Sentence examples of "lâcher pied" in French
Il m’a fallu dix minutes pour me rendre à pied à la station de métro.
It took me ten minutes to walk to the metro station.
J'ai agrippé la corde aussi longtemps que j'ai pu, mais j'ai finalement dû la lâcher.
I held onto the rope for as long as I could but I finally had to let go.
Peut-être mon petit-enfant sera-t-il la première personne à poser le pied sur Mars.
Maybe my grandchild will be the first person to set foot on Mars.
C'était le genre de voiture étrange qui me disait envie de lâcher, "Qu'est-ce que c'est de ce truc ?"
It was the sort of weird car that made me want to blurt out, "what the heck is that?"
Vu que je ne sais pas trop nager, j'évite d'aller là où je n'ai pas pied.
As I'm not good at swimming, I avoid swimming out of my depth.
Elle ne voulait pas me lâcher jusqu'à ce que j'accepte d'aller avec elle au cinéma.
She wouldn't let up until I agreed to go to the movies with her.
Je lui ai dit de ne pas lâcher la corde, mais c'est ce qu'elle a fait.
I told her not to let go of the rope, but she did.
Il portait constamment son poids d'un pied sur l'autre.
He kept shifting his weight from one foot to the other.
Je n'aurais pas dû rentrer tard à la maison, à pied, de nuit, toute seul.
I shouldn't have walked home late at night by myself.
Quand ma femme croise les bras et tape du pied, je sais qu'elle est en colère.
When my wife crosses her arms and taps her foot I know she's angry.
Nous nous dirigeâmes vers un étang au pied de la colline.
We made for a pond at the foot of the hill.
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