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Dictionary translations for "piquer au vif"

piquer au vif verb

cut to the quick (sentiments)

Contexts with "piquer au vif"

Je t'en supplie, écoute ce que j'ai à te dire jusqu'au bout avant de piquer une crise sur moi. I'm begging you, before freaking out on me listen to the end of what I have to say.

Mort ou vif, je t'aimerai toujours. Alive or dead, I'll always love you.

Je ne sentais pas le moustique en train de me piquer le bras. I was not aware of a mosquito biting my arm.

David a un vif intérêt pour l'esthétique - les qualités qui rendent une peinture, une sculpture, une composition musicale ou un poème agréable à l'oeil, à l'oreille ou à l'esprit. David has a keen interest in aesthetics — the qualities that make a painting, sculpture, musical composition, or poem pleasing to the eye, ear, or mind.

Ayant découvert la disparition de nombre de petits objets de la maison, je commence à penser que ma femme de maison a tendance à piquer. Having found a number of small items missing from my house, I'm starting to think that my housekeeper has sticky fingers.

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