Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

"Slugs" et "slug pellet"

French translation:

granules contre les limaces

Added to glossary by RHELLER
Feb 17, 2006 01:56
18 yrs ago
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English term

"Slugs" et "slug pellet"

English to French Other Slang
LIKE MOST PEOPLE I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't mater what. She was in the white corner and that was that. She hung out the largest sheets on the windiest days. She wanted the Mormons to knock on the door. At election time in a labour mill town she put a picture of the Conservative candidate in the window. She had never heard of mixed feelings. There were friends and there were enemies.
Enemies were:

The Devil (in his many forms)
Next Door Sex (in its many forms)
SLUGS

Friends were:

God
Our dog
Auntie Madge
The Novels of Charlotte Brontë
SLUG PELLETS

and me, at first, I had been brought in to join her in a tag match against the Rest of the World. She had a mysterious attitude towards the begetting of children; it wasn't that she couldn't do it, more that she didn't want to do it. She was very bitter about the Virgin Mary getting there first. So she did the next best thing and arranged for a foundling. That was me.

* Il n'est pas obligatoire de proposer une traduction, mais j'ai besoin de savoir le sens de cette expression. J'ai besoin de savoir si "slugs", fait référence à de l'alcool ("a slug of whisky") ou à une limace, tout simplement.
Proposed translations (French)
3 +6 limaces/ poison contre les limaces
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Proposed translations

+6
3 hrs
English term (edited): slugs/slug pellets
Selected

limaces/ poison contre les limaces

does not have to do with alcohol IMO

never heard of mixed feelings means everything was good or bad
slugs are bad
slug pellets are good (they will kill the bad slugs)

Slugs in your GardenSlug Pellets are a common form of control. Most of these pellets contain metaldehyde, ... There are some slug pellets which contain methiocarb which is a ...
www.rootrainers.co.uk/guide/slugs

Poison contre les limaces (contenant du métaldéhyde)Provenance: Poison d'absorption contre les limaces. Poison répandu dans les zones agricoles et les jardins Degré de toxicité: très toxique ...
www.protection-animaux.ch/ empoisonnements/Detail/molluskizid_1.html

Peer comment(s):

agree Rosa Enciso
15 mins
merci, Rosa !
agree PFB (X) : pellets = granules (plus précis que "poison"), donc "antilimace granulé, granules contre les limaces", etc.
3 hrs
merci de tes précisions :-)
agree marie-christine périé
3 hrs
merci, Marie-Christine :-)
agree ludostef
3 hrs
merci, Ludostef :-)
agree Mikaele (X)
4 hrs
merci, Mikaele !
agree Anna Quail
9 hrs
merci !
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