Usage examples of "homme - grenouille" in French with translation to English

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Chaque homme a son caractère. Every man has his humor.
Nous disséquâmes une grenouille pour examiner ses organes internes. We dissected a frog to examine its internal organs.
J'ai croisé un jeune homme sur la rue. I passed a boy in the street.
L'humour peut être disséqué comme une grenouille, mais la chose meurt dans l'opération et les entrailles rebutent quiconque à l'exception du pur esprit scientifique. Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
Un honnête homme ne ferait pas une chose pareille. An honest man would not do such a thing.
Une grenouille dans un puits n'a pas conscience de l'océan. A frog in a well doesn't know the ocean.
Cet homme est mort. That man is dead.
Une grenouille sortit de l'eau. A frog came out of the water.
Si tu vois un homme, présume que c'est un voleur. Never trust a stranger.
Le prince a été transformé par magie en une grenouille. The prince was turned by magic into a frog.
Qui est cet homme qui joue du piano ? Who is the man playing the piano?
J'emploierai la magie contre lui et le changerai en grenouille. I'll use magic on him and turn him into a frog.
Elle le laissa tomber pour un homme plus jeune. She dumped him for a younger man.
Le prince a été transformé en grenouille. The prince was changed into a frog.
Le vieil homme préfère les calèches aux voitures. The old man prefers horse carriages to cars.
J'ai une grenouille dans la gorge. I've got a frog in my throat.
Ce vieil homme est difficile pour la nourriture. That old man is a fussy eater.
Le serpent a avalé une grenouille. The snake swallowed a frog.
Il était une fois, un vieil homme vivait là. Once upon a time, there lived an old man.
Jo-Jo était un homme qui pensait être un solitaire. Jo-Jo was a man who thought he was a loner.
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