couper court, put an end ; lit. eut short. Etre court

d'argent, or simply être à court, to be short of money; rester court (lit. to remain short), not to know how to proceed or what to say.

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I. y songes-tu, the idéal lit. are you thinking of (what you say). Songer, like penser, governs the dative case {penser à) instead of the genitive (to think of) as in English. However, penser must be folio wed by the préposition de when it means ‘ to think (good or bad) of a person or thing,* ‘to hâve an opinion about’: que pensez-vous de cette femme, de ce

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tahleaUy de cette affaire, etc. Sometimes penser (generally followed, in that case, by a verb in the infinitive mood, means ‘ to be near,’ ‘ to be in danger of ’ : il a pensé se noyer, be was nearly drowned ; notre maison a pensé brûler, our bouse was in danger of being burnt. It can also be used impersonally : il pensa lui en coûter la vie, be nearly lost bis life tbrougb it.