Usage examples of "haut en couleurs" in French with translation to English

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Elle découvrit un nouveau monde haut en couleurs. She discovered a new colourful world.
Les garçons ont tendance à regarder de haut leurs jeunes sœurs. Boys tend to look down on their younger sisters.
Les couleurs du drapeau américain sont rouge, blanc et bleu. The colors of the American flag are red, white and blue.
Haut les mains ! Hands up!
Un faisceau de lumière blanche est divisé par un prisme en rayons de différentes couleurs. A beam of white light is split by a prism into rays of various colors.
L'animal en haut à gauche est censé être un dragon. The animal in the top left-hand corner is meant to be a dragon.
Je n'aime pas ton goût pour les couleurs. I don't like your taste in color.
Toute cette affaire pue au plus haut point. This whole affair stinks to high heaven.
Le caméléon peut prendre les couleurs de son environnement. The chameleon can take on the colors of its background.
Je soulevai ma fille de telle sorte qu'elle puisse placer l'étoile au haut de l'arbre de Noël. I lifted my daughter up so she could put the star on top of the Christmas tree.
À la campagne, les couleurs du ciel et du feuillage sont entièrement différentes de celles qu'on voit en ville. In the country, the colors of the sky and of the foliage are entirely different from those seen in the city.
Lorsque les vaches volent haut et les boeufs volent bas, c'est qu'il y a probablement une tornade. When the cow flies high and the ox flies low, there probably is a twister.
Elle aime porter des couleurs sombres. She likes to wear dark colours.
Quand Vin Diesel fait des pompes, ce n'est pas lui qui se pousse en haut - c'est la terre qui est poussée en bas. When Vin Diesel does pushups, he's not pushing himself up - he's pushing the Earth down.
Tu peux voir ici de belles combinaisons de couleurs. Here you can see beautiful colour combinations.
L'exemple ne rentre dans aucune des catégories énoncées plus haut. The example doesn't fall into any type stated above.
Certaines personnes sont daltoniennes : elles ne peuvent pas différencier certaines couleurs. Some people are color blind; they cannot tell one color from another.
Achète bas, vends haut ! Buy low, sell high.
Un artiste doit avoir le sens des couleurs. An artist must have an eye for color.
Une plus grande demande pour du café de haute qualité a contribué à tirer les prix vers le haut. Greater demand for high-quality coffee has helped drive coffee prices higher.
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