Usage examples of "ficelles du métier" in French with translation to English

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Elle lui enseigna les ficelles du métier. She taught him the tricks of the trade.
Elle lui a enseigné les ficelles du métier. She taught him the tricks of the trade.
Tu peux aller chercher du pain à la boulangerie, deux petites et une grosse, s'il te plait ? Et s'ils n'en ont plus, tu peux prendre quatre ficelles à la place. Could you please go buy bread at the baker's, two small ones and a large one please? And if they ran out, you can buy four thin baguettes instead.
Il connaît son métier. He knows his job.
C'est le meilleur métier du monde ! It's the best job in the world!
Je crois que tu aimes ton métier. I believe you like your job.
Elle est compositeur de métier. She writes music for a living.
Son métier est médecin. He is a doctor by profession.
Il ne peut pas faire ce type de métier et elle non plus. He can't do this kind of work, and she can't either.
Vendre des voitures est mon métier. Selling cars is my job.
Comment avez-vous atterri dans ce métier ? How did you get into this line of work?
C'est mon métier. It's my job.
Chacun à son métier doit toujours s'attacher. Everyone should always attach oneself to one's trade.
J'ai un but, une tâche, disons le mot, une passion. Le métier d'écrire en est une violente et presque indestructible. I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible passion.
Mon métier est de faire la vaisselle. My job is to wash dishes.
Quel est ton métier ? What's your job?
Il a décidé de passer son métier à son fils. He has decided to turn over his business to his son.
Mon métier et mon art, c'est vivre. Living is my profession and my art.
Si tu fais triste mine dans ce métier, les clients ne viendront pas. In this line of work, if you make a grim face the customers won't come.
Je ne sais pas vraiment ce que je veux faire quand je serai plus grand, mais j'espère avoir un métier qui me plaît. I don't really know what I would like to be when I grow up, but I hope I have a job doing something I enjoy.
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