Usage examples of "de maison en maison" in French with translation to English

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Il a commencé sa carrière avec une petite charrette à légumes qu'il conduisait de maison en maison. He began his career with a small vegetable cart which he took around from house to house.
Il n'avait pas de maison pour vivre. He had no house to live in.
À qui est la maison en face de la vôtre ? Whose house is across from yours?
Ayant découvert la disparition de nombre de petits objets de la maison, je commence à penser que ma femme de maison a tendance à piquer. Having found a number of small items missing from my house, I'm starting to think that my housekeeper has sticky fingers.
Je n'ai aucune intention de mettre la maison en location. I have no idea of letting the house.
Je n'aime pas ce genre de maison. I don't like this type of house.
Je peux supporter une maison en désordre, mais je ne l'aime pas si elle est sale. I can put up with a house being untidy but I don't like it to be dirty.
Il n'a pas de maison où vivre. He has no house in which to live.
Ah ! Si j'étais riche, je m'achèterais une maison en Espagne. Ah! If I were rich, I'd buy myself a house in Spain.
N'ayez pas de maison, ayez un voisin. Don't have a house, have a neighbour.
Elle nettoyait la maison en préparation de la fête. She was cleaning the house in preparation for a party.
Combien d'employées de maison est-ce que la dame veut employer ? How many maids does that lady want to employ?
Je n'ai pas réussi à attraper le dernier bus et suis rentré à la maison en taxi. I failed to catch the last bus, and came home by taxi.
Un entrepôt plein de feux d'artifice a explosé et a détruit un pâté de maison entier. A warehouse full of illegal fireworks blew up and destroyed a whole city block.
Il me faut mettre la maison en ordre alors je suis occupé à l'instant. I've got to get the house in order, so I'm busy now.
Nous avons peint la maison en vert. We painted the house green.
Les pompiers se précipitèrent à l'intérieur de la maison en feu. The firemen rushed into the burning house.
Elle a mis sa maison en vente. She has put her house up for sale.
Il a secouru l'enfant de la maison en feu. He rescued the child from the burning house.
Elle a une maison en bord de mer. She has a cottage by the sea.
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