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Dictionary translations for "deux poids deux mesures"

les deux poids deux mesures f pl noun

double standard

Phrases with "deux poids deux mesures" (1)

politique de deux poids deux mesures - policy of double standards

Contexts with "deux poids deux mesures"

La justice de ce pays, c'est un peu deux poids deux mesures : il y a la justice des pauvres et la justice des riches. Justice in this country is a bit of a double standard: there is the justice of the poor and the justice of the rich.

Deux cent cinquante kilos est un poids extraordinaire, même pour un joueur de sumo. 250 kg is an extraordinary weight, even for a sumo wrestler.

Elle a suivi un régime les deux derniers mois car elle a pris trop de poids durant l'hiver. She has been on a diet for the past two months because she put on too much weight during the winter.

L'accident a été un argument de poids en faveur des nouvelles mesures de sécurité. The accident was a strong argument for new safety measures.

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.

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