Usage examples of "passoire fine" in French with translation to English

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Les Français sont vraiment un peuple bizarre : parmi ceux qui lisent cette phrase, un sur deux va vérifier si l'espace avant le double point est bien fine et insécable. The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking.
J'ai une mémoire de passoire. I have a memory like a sieve.
Il la joue fine ! He plays it smart!
Non, tu ne peux pas te mettre la passoire sur la tête ; tu feras l'astronaute après que j'aurai égoutté les pâtes. No, you may not put the colander on your head; you can be an astronaut after I drain the pasta.
Aucune femme n'aime porter une robe qu'une autre a mise au rebut. Avec les hommes, elles ne font pas autant la fine bouche. No women like to wear a dress that another discarded. With men, they're not so choosy.
Les aveugles ont souvent l'ouïe très fine. A blind person's hearing is often very acute.
La glace est trop fine pour porter ton poids. The ice is too thin to bear your weight.
La fine ligne entre la lucidité et la folie est devenue plus mince encore. The thin line between sanity and madness has gotten finer.
La glace sur le lac est trop fine pour supporter ton poids. The ice on the lake is too thin to bear your weight.
Le sous-marin dut sourdre au travers d'une fine couche de glace. The submarine had to break through a thin sheet of ice to surface.
La glace est trop fine pour y pouvoir patiner. The ice is too thin to skate on.
Aucune femme n'aime porter une robe qu'une autre a mise au rebut. Avec les hommes, elles ne font pas tant la fine bouche. No women like to wear a dress that another discarded. With men, they're not so choosy.
Il utilise un crayon avec une pointe fine. He uses a pencil with a fine point.
Qui aurait pensé qu'elle put être aussi fine et petite ? Who would have thought that she could be so thin and small?
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