- (le) engouement

he anticipates with some dismay
- the disarray, the dismay

il anticipe avec un certain désarroi
- le désarroi (2)

to outdo one's competitors
They didn't want to be outdone.
Hint: expression arising from pawn promotion in chess.

damer le pion a ses concurrents
Ils ne voulaient pas se faire damer le pion.

I'm not stupid. (QC)

Je suis pas cave.

my bull's eye

mon oeil-de-boeuf

I've just accepted a posting abroad.
- the posting
- to post sb to
- sim: the reassignment, to reassign

Je viens d'accepter une affectation à l'étranger.
- (la) affectation
- affecter qn à
- la réaffectation, réaffecter

They think they have been fooled by the West.
- to fool

Ils pensent avoir été bernés par l'Occident.
- berner (trans)

the ant
the anthill

la fourmi
la fourmilière

to dissect
the dissection

disséquer: dissèque dissèques dissèque
disséquons disséquez dissèquent
la dissection

He looks like he had a bad fall.
alt: a bad setback

Il a l'air de prendre une méchante débarque. (QC) (2)

We bicker all the time.
- to bicker (with each other)

On se chicane tout le temps.
- se chicaner

My father carped about the poor service.
- to carp, to carp at (someone)

Mon père a chicané sur le mauvais service.
- chicaner

to have shadows under the eyes
m/ You're a bit pale.
- to encircle
- the shadow

avoir les yeux cernés
T'es un peu cerné
- cerner
- le cerne

His accomplice is of average size.
- the size (not "la taille")

Son complice est de gabarit moyen.
- le gabarit

the setback
the bitter/great setback

le revers
le revers cuisant

an upscale neighborhood

un quartier huppé

It's a mess everywhere I go.

C'est le bordel partout où est-ce-que je passe.

Everything breaks here.
- to break, to fart

Tout pète ici.
- péter (2): pète/es/e pétons/ez pètent

He wants to work in that restaurant.
He wants to work there.

Il veut travailler dans ce restaurant.
Ils veut y travailller.
"y" replaces: "prep indication location (à, en, dans, derrière, sous, sur)" + "a place".
Also: 'chez" + "a person"

I'm thinking about my vacation.
I'm thinking about it.

Je pense à mes vacances.
J'y pense.
Some verbs followed by "à" also use "y" as replacement.

to match actions with words

joindre la parole aux actions

m/ It must be something that is fallen.
Hint: not "est tombé"

Ça doit être quelque chose qui est debarqué. (QC)

it's jamming
- to jam, to stick

ça coince
- coincer (2)

It must not be easy to see them leave the hospital.
- to be easy, to be obvious

Ça doit pas être évident de les voir quitter l'hopital.
- être évident (2)

Quebec can spend this amount as it wishes.

Le Québec peut dépenser ce montant à sa guise.

the snippets of conversation
- the snippet

les bribes de conversation
- la bribe

the news anchor

le chef (la cheffe) d'antenne

It's sickening/disgusting what she said.
- sickening, disgusting
- sickened, disgusted
fed up (QC)

C'est écoeurant ce qu'elle a dit.
- écoeurant (2)
- écoeuré (3)

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