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question		réponse
To tie the knot commencer à apprendre		To get married
To wear the pants commencer à apprendre		To be in control and make decisions in family or relationship
A breadwinner commencer à apprendre		A person who financially provides for the family
Born with a silver spoon commencer à apprendre		Born into a wealthy and privileged family
To elope commencer à apprendre		To get married in secret
A nuclear family commencer à apprendre		A couple and their dependent children
A sugar daddy commencer à apprendre		Usually older man who supports or spends lavishly on mistress, girlfriend or boyfriend
To pop the question commencer à apprendre		To propose marriage
An ancestor commencer à apprendre		A person related to you who lived a long time ago
Maiden name commencer à apprendre		The family name a woman has before she gets married
A bachelor commencer à apprendre		A man who is not and has never been married
An heir commencer à apprendre		A person who will receive money or a title from another person when that person dies
To follow in someone's footsteps commencer à apprendre		To do the same job or thing as someone else, esp member of your family
To run in the family commencer à apprendre		For the quality, ability or disease to occur in many members of the family
Blood is thicker than water commencer à apprendre		Said to emphasize that you belive that family connections are always more important than other types of relationships
To be like chalk and cheese commencer à apprendre		To be completely different from each other, have nothing in common
To bring home the bacon commencer à apprendre		To earn money for a family to live on
To get on like a house on fire commencer à apprendre		To like each other very much and become friends very quickly
A godparent commencer à apprendre		A peroson who presents a child at baptism
To grow out of something commencer à apprendre		To become too old or too mature for something
To be in somebody's blood commencer à apprendre		For an ability or skill to occur in someone naturally, usually because it already exists in their family
Accident of birth commencer à apprendre		Luck in something due to family good fortune
To foster commencer à apprendre		To take care of a child, usually for a limited time, without being the child's legal parent
Father figure commencer à apprendre		A mentor, a person who offers guidance
Up the duff commencer à apprendre		Pregnant, usually without it being planned
In-laws commencer à apprendre		Spouse's parents
Hereditary commencer à apprendre		Characteristics or diseases passed from the genes of parent to a child
A spoilt child commencer à apprendre		A child who shows bad behaviour because they have been allowed to do or have anything they want
Family gathering commencer à apprendre		An informal event where family members meet up
Generation gap commencer à apprendre		A difference of opinions between one generation and another
Dynasty commencer à apprendre		A sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
Broken home commencer à apprendre		A family in which the parents have separated or divorced
Descendant commencer à apprendre		Someone who is related to a person who lived a long time ago
Extended family commencer à apprendre		A family group that consists not only of parents but also grandparents, aunts etc
Kinship commencer à apprendre		A family relationship or a strong connection between people
Matriarch commencer à apprendre		A woman, especially older, who controls a family or a social group
Surrogate mother commencer à apprendre		A woman who has a baby for another woman who cannot have one
Mum's the word commencer à apprendre		"Be quiet", "Don't tell anyone"
Bad blood commencer à apprendre		Feeling of hatred between relatives because of disputes in the past
Marriage of convenience commencer à apprendre		Marriage entered into for a personal or family advantage
Like father, like son commencer à apprendre		Used for saying that a man or boy has the same attitude as his father
To rule the roost commencer à apprendre		To be in charge, make all decisions
Helicopter parenting commencer à apprendre		Overattentive child-raising
Shack up commencer à apprendre		To live together as unmarried sexual partners
Estranged commencer à apprendre		No longer living with their partner
Distant relative commencer à apprendre		A relative who is not closely related to you
Baptism commencer à apprendre		The sacrament of cleansing from original sin
An infant commencer à apprendre		A child during the first year of life
Overprotective commencer à apprendre		Having a tendency to protect someone excessuvely
Authoritative parenting commencer à apprendre		A parenting where parents set firm limits for their children
Heritage commencer à apprendre		Property that descends to an heir
The apple of someone's eye commencer à apprendre		A person or thing that someone loves very much
An insemination commencer à apprendre		The introduction of semen into a woman by natural or artificial means
To be named after someone commencer à apprendre		To have a name that was inspired by an older member of the family
Orphan commencer à apprendre		A child whose parents are dead
Genealogy commencer à apprendre		The study of family history and lineage
To be with child commencer à apprendre		Old-fashioned way of saying that someone is pregnant
A prenuptial agreement prenup commencer à apprendre		A legal document signed by 2 people before thay marry stating what will happen to their possesions if they divorce
Joint family commencer à apprendre		A family structure in which grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins are considered as a single unit living in one house
An upbringing commencer à apprendre		The treatment and instruction received by a child from its parents throughout its childhood

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