Translation of "passoire fine" to English

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Dictionary translations for "passoire fine"

la passoire fine f noun

pl. passoires fines

round strainer (groupe nominal, récipient percé de trous)

Contexts with "passoire fine"

Les Français sont vraiment un peuple bizarre : parmi ceux qui lisent cette phrase, un sur deux va vérifier si l'espace avant le double point est bien fine et insécable. The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking.

Non, tu ne peux pas te mettre la passoire sur la tête ; tu feras l'astronaute après que j'aurai égoutté les pâtes. No, you may not put the colander on your head; you can be an astronaut after I drain the pasta.

Le sous-marin dut sourdre au travers d'une fine couche de glace. The submarine had to break through a thin sheet of ice to surface.

J'ai une mémoire de passoire. I have a memory like a sieve.

Qui aurait pensé qu'elle put être aussi fine et petite ? Who would have thought that she could be so thin and small?

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