Sentence examples of "comble sur pignon" 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.
On devra prendre un soin spécial sur ce point. Special care should be taken on this point.
Pour comble de malheur, il tomba malade. To make things even worse, he got sick.
Il est temps de se concentrer sur les affaires. It's time to get down to business.
Pour comble de malheur, il commença à pleuvoir. To make matters worse, it began to rain.
Je serai sur le point d'être aimé. I will be about to be loved.
La conférence a fait salle comble. The conference had a full house.
Les Français sont vraiment un peuple bizarre : parmi ceux qui lisent cette phrase, un sur deux va vérifier si l'espace avant le double point est bien fine et insécable. The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking.
La simplicité est le comble du raffinement. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Tu ne me ressembles pas sur plusieurs points. You differ from me in many ways.
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 lui ai donné le peu d'argent que j'avais sur moi. I gave him what little money I had with me.
Je vous enverrai un courriel après que je l'ai vérifié de fond en comble. I will email you after I check it thoroughly.
S'il avait su ce qui était sur le point de se passer, il aurait modifié son plan. Had he known what was about to happen, he would have changed his plan.
Mets du sel sur ta viande. Put some salt on your meat.
J'ai croisé un jeune homme sur la rue. I passed a boy in the street.
Termine ça et envoie tout le truc sur mon téléphone. Finish that, and then send the whole caboodle to my cellphone.
Pensez à poster la lettre sur le chemin de l'école. Remember to mail the letter on your way to school.
Il se perdit sur le chemin du village. He got lost on his way to the village.
Tom s'est arrêté en urgence sur le côté de la route. Tom made an emergency stop on the road.
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