ALPHABETICAL LIST OF IDIOMS OCCURRING IN EXERCISES I-XV

Verbal Idious s'attendre i, to expert.

avoir: — beau, in vain, useless; — besoin de, to be in need of; — envie de, to désire to; — faim, to be bungry;

— raison, to be right; — sept ans, to be seven years old;

— tort, to be wrong; il y a, ago.

battre des mains, to applaud.

cesser (de), to stop.

changer (de), to change.

demander quelque chose à quelqu'un, to ask somebody for

se dépêcher (de), to hasten (to).

se douter (de), to suspect.

éclater (de), to burat (out).

entrer (dans), to enter.

envoyer chercher, to send for.

faillir tomber, to be on the point of falling.

faire: — appeler, to call, send for; — bonne chère, to eat well;

— du bien (à), to do good (to); — du tort (à), to do wrong (to); — les adieux (à), to bid farewell (to); — plaisir (à), to please; — savoir, to inform, let know; — une question, to ask a question; — visite, to pay a vis: t.

se fier (â), to trust (in), dépend (upon).

gagner sa vie, to eam a livelihood.

jouir (de), to enjoy.

manquer (de), to fail (to).

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mettre : se — (à), to begin (to) ; se — eu colère, to get angry;

— à la porte, to put out of doois.

se moquer (de), to laugh (at).

se porter, to be (of heaitk), îeel.

poser par terre, to place upon the ground.

pousser des cris, to utter cries.

n'en pouvoir plus, to be exhausted.

prendre: — part (à), to take part (in); s'y — , to go about. se rappeler quelque chose, to remember something. recevoir des nouvelles (de), to hear (fiom).

se rendre (à), to go to.

ressembler (i), to resemble, il ne me reste plus rien, I hâve nothing left. rester au lit, to remain in bed.

savoir: — -au juste, to know exactly; — bon gré (à), to be

thankful (to); — lire, to be able (know how) to read; —

par cœur, to know by heart; en — plus long que, to know

more about than, be cleverer than.

servir: — ■ (a), to serve (as), be used for; se — (de), to use,

make use (of).

songer a, to think of.

se souvenir de, to remember.

tarder (à), to be long (in).

tomber à torrents, to f ail in torrents, venir: — (à), to happen (to); — de, to bave just. vouloir bien, to be kind enough (to),

MlSCELLANEOUS IdIOHS

a force de, by dint of.

à haute voix, in a loud voice.

i la fois, at the same tune, peu a. peu, little by little.

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aller au-devant de, to meet.

au lieu de, instead of.

tout à l'heure, a little whîle.

du matin au soir, from moming till night.

d'un cOte, on one side.

courant d'air, a draft.

tout de suite, immediately.

a neuf heures du soir, at nine o'clock in the evening.

la boite haute de cinq pieds, the box five feet high,

plus de trois heures, more than three hours,

quatre heures par jour, four hours a day.

Heavy fsgurw reJcr ta gag», lijzhl figures to lina

1. — i. roi Robert, King Robert of France (022-933), killed at the battle of Soissons, fightmg against his rival, Charles the Simple.

1. chantait au lutrin, "was singing in the chorister's desk."

2. Bretagne, Brittany, the gteat nort h western or Armorican peninsula of France, extending in triangular form into the sea, its base resting on Normandy, Maine, Anjou, and Poitou, its aides washed by the Channel and the Atlantic océan. In earlier limes it formed, with the naine of Duchy, one of the provinces of France. It was formally anneied by Francis I in 1532- Now it forms the five departments of Finistère, Côtes-du-Nord, Morbihan, IUe-et- Vilaine, and Loire 'Inférieure. It still teems with dialects of Breton, a Celtic language.

6. du, contracted article (de Ie> du), masc. sing., is translated into English by "of the. from the"; du, partitive article, dénotes an indefinite quantily and is translated by

13. ne faisait que répéter, "always repeated," or "repeated over and over."

14. ne voulez-vous donc pas . . .? "do you not wish . . .? won't you, please . . .?"

ig. ne s'en souciait guère, "riid not even cars."

2. ~ 9 Pour comble de malheur, "To crown ail," or "to complète her misfortune."

iS. tous deux, "both."

17. pensa-t-il, "did he think." When an interrogative verb does not end in the 3d pers. sing. with a I or a d, a euphonie ( is placed between the verb and the pronoun.