Usage examples of "feu de paille" in French with translation to English

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N'est-ce pas un simple feu de paille ? Isn't that just a brush fire?
N'est-ce pas un simple feu de brousse ? Isn't that just a brush fire?
Je suis très attaché à ce vieux chapeau de paille. I am very much attached to this old straw hat.
Un feu de forêt se déclara dans cette zone. A forest fire broke out in this area.
Un homme de paille vaut une femme en or. A man of straw is worth a woman of gold.
Les enfants chantent autour du feu de camp. The children are singing around the camp fire.
À Hokkaido, ils font des chevaux de paille. In Hokkaido, they make horses of straw.
Il fait feu de tout bois. He turns everything to good account.
N'est-ce pas un simple feu de prairie ? Isn't that just a prairie fire?
Un petit feu de forêt peut facilement se répandre et rapidement devenir un grand incendie. A small forest fire can easily spread and quickly become a great conflagration.
Le feu détruisit entièrement le bâtiment. The fire consumed the whole building.
Ça fait une paille. Long time, no see.
L'Homme est le seul animal à utiliser le feu. Man is the only fire-using animal.
Durant le premier mois suivant l'accident, elle ne pouvait que boire des liquides à la paille. For the first month after the accident she could only drink liquids through a straw.
Le feu est au vert. A green light is on.
Comment vas-tu ? Ça fait une paille que je ne t'ai pas vu ! How are you doing? I haven't seen you in ages!
Le pompier démontra comment on éteint le feu. The fire fighter demonstrated how to put out the fire.
Bah ! Ça fait une paille. Wow! It's been a long time.
Un feu s'est déclaré la nuit dernière. A fire broke out last night.
C'est la paille et la poutre It's the pot calling the kettle black
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