Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
en disposait à la ferraille
English translation:
scrapping it / disposing of it
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Wyley Powell
Sep 15, 2019 16:11
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French term
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en disposait à la ferraille
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Letter fo a municipal mayor
This is a letter to a municipal mayo from a construction site engineer. Here's the context:
"Nous tenons à vous aviser qu’un incident aussi intolérable qu’inacceptable, rarissime et isolé, s’est produit vendredi dernier dans un stationnement réservé pour notre chantier de l’avenue XXX. Quelques individus de l’un de nos sous-traitants ont peint des graffitis haineux sur le véhicule de l’un de leurs confrères parce que celui-ci ***en disposait à la ferraille*** le jour même."
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"Nous tenons à vous aviser qu’un incident aussi intolérable qu’inacceptable, rarissime et isolé, s’est produit vendredi dernier dans un stationnement réservé pour notre chantier de l’avenue XXX. Quelques individus de l’un de nos sous-traitants ont peint des graffitis haineux sur le véhicule de l’un de leurs confrères parce que celui-ci ***en disposait à la ferraille*** le jour même."
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Proposed translations
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| 3 +8 | scrapping it / disposing of it |
Ulla Kask
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scrapping it / disposing of it
[...] as he ***was scrapping it / disposing of it*** the same day.
This is how I understand it, that a worker was about to get rid of his car (taking it to the scrap metal yard for example) and his colleagues covered it with hateful graffiti on the day he was about to do it.
Ferraille = scrap metal
This is how I understand it, that a worker was about to get rid of his car (taking it to the scrap metal yard for example) and his colleagues covered it with hateful graffiti on the day he was about to do it.
Ferraille = scrap metal
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Tony M
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B D Finch
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JaneD
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writeaway
: oeuf corse-everyday French
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Ph_B (X)
: yes, taking the vehicle to the scrapyard
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Cyril Tollari
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AllegroTrans
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Daryo
: Simply - what else?
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