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Dictionary translations for "arme à double tranchant"

l' arme à double tranchant f noun

pl. armes à double tranchant

double-edged sword (Business Basic)

whipsaw (Business Basic)

Contexts with "arme à double tranchant"

Être un anglophone est à double tranchant. D'un côté, tu parles la langue la plus utile au monde à la perfection; mais de l'autre, personne ne veut parler une autre langue avec toi, ce qui rend difficile l'apprentissage d'une langue étrangère. Being an anglophone is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you speak perfectly the world's most useful language. But on the other, no one wants to speak anything else with you - making foreign language acquisition difficult.

C'est à double tranchant It cuts both ways

Je lui ai offert un briquet à double flamme que j'ai acheté aux États-Unis. I offered him a double-flame lighter that I bought in the United States.

Selon le rapport balistique, cette arme à feu ne peut être l'arme du crime. According to the ballistics report, this gun can't be the murder weapon.

Un tel homme ne va pas chasser et possède rarement une arme à feu. Such a man does not go hunting and seldom owns a gun.

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