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Pootling around
the B crowd

Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

windswept

French translation:

échevelé

Added to glossary by Olivier Den Hartigh
Jul 15, 2014 14:48
9 yrs ago
English term

windswept

English to French Art/Literary Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
We quite like pootling around but try to be more windswept and interesting, as Billy Connolly always said.
Proposed translations (French)
3 +1 échevelé
4 débraillé

Discussion

HERBET Abel Jul 15, 2014:
de balayer plus large et de façon intéressante, mon idée
Tony M Jul 15, 2014:
Billy Connolly I think as it's a quote, you really need to look at 'windswept and interesting' as an entity, since I don't think a one-for-one literal translation will be any help at all here.

Proposed translations

+1
1 day 15 hrs
Selected

échevelé

au propre et au figuré
Reference:

http://dictionnaire.reverso.net/anglais-francais/windswept

Peer comment(s):
agree Jocelyne Cuenin : se voit souvent dans "avoir un côté échevelé", va bien avec les années 50 pour B. Connolly (d'après Wiki) - http://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/être_échevelé/...
7 hrs
merci !
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Merci beaucoup"
1 hr

débraillé

C'est vrai, qu'on aime vadrouiller un tantinet, mais essaie tout de même d’être (ou de paraître) un peu plus débraillé et plus intéressant.
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