Usage examples of "diamant taillé en rose" in French with translation to English

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Il conduit une Cadillac rose. He drives a pink Cadillac.
C'est un authentique diamant, n'est-ce pas ? This is a real diamond, isn't it?
Mon grand-père était un homme plutôt cultivé, pour l'époque et le lieu, mais il n'était simplement pas taillé pour être un homme d'affaires. My grandfather was quite a learned man for his time and place but he just wasn't cut out to be a businessman.
L'article 214b, selon mon opinion une des dispositions encore plus étranges du Code administratif général du Land de Schleswig-Holstein, semble stipuler que quelqu'un qui voit un éléphant rose doit lui délivrer un reçu. Section 214b, in my opinion one of the stranger provisions of the Land of Schleswig-Holstein's General Administrative Code, seems to imply that somebody who sees a pink elephant must give it a receipt.
Ce diamant est-il vrai ? Is this diamond real?
Je ne suis simplement pas taillé pour ce genre de travail. I'm just not cut out for this kind of work.
Il n'y a pas de rose sans épines. There is no rose without thorns.
Le diamant est dur par nature. Diamond is essentially hard.
C'était taillé dans un morceau de bois de pin, sculpté et poncé en forme de cœur. It was carved from a piece of pine wood, cut and sanded into the shape of a heart.
Les pétales de la rose sont très doux. Rose petals are very soft.
Cela ne peut pas être un vrai diamant. This won't be a real diamond.
Voici une rose jaune. There's a yellow rose.
Est-ce un vrai diamant ? Is this diamond real?
Les pétales d'une rose sont très délicats. A rose's petals are very delicate.
Un cambrioleur prit le large avec la bague en diamant de ma femme. A burglar made away with my wife's diamond ring.
L'oreiller rose est propre. The pink pillow is clean.
Combien de gens ont un habit de cent francs, un diamant à la pomme de leur canne, et dînent à vingt-cinq sous ! Il semble que nous n'achetions jamais assez chèrement les plaisirs de la vanité. How many men are there that wear a coat that cost a hundred francs, and carry a diamond in the head of their cane, and dine for twenty-five SOUS for all that! It seems as though we could never pay enough for the pleasures of vanity.
Il y a une rose jaune. There is a yellow rose.
Il s'enfuit avec le diamant. He ran away with the diamond.
Toute rose a ses épines. Every rose has its thorns.
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