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Dix idiomes

Bonjour et bienvenue ! 

Voici dix idiomes.

To be in a pickle: avoir un problème mineur.

To beat around the bush: tourner autour du pot.

To butter sb up: passer de la pommade à qqn, le flatter.

To cast a withering look at sb: jeter un regard plein de mépris à qqn.

To catch sb red-handed: prendre qqn la main dans le sac, en flagrant délit, sur le fait. 

To make awkward turns of phrase: faire des maladresses de style.

To perform in the streets: faire la manche, mendier, faire une quête c'est-à-dire demander de l'argent en échange d'une prestation, dans ce cas tout au moins. 

To spill the beans: vendre la mèche. 

To test the waters: tâter le terrain.

To swallow hook, to line and sinker: gober, croire.

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Amusez-vous bien et bonne chance !

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1. Children are always told fairy tales that they will beat around the bushbutter Nicolas upcast a withering look at hercaught Gérard red-handedhook,line and sinkermake awkward turns of phraseperform in the streetsspilling the beanstearing each other's hair outtest the waters Je ne sais pas it easily!

2. Around Beaubourg, in Paris, are there still many artists (dancers, musicians, singers…) who beat around the bushbutter Nicolas upcast a withering look at hercaught Gérard red-handedhook,line and sinkermake awkward turns of phraseperform in the streetsspilling the beanstearing each other's hair outtest the waters Je ne sais pas ?

3. The two women couldn't help beat around the bushbutter Nicolas upcast a withering look at hercaught Gérard red-handedhook,line and sinkermake awkward turns of phraseperform in the streetsspilling the beanstearing each other's hair outtest the waters Je ne sais pas until the elder moved away, at last: their neighbours can live quietly, right now.

4. Don't beat around the bushbutter Nicolas upcast a withering look at hercaught Gérard red-handedhook,line and sinkermake awkward turns of phraseperform in the streetsspilling the beanstearing each other's hair outtest the waters Je ne sais pas, you'll get nothing more from him, for sure.

5. Don't beat around the bushbutter Nicolas upcast a withering look at hercaught Gérard red-handedhook,line and sinkermake awkward turns of phraseperform in the streetsspilling the beanstearing each other's hair outtest the waters Je ne sais pas, you have just to go straight away, as you are only in a pickle: we have no time to waste either!

6. Why do you beat around the bushbutter Nicolas upcast a withering look at hercaught Gérard red-handedhook,line and sinkermake awkward turns of phraseperform in the streetsspilling the beanstearing each other's hair outtest the waters Je ne sais pas ? It's unkind to you and obviously unfair! You even don't know her!

7. I beat around the bushbutter Nicolas upcast a withering look at hercaught Gérard red-handedhook,line and sinkermake awkward turns of phraseperform in the streetsspilling the beanstearing each other's hair outtest the waters Je ne sais pas : he had just stolen a trifle but I couldn't trust him again, so that I left him instantly! Why would I have to live with a shoplifter?

8. You have to learn your idioms, if you don't want to beat around the bushbutter Nicolas upcast a withering look at hercaught Gérard red-handedhook,line and sinkermake awkward turns of phraseperform in the streetsspilling the beanstearing each other's hair outtest the waters Je ne sais pas.

9. Marie-Jo will never be my friend by beat around the bushbutter Nicolas upcast a withering look at hercaught Gérard red-handedhook,line and sinkermake awkward turns of phraseperform in the streetsspilling the beanstearing each other's hair outtest the waters Je ne sais pas anymore. As she has already betrayed me, I no longer allow her to interfere in my life!

10. When you make friends with somebody you don't know, you have to beat around the bushbutter Nicolas upcast a withering look at hercaught Gérard red-handedhook,line and sinkermake awkward turns of phraseperform in the streetsspilling the beanstearing each other's hair outtest the waters Je ne sais pas : please, be just more careful or you should suffer a lot from it!

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