Sentence examples of "pink slip" in English
A slip of the tongue often brings about unexpected results.
Les lapsus donnent souvent des résultats inattendus.
She let slip that she had found out about her brother's embarrassing little secret.
Elle a laissé échappé qu'elle avait découvert le petit secret embarrassant de son frère.
The tall man wore a pink carnation in his lapel.
L'homme de grande taille portait un œillet rose au revers.
We ordered pink, but we received blue.
Nous en avons commandé un rose, mais nous avons reçu un bleu.
A slip of the tongue is sometimes fatal to a politician.
Un lapsus est parfois fatal pour les politiciens.
A Freudian slip is when you mean one thing, but you say your mother.
Un lapsus révélateur, c'est quand on veut dire une chose et qu'on en dit une outre.
Section 214b, in my opinion one of the stranger provisions of the Land of Schleswig-Holstein's General Administrative Code, seems to imply that somebody who sees a pink elephant must give it a receipt.
L'article 214b, selon mon opinion une des dispositions encore plus étranges du Code administratif général du Land de Schleswig-Holstein, semble stipuler que quelqu'un qui voit un éléphant rose doit lui délivrer un reçu.
And then she let slip a not-so-subtle innuendo about my drinking habits.
Et puis elle a laissé échapper une allusion pas très subtile au sujet de mon penchant pour la boisson.
She walked slowly so she wouldn't slip.
Elle marcha lentement de telle sorte qu'elle ne glissât pas.
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