Translation of "passoire fine" to English

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Dictionary translations for "passoire fine"

la passoire fine f noun
pl. passoires fines
round strainer (groupe nominal, récipient percé de trous)

Contexts with "passoire fine"

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.
J'ai une mémoire de passoire. I have a memory like a sieve.
Il la joue fine ! He plays it smart!
Non, tu ne peux pas te mettre la passoire sur la tête ; tu feras l'astronaute après que j'aurai égoutté les pâtes. No, you may not put the colander on your head; you can be an astronaut after I drain the pasta.
Aucune femme n'aime porter une robe qu'une autre a mise au rebut. Avec les hommes, elles ne font pas autant la fine bouche. No women like to wear a dress that another discarded. With men, they're not so choosy.
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