Sentence examples of "comble en mansarde" in French

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Elle perdit son chemin, et pour comble de malchance, il se mit à pleuvoir. She lost her way and on top of that it began to rain.
Pour comble de malheur, il tomba malade. To make things even worse, he got sick.
Pour comble de malheur, il commença à pleuvoir. To make matters worse, it began to rain.
La conférence a fait salle comble. The conference had a full house.
La simplicité est le comble du raffinement. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
C'était suffisamment grave qu'il arrive habituellement au travail en retard, mais venir soûl est un comble, et je vais devoir m'en débarrasser. It was bad enough that he usually came to work late, but coming in drunk was the last straw, and I'm going to have to let him go.
Je vous enverrai un courriel après que je l'ai vérifié de fond en comble. I will email you after I check it thoroughly.
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