Sentence examples of "bête noire" in French
Plus bête un enfant est, plus mignon il semble à ses parents.
The more foolish a child is, the cuter he seems to his parents.
Assise dans son fauteuil en peau de panthère, la jeune femme en lingerie rouge lisait à haute voix un livre intitulé « La princesse noire ».
Sitting in her panther hide chair, the young woman, clad in red lingerie, was reading aloud a book titled "The Black Princess".
Je suis trop bête... J'essaie de t'expliquer des choses que je ne comprends pas moi-même.
I'm so dumb... I'm trying to explain things to you that I don't understand myself.
"Le sorcier se déguise en bête, il met une peau sur sa tête et il se promène dans le bourg. C'est mon papa qui me l'a dit."
"The sorcerer disguises himself as a beast, he wears a hide over his head and walks around town. It's my daddy who told me that."
Elle est très comme il faut dans une robe de soirée noire.
She is very becoming in a black party dress.
Moins le blanc est intelligent, plus le noir lui paraît bête.
The dumber the white man is, the more the black man looks dumb to him.
Tout à coup, la sonnette de la porte de devant tinta et l'ombre noire d'un homme seul se glissa tranquillement à l'intérieur.
All of a sudden, the front door bell rang and the dark shadow of a lone man slipped in quietly.
La garde-robe d'une femme n'est pas complète sans une petite robe noire.
A woman's wardrobe isn't complete without a little black dress.
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