Tautologies of february 2021

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Tx Florent

On And Sion is stupid
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Caution: Fire is hot
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Sign around outdoor restaurant fire pit, Vancouver, Canada

I don't understand ! 

"Le feu est chaud"
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On "If the cigar fit"
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Tipping Point host Ben Shephard: Which world leader did the CIA make over six hundred attemps at assassinating, including one with an exploding cigar?
Contestant : It must be an american. I'll say Bill Clinton.
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To fit = s'adapter
To make over = refaire
Assassinating = assassiner

The smoking gun (or um, cigar?).

On Kinda makes you think ...
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I'm the oldest I've ever been, right now.
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MMA fighter and UFC chamoon Tim Sylvia
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Kinda = en quelque sorte

MMA = Mixed Martial Art
UFC = Ultimate Fighting Championship

I'm the oldest I've ever been, right now.

of course !

On defense ploys, dumb
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Defense: I move for continuance on the ground that a witness for the defense is not present in court.
Judge: Well, why don't we call the list of witnesses and see who's here?
[The list of witnesses is called in open court and the supposedly "absent" witness answers, "present"]
Defense attorney: Your Honor, I now move for continuance on the grounds of surpri. He promised me he wouldn't be here.
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From court transcipts
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To ploy = se tromper
Dumb = stupid
To move for continuance on the ground = se déplacer pour continuer sur le terrain
Attorney = avocat

Ploy= stratagème I think

On technicalities, overly technical
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Cheating police
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Eleven National City police officers were caught cheating on a promotion exam. However, no disciplinary action was taken against them, because they had not been instructed not to cheat.
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From the Los Angeles Times
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Overly = trop
To cheat = tricher
to be caught cheaping = être surpris en train de tricher

On the US constitution, surprising renaissance origins of
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Maybe I should other a good thanks to the dinstinguished members of the majority, the Republicans, my chairman and others, for giiving us an opportunity to have the deliberative constitutional discussion that reinforce the sanctity of this nation and how well it is that we have lasted some some 400 years, operating under a constiturion that clearly defines what is constitutional and what is not.
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Representative Sheila Jackson Lee
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Sur la constitution américaine, surprenantes origines de la renaissance
Peut-être devrais-je remercier les membres éminents de la majorité, les républicains, mon président et d'autres, pour nous avoir donné l'occasion d'avoir la discussion constitutionnelle délibérative qui renforce le caractère sacré de cette nation et à quel point nous avons duré. quelque 400 ans, fonctionnant sous une constitution qui définit clairement ce qui est constitutionnel et ce qui ne l'est pas.
Représentante Sheila Jackson Lee
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On meanwhile, across the pond ...
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Another broom snaped in half in Derbyshire village
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Headline, Derbyshire Times (UK)
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Across = de l'autre coté
The pond = l'étang
The broom = un balai
To snap = casser

On point, mindless
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It is okay to change your mind as an opinion writer; what is not okay is to not have a mind
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Pundit Thomas Friedman in his new book, "Thank you being late"
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A pundit = un expert

That’s true that you are a completely different version of yourself right now

On emergency, evaporated
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Woman : I want to report a missing person. I have'nt be out to check on him for five hours but I went outside.... and he's gone.
999 opérator: Who's gone?
Woman : my snowman. I thought that with it being icy and there's not being anybody about he'd safe.

On no comment
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Say "eye yam stew peed" 4 times fast y'all gotta try this lol somebody jus got me
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Tweet by basketball player
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It looks like american slang. I wim in the semoule to translate.

From the mythological deprivation département
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The Chase host Bradley Walsh: Which part of the Medusa's body was made up of snakes?.
Cintestant: Her lower abdomen.
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deprivation = privation

She had snake locks, because they were a punishment from Athena.