Sentence examples of "canard de Barbarie" in French

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La vache meugle, le coq chante, le cochon grouine, le canard cancane, et le chat miaule. The cow goes "moo," the rooster goes "cock-a-doodle-doo," the pig goes "oink, oink," the duck goes "quack, quack" and the cat goes "meow."
Chacun appelle barbarie ce qui n'est pas de son usage. Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice.
Il a préparé une sauce aux airelles pour accompagner le canard. He made a cranberry sauce to accompany duck.
Le barbare, c'est d'abord l'homme qui croit à la barbarie. The barbarian is, first and foremost, the man who believes in barbarianism.
La vache fait "meuh", le coq fait "cocorico", le cochon fait "groin, groin", le canard fait "coin, coin" et le chat fait "miaou". The cow goes "moo," the rooster goes "cock-a-doodle-doo," the pig goes "oink, oink," the duck goes "quack, quack" and the cat goes "meow."
Socialisme ou barbarie. Socialism or barbarism.
Tim est le vilain petit canard des Jones. Tim is the black sheep of the Jones' family.
Le socialisme ou la barbarie. Socialism or barbarism.
Où est le canard en caoutchouc ? Where is the rubber duck?
Il fait un froid de canard ce soir. It's awfully cold this evening.
Les commentateurs ont décrit le son des vuvuzelas comme "épuisant" et "satanique" et l'ont comparé avec "un troupeau d'éléphants en furie", "un amas assourdissant de sauterelles", "une chèvre allant à l'abattoir", "une gigantesque ruche remplie d'abeilles en furie", et à un "canard drogué aux amphétamines". Commentators have variously described the sound of vuvuzelas as "annoying" and "satanic" and compared it with "a stampede of noisy elephants", "a deafening swarm of locusts", "a goat on the way to slaughter", "a giant hive full of very angry bees", and "a duck on speed".
Il a fait un froid de canard hier. It was terribly cold yesterday.
Il fait un froid de canard It is bitterly cold
Ça casse pas trois pattes à un canard It's nothing to write home about
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