Sentence examples of "diamant taillé en rose" in French
Mon grand-père était un homme plutôt cultivé, pour l'époque et le lieu, mais il n'était simplement pas taillé pour être un homme d'affaires.
My grandfather was quite a learned man for his time and place but he just wasn't cut out to be a businessman.
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.
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.
Je ne suis simplement pas taillé pour ce genre de travail.
I'm just not cut out for this kind of work.
C'était taillé dans un morceau de bois de pin, sculpté et poncé en forme de cœur.
It was carved from a piece of pine wood, cut and sanded into the shape of a heart.
Un cambrioleur prit le large avec la bague en diamant de ma femme.
A burglar made away with my wife's diamond ring.
Combien de gens ont un habit de cent francs, un diamant à la pomme de leur canne, et dînent à vingt-cinq sous ! Il semble que nous n'achetions jamais assez chèrement les plaisirs de la vanité.
How many men are there that wear a coat that cost a hundred francs, and carry a diamond in the head of their cane, and dine for twenty-five SOUS for all that! It seems as though we could never pay enough for the pleasures of vanity.
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