Usage examples of "canne blanche" in French with translation to English

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Faire une nuit blanche n'est jamais aussi productif qu'il apparaît. All-nighters are never as productive as they seem.
Mon grand-père ne peut pas marcher sans sa canne. My grandfather can't walk without his cane.
Un faisceau de lumière blanche est divisé par un prisme en rayons de différentes couleurs. A beam of white light is split by a prism into rays of various colors.
Une petite vieille a déjoué le cambriolage en donnant un grand coup sur la tête du voleur avec sa canne. A little, old woman foiled the robbery by whacking the thief on the head with her cane.
Elle préférerait tirer les avantages du célibat que d'acheter une belle robe blanche. She would rather take advantage of being single than buy a beautiful white dress.
À Singapour, une façon de punir les criminels est de les fouetter, ou de les frapper plusieurs fois avec une canne, sur le dos. In Singapore, a way to punish criminals is to whip them, or hit them several strokes with a cane, on their backs.
Il était recouvert partout de peinture blanche. He was covered all over with white paint.
Combien de gens ont un habit de cent francs, un diamant à la pomme de leur canne, et dînent à vingt-cinq sous ! Il semble que nous n'achetions jamais assez chèrement les plaisirs de la vanité. How many men are there that wear a coat that cost a hundred francs, and carry a diamond in the head of their cane, and dine for twenty-five SOUS for all that! It seems as though we could never pay enough for the pleasures of vanity.
Je cherche une minijupe blanche ! I am looking for a white mini skirt!
Je me déplace très bien maintenant avec ma nouvelle canne. I get along quite well now with my new cane.
La maison blanche est antique. The white house is antique.
Il a tout avalé : l'hameçon, la canne et le plomb. He fell for it hook, line, and sinker.
Une colombe blanche se trouve sur le toit. A white dove is on the roof.
Mon grand-père ne peut pas marcher sans canne. My grandfather cannot walk without a walking stick.
La bave du crapaud n'atteint pas la blanche colombe. Even if malicious gossip is being circulated around someone, it doesn't necessarily means that the value of that person will be diminished.
La canne sert à annoncer le fait que les mains de celui qui la tient sont employées à autre chose qu'à un effort utile, et elle est donc utile comme preuve d'oisiveté. The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure.
Donne-moi une feuille blanche. Give me a white piece of paper.
Marie avait un petit agneau dont la toison était blanche comme neige. Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow.
Il y a une ligne blanche au milieu de la route. There is a white line in the middle of the road.
Pourquoi la neige est-elle blanche ? Why is snow white?
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