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Idiomes : intrusions

"C'est pour ma pomme" = (je vais payer) : it's my treat/I got this/it's my shout (UK). En France, la politesse et le savoir-vivre imposent que la personne, qui paye pour un groupe, entre la dernière dans un restaurant, dans un bar.

Mettre son nez dans : to snoop around/into.

Être au pain sec et à l'eau : to be on bread and water (rations), to be down to bread and water.

Ce ne sont pas tes/vos oignons (familier) = ça ne te/vous regarde pas : it's none of your business, that's none of your business (GB). That's not your business (US) NB : (Le "of" disparait en américain). It's none of your beeswax, that's none of your beeswax (argot, expressions vieillies).

Péter un câble = (réagir de façon incontrôlable et violente) : amok, amuck.

"(Faire un) trou normand": lors d'un repas pantagruélique (trop copieux), c'est boire une liqueur entre deux plats, pour faire passer la nourriture déjà ingérée avant d'avaler la suite du repas = drink break some spirits during a meal. Palate cleanser = pour se changer le palais lors d'un plat trop puissant. Bien sûr, tout alcool est à consommer toujours avec modération. 

Mettre quelque chose au clou = mettre en gage : vous y déposez un objet de valeur, on l'estime et on vous le prend, en échange duquel on vous prête de l'argent. Vous pourrez racheter cet objet plus tard, ou il sera revendu aux enchères après un délai défini légalement, "chez ma Tante", au Crédit Municipal de Paris, aller au Mont de Piété : to pawn [sth], to hock, pawnshop, hochshop, Uncle (argot, vieilli).

Mettre sur le compte de : (ne pas payer tout de suite, avoir une note chez un commerçant, ou un prestataire de services partenaire) : to charge, to make a note of. On le paiera mensuellement, à la quinzaine, ou à la semaine, voire sous 90 jours pour les fournisseurs, auprès des artisans et commerçants, suivant le contrat signé entre les deux parties.

Tomber dans les pommes = (s'évanouir) : to faint, to pass out.

Passer à tabac : to gave somebody the third degree, to beat up, to rough up, to get beaten up.

Un fouineur, une fouineuse, un/une fouille-merde (très familier) = (curieux, indiscret) quand c'est un nom : busybody, nosy parker, nosey parker, muckraker, dirt digger. Mais si c'est un adjectif qualificatif : nosy creature, nosy so-and-so, snooper. Hacker s'utilise pour l'informatique.

Claquer la porte au nez : to shut/slam the door in [sb]'s face.

Avoir une faim de loup = (être affamé) : to be famished, to be starving, to be ravenous, ravenous with hunger, starve.

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1. She almost amockdrink breakhad been beaten upit was his shootmake a note ofpassed outsnoop intostarvingthat was none of their businesswas on bread and butter Je ne sais pas when she saw both her boy friend and her elder brother arrive at her house, at seven. "How they dare ?"

2. She answered her boyfriend and her elder brother "amockdrink breakhad been beaten upit was his shootmake a note ofpassed outsnoop intostarvingthat was none of their businesswas on bread and butter Je ne sais pas if she didn't come home last night!" and furious, she slammed the door in their faces. She had to sleep!

3. Would they be jealous? The day before, she had been assaulted at the bus stop on her way home from work, and amockdrink breakhad been beaten upit was his shootmake a note ofpassed outsnoop intostarvingthat was none of their businesswas on bread and butter Je ne sais pas by a customer she had reported as a shoplifter to her employer. So, she had gone to the hospital, then at the Police station to sue that creep.

4. Her elder brother needn't always amockdrink breakhad been beaten upit was his shootmake a note ofpassed outsnoop intostarvingthat was none of their businesswas on bread and butter Je ne sais pas her business, like her boyfriend: she was tall, free and independent, presently!

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7. But as she amockdrink breakhad been beaten upit was his shootmake a note ofpassed outsnoop intostarvingthat was none of their businesswas on bread and butter Je ne sais pas for an overweight problem,...

8. ... she was amockdrink breakhad been beaten upit was his shootmake a note ofpassed outsnoop intostarvingthat was none of their businesswas on bread and butter Je ne sais pas, and ordered more than reason.

9. They even ordered a amockdrink breakhad been beaten upit was his shootmake a note ofpassed outsnoop intostarvingthat was none of their businesswas on bread and butter Je ne sais pas, which was unusual.

10. Her brother had forgotten his credit card, so, he asked to amockdrink breakhad been beaten upit was his shootmake a note ofpassed outsnoop intostarvingthat was none of their businesswas on bread and butter Je ne sais pas his account. He knew very well this restaurant, as he worked there. So that he was pawned without any problem. All's well that ends well.

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