Usage examples of "mousse de canard" in French with translation to English

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Il fait un froid de canard ce soir. It's awfully cold this evening.
Il a fait un froid de canard hier. It was terribly cold yesterday.
Il fait un froid de canard It is bitterly cold
La vache fait "meuh", le coq fait "cocorico", le cochon fait "groin, groin", le canard fait "coin, coin" et le chat fait "miaou". The cow goes "moo," the rooster goes "cock-a-doodle-doo," the pig goes "oink, oink," the duck goes "quack, quack" and the cat goes "meow."
Les voilà couchées, les quatre belles, sur l'herbe ou sur la mousse, et dans ce lieu charmant, à l'heure òu le soir marche à pas de loup dans les bois. Here they lay, the four pretty ones, on the grass on on the moss, in this charming place, at the time when the evening tiptoes in the woods.
La vache meugle, le coq chante, le cochon grouine, le canard cancane, et le chat miaule. The cow goes "moo," the rooster goes "cock-a-doodle-doo," the pig goes "oink, oink," the duck goes "quack, quack" and the cat goes "meow."
Il utilise un rasoir classique avec de la mousse à raser pour un rasage de plus près. He uses an old-style razor, with shaving cream, for a closer shave.
Il a préparé une sauce aux airelles pour accompagner le canard. He made a cranberry sauce to accompany duck.
"Pierre qui roule n'amasse pas mousse" est un proverbe. "A rolling stone gathers no moss" is a proverb.
Où est le canard en caoutchouc ? Where is the rubber duck?
Pierre qui roule n'amasse pas mousse A rolling stone gathers no moss
Les commentateurs ont décrit le son des vuvuzelas comme "épuisant" et "satanique" et l'ont comparé avec "un troupeau d'éléphants en furie", "un amas assourdissant de sauterelles", "une chèvre allant à l'abattoir", "une gigantesque ruche remplie d'abeilles en furie", et à un "canard drogué aux amphétamines". Commentators have variously described the sound of vuvuzelas as "annoying" and "satanic" and compared it with "a stampede of noisy elephants", "a deafening swarm of locusts", "a goat on the way to slaughter", "a giant hive full of very angry bees", and "a duck on speed".
Tim est le vilain petit canard des Jones. Tim is the black sheep of the Jones' family.
Ça casse pas trois pattes à un canard It's nothing to write home about
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