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la fiction devient réalitéCe qui n’était qu’une idée ou une hypothèse se produit réellement.Rate it:

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polite fictionA social scenario in which all participants are aware of a truth, but pretend to believe in some alternative version of events to avoid conflict or embarrassment.Rate it:

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il n'est pas si diable qu'il est noirThe devil is not as black as he is painted.Rate it:

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broyer du noirTo have the blues; To feel very sad.Rate it:

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dire tantôt blanc, tantôt noirTo say first one thing and then another.Rate it:

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faire noirTo be dark, especially when it's night.Rate it:

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film noirmovie styleRate it:

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gare le pot au noirSe disait, au jeu de colin-maillard, pour avertir celui qui a les yeux bandés qu’il court le risque de se heurter contre quelque chose.Rate it:

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gare le pot au noirSe dit pour annoncer qu’il y a, dans une affaire, quelque inconvénient, quelque danger à prévoir.Rate it:

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humour noirblack humorRate it:

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il a les yeux au beurre noir (pop.)He has a couple of black eyes; He has his eyes in mourning.Rate it:

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il fait noir comme dans un fourIt is as dark as pitch.Rate it:

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il y a un point noir à l'horizonThere are breakers ahead.Rate it:

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mouton noira black sheepRate it:

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peu importe que le chat soit noir ou blanc pourvu qu'il attrape les sourisPeu importe l'idéologie ou la nationalité des entrepreneurs et des investisseurs pourvu qu'ils contribuent au développement économique de la Chine.Rate it:

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voir tout en noirTo look on the black side of things; To have the blues.Rate it:

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ride shotgunProbably arose in early-20th-century Western fiction and movies to describe an employee armed with a rifle or shotgun riding next to a stagecoach driver for protection.Rate it:

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fourth wallThe boundary between the fiction and the audience.Rate it:

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eternal sleep(mythology, fiction, fantasy) A magical state of suspended animation, where-in the recipient is placed in a state of ageless, deathless, everlasting sleep. Well-known examples are Endymion, (the lover of the Greek moon goddess, Selene), and the princess from Sleeping Beauty.Rate it:

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Bim, BEM, BumRetro art composition; composition stereotypical for the cover art of mid-20th-century science fiction pulp magazines.Rate it:

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fans are slansScience fiction fans are more intelligent and more creative than other people.Rate it:

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file off the serial numbersTo remove the copyrighted elements from an existing work of fan fiction so that it may be commercially published as original fiction.Rate it:

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huis closa genre in fiction where dramatic tension is derived from the action being set in an enclosed spaceRate it:

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huis closa work of fiction in which the action is set in an enclosed spaceRate it:

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Klaatu barada niktoA stock science-fiction phrase, typically used as a code or shibboleth.Rate it:

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le vrai peut quelquefois n'être pas vraisemblableTruth is stranger than fiction.Rate it:

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real superheroA crimefighter who imitates common characteristics of superheroes of fiction, typically by at least wearing colorful spandex clothes and a mask.Rate it:

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