Usage examples of "comble" in French with translation to English

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La conférence a fait salle comble. The conference had a full house.
Pour comble de malheur, il tomba malade. To make things even worse, he got sick.
La simplicité est le comble du raffinement. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Pour comble de malheur, il commença à pleuvoir. To make matters worse, it began to rain.
Elle perdit son chemin, et pour comble de malchance, il se mit à pleuvoir. She lost her way and on top of that it began to rain.
Je vous enverrai un courriel après que je l'ai vérifié de fond en comble. I will email you after I check it thoroughly.
C'était suffisamment grave qu'il arrive habituellement au travail en retard, mais venir soûl est un comble, et je vais devoir m'en débarrasser. It was bad enough that he usually came to work late, but coming in drunk was the last straw, and I'm going to have to let him go.
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