Usage examples of "mauvais comme la gale" in French with translation to English

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Pour une raison quelconque, les gens m'ont évitée comme la peste depuis que je suis revenu d'Inde. For some reason, people have been avoiding me like the plague ever since I got back from India.
En raison d'une grave maladie, il ne peut pas mouvoir son corps comme la plupart des gens le peuvent. Because of a serious disease, he can't move his body as most people can.
Il voyait le suicide comme la seule issue. He saw suicide as the only way out.
C'est sec comme la poussière. It's dry as dust.
Les mathématiques sont comme la logique de la physique. Mathematics is like the logic of physics.
Comme la tarte aux pommes de sa tante était délicieuse il s'est resservi. His aunt's apple pie was delicious and he had a second helping.
Pour une raison quelconque, les gens m'ont évité comme la peste depuis que je suis revenu d'Inde. For some reason, people have been avoiding me like the plague ever since I got back from India.
La victoire, comme la défaite, fait partie du quotidien du soldat. Both victory and defeat are but an everyday occurrence to a soldier.
Comme la règle le veut, je vais à l'école avant huit heures. As a rule, I go to school before eight o'clock.
La publicité peut être décrite comme la science de stopper l'intelligence humaine assez longtemps pour en tirer de l'argent. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Comme la nourriture nourrit le corps, la lecture nourrit l'esprit. Just as food feeds the body, so reading feeds the mind.
« La langue française a un style qui coule. » « Oui, qui coule comme la diarrhée. » "The French language flows." "Yes, like diarrhea flows."
Car toute chaire est comme l'herbe et toute la gloire de l'homme comme la fleur de l'herbe. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.
Comme la Chine est un pays en voie de développement, certains aspects ne sont pas aussi bien que les pays occidentaux. Because it's a developing country, some aspects of China aren't as good as those in Western countries.
Ma maison est comme la vôtre. My house is like yours.
Il ressent ce prix comme la gloire suprême. He feels the prize to be the superior.
J'ai comme la vague idée que boracasli utilise un second compte. I have a hunch boracasli is using a second account.
Il y a quatre causes principales de décès liés à l'alcool. Les blessures dans les accidents automobiles ou la violence en est une. Les maladies comme la cirrhose, le cancer, les maladies cardio-vasculaires en sont les autres. There are four main causes of alcohol-related death. Injury from car accidents or violence is one. Diseases like cirrhosis of the liver, cancer, heart and blood system diseases are the others.
Comme la saison froide s'installe, les gens qui ne sont pas en si bonne santé ont des chances de contracter des rhumes. As the cold season sets in, people who aren't so healthy are likely to catch colds.
La poésie doit être neuve comme l'écume et vieille comme la roche. Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.
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