Usage examples of "connaître comme ta poche" in French with translation to English

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Que considères-tu comme ta plus grande réussite ? What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Comme ta sœur est jolie ! How pretty your sister is!
Il connaît cet endroit comme sa poche. He knows every inch of this area.
M. Wright parle japonais comme si c'était sa langue maternelle. Mr Wright speaks Japanese as if it were his mother tongue.
Il semble nous connaître. He seems to know us.
Quatre ou cinq stylos dans sa poche de chemise, ça trahit bien un binoclard. Four or five pens in one's shirt pocket is a dead giveaway for a nerd.
J'ai avancé le nom de Paul comme candidat possible. I put Paul's name forward as a possible candidate.
Jim semble connaître l'art de faire des filles des amies. Jim seems to know the art of making friends with girls.
C'est dans la poche de ma veste. It's in my jacket pocket.
Aime ton prochain comme toi-même. You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Se connaître soi-même n'est pas simple. To know oneself is not easy.
Le garçon a une pomme dans sa poche. The boy has an apple in his pocket.
Il disait que parler le mandarin est comme de manger de l'ananas. Ça le démange partout. He said that speaking Chinese is like eating pineapple. It makes him itchy all over.
Meg est curieuse de connaître tout sur le Japon. Meg is curious to know everything about Japan.
Montre-moi ce que tu as dans la poche. Show me what you have in your pocket.
Les filetages à gauches sont devenus rares en mécanique mais on les trouve encore sur certains objets, comme sur les pédaliers de vélo, par exemple. Left-hand threads have now become unsual in mechanics but they can still be found on some objects, such as on bicycles' pedals, for instance.
Lors de mon adolescence, je détestais la vie et j'étais continuellement au bord du suicide, mais j'en étais écarté par le désir de connaître plus de mathématiques. In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.
Ma veste comporte une poche secrète où je peux cacher de l'argent ou d'autres objets de valeur. My jacket has a secret pocket where I can hide money or other valuables.
Comme d'habitude avec lui, il est arrivé en retard. As is often the case with him, he came late.
Chokichi sentait vivement que les gens, à mesure qu'ils vieillissent, oublient entièrement les soucis que seuls les jeunes peuvent connaître et dont ils ont eux-mêmes fait l'expérience dans leur jeunesse ; et qu'ils prennent nonchalamment cette attitude facile où ils jugent durement les circonstances des jeunes de la nouvelle génération. Il sentait qu'il y avait réellement une distance irréconciliable entre les vieux et les jeunes. Chokichi keenly felt that people, as they get older, forget entirely about the worries that only young people know about and that they themselves experienced in their youth; and that they nonchalantly take this convenient disposition where they judge harshly the circumstances of the young persons born of the next generation. He felt that there was truly an irreconcilable gap between the old and the young.
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