Sentence examples of "jeter dévolu" in French

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Je fais confiance aux ordinateurs pour autant que je puisse les jeter. I trust computers only as far as I can throw them.

Le rôle de Hamlet lui était dévolu. He was cast as Hamlet.

La grenade explosa avant que le terroriste ne puisse la jeter, et son bras fut déchiqueté ! The grenade blew up before the terrorist could throw it, and his arm was blown off!

Je suppose qu'il faut parfois se jeter à l'eau. I suppose I've got to get my feet wet sometime.

Ma femme m'a dit de jeter ce vieux chapeau. My wife told me to do away with this old hat.

Je prévois de jeter tout ça en l'air. Tu peux prendre ce qui te chante. I plan to throw all of this away. You may take whatever you like.

Je vais aller jeter un coup d'oeil à la maison. I will go and take a look at the house.

Voyant le fils d'une catin jeter des pierres à la foule : "Fais attention, lui dit-il, tu pourrais blesser ton père." Seeing the son of a whore throwing rocks at a crowd, he said: "Be careful, you could hit your father."

Puis-je y jeter un coup d'œil ? Might I have a look at this?

Puis-je jeter un œil au magazine ? Can I have a look at the magazine?

Elle est si pingre qu'elle utilise les sachets de thé trois fois avant de les jeter. She's so cheap that she uses tea bags three times before she throws them away.

Je lui ai dit de ne pas jeter de pierres. I told him not to throw stones.

Tu ferais aussi bien de jeter ton argent à la mer que de le lui prêter. You might as well throw your money into the sea as lend it to her.

Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu. We cannot tear a single page from our life, but we can throw the book into the fire.

Je pense que je vais jeter un œil aux alentours. I think I'll take a look around.

Que tu viennes et dises maintenant cette sorte de chose équivaudrait à jeter de l'huile sur le feu. For you to come out and say that kind of thing now would just be pouring oil on the fire.

J'aimerais que les passants arrêtent de jeter leurs canettes vides et autres ordures sur le sentier de montagne. I wish people would stop throwing away empty cans and other trash along the path up the mountain.

Elle est passée sans même me jeter un regard. She passed by without glancing at me.

Pouvez-vous jeter un oeil à mon rapport ? Will you look over my report?

Demain je vais jeter un melon d'eau du toit d'un immeuble de cinq étages, juste pour le plaisir. Tomorrow I'm going to throw a watermelon off the roof of a five-story building just for the hell of it.

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