Usage examples of "canard mandarin" in French with translation to English

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Il fait un froid de canard ce soir. It's awfully cold this evening.
Il disait que parler le mandarin est comme de manger de l'ananas. Ça le démange partout. He said that speaking Chinese is like eating pineapple. It makes him itchy all over.
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."
Il sait parler une sorte de chinois, mais il ne sait pas parler mandarin. She can speak a type of Chinese, but she can't speak Mandarin.
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."
J'étudie le mandarin depuis longtemps, mais je ne le parle pas couramment. I've been studying Chinese for a long time, but I'm not fluent.
Il a préparé une sauce aux airelles pour accompagner le canard. He made a cranberry sauce to accompany duck.
Apprenez le mandarin, non pour impressionner votre futur employeur, mais pour comprendre ce qu'il dit. Learn Chinese, not to impress your future boss, but to understand what she is saying.
Où est le canard en caoutchouc ? Where is the rubber duck?
Ce n'est pas du mandarin, mais du shangaïen. This isn't Mandarin, it's Shanghainese.
Il a fait un froid de canard hier. It was terribly cold yesterday.
Le shanghaïen est en fait une sorte de pidgin, fondé sur les dialectes wu, le mandarin du bas-Yangtse, et des mots empruntés à l'anglais. Shanghainese is actually a kind of pidgin, based on Wu dialects, Lower Yangtze Mandarin, and English loanwords.
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".
Tim est le vilain petit canard des Jones. Tim is the black sheep of the Jones' family.
Ça casse pas trois pattes à un canard It's nothing to write home about
Il fait un froid de canard It is bitterly cold
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