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question		réponse
to keep up a house commencer à apprendre		to maintaina it in good condition
to keep up someone's interest commencer à apprendre		not to allow someone to get bored
to keep up with the Jonses commencer à apprendre		to aim at not being left behind them socially: to have as many 'status symbols' as they have
to keep up with commencer à apprendre		i can't keep up with you (you are going too fast for me, either physically in walking or intellectually)
to keep up with/in touchbwith someone commencer à apprendre		to remain in contact
to keep to the point commencer à apprendre		to cut out irrelevant matter
to keep on with something commencer à apprendre		to continue to work at something
to keep house for someone commencer à apprendre		to do the housework for someone: to be a housekeeper
to keep off commencer à apprendre		Keep off the grass. (do not walk on it)
to keep off commencer à apprendre		a subject (to avoid mentioning it)
to keep off commencer à apprendre		mosquitoes, flies etc. (to prevent them from worrying you)
to keep out commencer à apprendre		Keep out! (do not enter)
to keep something from someone commencer à apprendre		I tried to keep it from him. (prevent him from finding out about it)
to knock down commencer à apprendre		someone (to knock someone flat in an accident or flight)
to knock down commencer à apprendre		I knock him down to £5. (i haggled until he agreed to accept £5 for the article: colloquial)
to knock up commencer à apprendre		someone (to awaken someone at a certain time)
to knock up commencer à apprendre		something (to make it oneself)
to knock someone out commencer à apprendre		to punch someone so that he falls down unconscious - in boxing or a fight)
to lay down commencer à apprendre		the law (to speak with great authority - generally without any justification)
to lay down commencer à apprendre		one's life (to sacrifice it for one's country)
to lay down commencer à apprendre		one's arm (to surrender)
to be laid up with commencer à apprendre		to be confined to bed on the doctor's orders because of
to lay off workers commencer à apprendre		to tell workers to go home because there is no work for them
to lay on electicity, gas, etc commencer à apprendre		to supply it by connecting it up to the main
the lay-out of a garden etc. commencer à apprendre		to design of it
to lead off commencer à apprendre		to start a discussion etc.
to be led away by one's feeling commencer à apprendre		to be overpowered by them so that one loses rational control
a leading question commencer à apprendre		a question designed to elicit a particular answer
to let someone down commencer à apprendre		to fail someone by not keeping one's promise
to let someone into commencer à apprendre		a room (to allow someone to enter)
to let someone into commencer à apprendre		a secret (to tell someone it)
to let off commencer à apprendre		rooms (to allow tenanta to occupy them)
to let off commencer à apprendre		fireworks or guns (to make them explode)
to let out commencer à apprendre		clothes (to make them larger)
to let out commencer à apprendre		a secret (to betray it by accident)
to let out commencer à apprendre		a cry of pain (not to attempt to suppress it)
to look at commencer à apprendre		to view, to observe
to lool on/upon someone as a friend commencer à apprendre		to regard someone as a friend
to look on commencer à apprendre		to be a passive spectator
an onlooker commencer à apprendre		a chance spectator
to look over commencer à apprendre		to check or correct a manuscript etc.
to look over commencer à apprendre		to give a view of
to look over commencer à apprendre		someone's book (to get help by seeing what he has written)
to overlook commencer à apprendre		to give a view of
to overlook commencer à apprendre		not to notice: to miss a mistake etc.
to overlook commencer à apprendre		to forgive
to look into something commencer à apprendre		to investigate something
to look down on someone commencer à apprendre		to despise someone
to look up to someone commencer à apprendre		to admire someone
to look someone up commencer à apprendre		to take the trouble to visit someone when you happen to be in his home town
to look someone up and down commencer à apprendre		to survey someone critically from head to foot
to look through something commencer à apprendre		to read something rather cursorily
to look for commencer à apprendre		to search for something lost
to look for commencer à apprendre		to expect or exact
to look forward to doing something commencer à apprendre		to expect to enjoy something
to look like commencer à apprendre		someone (to resemble someone)
to look like commencer à apprendre		It looks like remaining fine. (It will probably remain fine)
to look like commencer à apprendre		What does he look like? (what kind of aplearance does he present)
to look after something or someone commencer à apprendre		to take care of something or someone
to look out over commencer à apprendre		to command a view of
Look out! commencer à apprendre		Take care!
to make out commencer à apprendre		to find out or discover
to make out commencer à apprendre		to understand
to make out commencer à apprendre		to see in the distance with difficulty
to make out commencer à apprendre		a chque, bill, list etc. (to write it out)
to make out commencer à apprendre		to pretend
to make up commencer à apprendre		one's face (to use cosmetics)
to make up commencer à apprendre		a prescription (to make the medicine from the doctor's instructions)
to make up commencer à apprendre		a story (to invent it)
to make up commencer à apprendre		a parcel (to toe it with paper and string)
to make up commencer à apprendre		one's mind (to decide)
to make up commencer à apprendre		a fire (to put more coal on it)
to make up commencer à apprendre		a quarrel (to become reconciled after quarrelling)
to make up commencer à apprendre		a four (to be fourth player in a game of cards or tennis)
to make up commencer à apprendre		a bill (to add up the items on it and present it to the customer)
to make up commencer à apprendre		a bed (to prepare a pare bed to receive a visitor)
to make up commencer à apprendre		to someone (to be particulary charming because you want someone to do something for you)
make-up commencer à apprendre		cosmetics
make-up commencer à apprendre		a person's fundamental character
to be made up of commencer à apprendre		to be composed of
to make away with someone commencer à apprendre		to murder someone
to make do with something commencer à apprendre		to manage with somwthing because one cannot afford to get anything better
Made it! commencer à apprendre		I've managed it! I've succeed in doing it!
to make a clean breast of something commencer à apprendre		to confess something fully
to make hay while the sun shines commencer à apprendre		to take one's opportunity when it comes
to make a mountain out of a molehill commencer à apprendre		to exaggerate the importance of something
to pass oneself off as someone commencer à apprendre		to pretend to be someone
to pass on commencer à apprendre		to die
to pass on commencer à apprendre		information or news (to tell it to others)
to pass out commencer à apprendre		to faint
to pass out commencer à apprendre		to finish one's initial period of training in the army, an apprenticeship
to pass down knowledge from father to son commencer à apprendre		to transmit orally so as to exclude other from the secret of how to do it
a pretty pass commencer à apprendre		Things have come to a pretty pass. (They have reached a terrible state; the situation has bexomw really serious)
to pull out commencer à apprendre		a tooth (to extract it)
to pull out commencer à apprendre		A car pulled out. (It left the kerb after being parked there or moved towards the centre of the road to overtake)
to pull someone's leg commencer à apprendre		to tease, joke with someone
to pull down commencer à apprendre		a building (to demolish it)
to pull down commencer à apprendre		An attack of 'flu pulls you down. (It makes you feel weak and depressed for a long time afterwards)
to pull somerhing off commencer à apprendre		to remove an object
to pull something off commencer à apprendre		to succeed in an endeavour
to pull round commencer à apprendre		to recover from an illness
to pull someone round commencer à apprendre		to cure someone of and illness
to pull oneself together commencer à apprendre		to control one's behaviour with an effort; to force oneself to bahave rationally
to pull up commencer à apprendre		to stop - used of cars, taxi etc.
to pull strings commencer à apprendre		to use personal influence, e. g to obtain a job
to pull through commencer à apprendre		to survive an illness
to pull someone through commencer à apprendre		to cure someone of an illness
output commencer à apprendre		production, either industrial or artistic
to put off a light commencer à apprendre		to switch it off
to put off doing something commencer à apprendre		to postpone doing something
to put someone off the idea of doing something commencer à apprendre		to discourage someone from doing something
to put someone off someone commencer à apprendre		That put me off him. (it made me dislike him)
to put in commencer à apprendre		an hour's work (to do it)
to put in commencer à apprendre		to interrupt a conversation
to put in commencer à apprendre		at a port (to call at it on the way to somewhere else)
to put in commencer à apprendre		a good word for someone (to speak well of someone: to recommend him)
to put in commencer à apprendre		an application (to write it and send it off)

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