Usage examples of "double dames" in French with translation to English

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« Les consommations sont-elles gratuites ? » « Seulement pour les dames. » "Are the drinks free?" "Only for ladies."
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.
On ne vend ici que des chaussures pour dames. Only girls' shoes are sold here.
Il laça la chaussure de son fils en faisant un double nœud et il dit : «Voilà, ça devrait aller comme ça.» He tied his son's shoe with a double knot and said, "There, that should do the trick."
Les dames d'abord ! Ladies first!
Les prix sont le double de ce qu'ils étaient il y a dix ans. Prices are double what they were ten years ago.
Le hall d'exposition de notre société a été un succès auprès des dames. Our company's showroom was a hit with the ladies.
Ce mot a un double sens. This word has a double meaning.
J'ai vu un homme bizarre avec des lunettes noires, tourner autour des toilettes pour dames. I saw a strange man with dark glasses loitering near the girls bathroom.
Je lui ai offert un briquet à double flamme que j'ai acheté aux États-Unis. I offered him a double-flame lighter that I bought in the United States.
Les échecs et les dames sont leurs jeux favoris. Chess and checkers are favorites with them.
J'ai le double de ton âge. I'm twice your age.
À l'époque, j'adorais jouer aux dames. Back in those days, I loved to play checkers.
Huit est le double de quatre. Eight is the double of four.
Tom danse avec les dames. Tom is dancing with the ladies.
J'ai bu un double express brûlant au café ce matin. I drank a very hot double espresso at the coffee shop this morning.
Il pluma trois vieilles dames de leurs maigres retraites. He fleeced three old ladies of their meager pensions.
Être un anglophone est à double tranchant. D'un côté, tu parles la langue la plus utile au monde à la perfection; mais de l'autre, personne ne veut parler une autre langue avec toi, ce qui rend difficile l'apprentissage d'une langue étrangère. Being an anglophone is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you speak perfectly the world's most useful language. But on the other, no one wants to speak anything else with you - making foreign language acquisition difficult.
Il évite de tenir compagnie à ces dames. He avoids keeping company with those ladies.
Son âge est le double du sien. He is as old again as she is.
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