Usage examples of "mors à canon brisé" in French with translation to English

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La poudre à canon doit être manipulée avec beaucoup de précautions. Gunpowder needs to be handled very carefully.
Les Étasuniens ne disposaient que de très peu de poudre à canon. The Americans had very little gunpowder.
Les soldats espagnols utilisaient de la poudre à canon qui ne produit pas de fumée. The Spanish soldiers used smokeless gunpowder.
T'as une amie canon. You've got a cute friend.
Le cheval s'impatientait avec son mors en bouche. The horse chafed at the bit put in its mouth.
Le pare-brise d'une voiture fut brisé. The front windshield of a car was smashed to pieces.
Le son d'un baiser n'est pas aussi fort que celui d'un canon, mais son écho dure beaucoup plus longtemps. The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.
Elle ne peut pas avoir brisé sa promesse. She cannot have broken her promise.
Elle est canon, mec ! Dude, she's hot!
La fille a brisé la fenêtre. The girl broke the window.
Faites jouer du canon à l'approche de l'ennemi. Bring the guns into play when the enemy approaches us.
Qui a brisé le vase ? Who broke the vase?
Vous avez une amie canon. You've got a cute friend.
Il essaya de rassembler les morceaux d'un vase brisé. He tried to put the fragments of a broken vase together.
Pote pote les carottes, à la place des tomates, boule de canon tu fiches le camp ! Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, catch a tiger by his toe, if he hollers let him go, eeny, meeny, miny, moe. My mother told me to catch the very best one and you are not it.
Il fut brisé par l'échec de son affaire. He was broken by the failure of his business.
Ne jamais utiliser de canon pour tuer une mouche. Never use a cannon to kill a fly.
Tom est celui qui a brisé sa fenêtre hier. Tom is the one who broke the window yesterday.
On dit que ce canon est très puissant. This gun is reportedly very powerful.
Je ne peux supporter ce cœur brisé plus longtemps. Je dois cesser de penser à elle. I can bear this broken heart no longer.
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