Sentence examples of "jeu de mots" in French
À la manière des fats, il larde ses phrases de mots anglais mal digérés. Une sorte de dandy raté, auquel il manquerait la classe.
In the style of conceited people, he lards his sentences with ill-digested English words. A kind of failed dandy, deprived of class.
Je viens d'inventer un nouveau processeur de mots permettant de les prononcer à l'envers.
I just invented a new word-processor enabling to pronounce them backwards.
De tous les hommes que j'ai rencontrés, il peut comprimer le plus de mots dans les plus petites idées.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Il y a des choses dans ce monde qui ne peuvent simplement pas être exprimées sous forme de mots.
There are things in this world which simply cannot be expressed in the form of words.
Nous jouâmes à un amusant jeu de charades après dîner.
We played an entertaining game of charades after dinner.
Le dictionnaire contient approximativement 2 millions de mots.
There are approximately 2 million words in a dictionary.
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