Sentence examples of "tranchant" in French
Si vous lui faites ça, vous vous tranchez la gorge.
If you do that to him, you will cut your throat.
Nombreux sont ceux qui baisent la main qu'ils souhaitent trancher.
Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off.
Être un anglophone est à double tranchant. D'un côté, tu parles la langue la plus utile au monde à la perfection; mais de l'autre, personne ne veut parler une autre langue avec toi, ce qui rend difficile l'apprentissage d'une langue étrangère.
Being an anglophone is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you speak perfectly the world's most useful language. But on the other, no one wants to speak anything else with you - making foreign language acquisition difficult.
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