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  • Faux amis is a GREAT subject for us right now as we are currently hosting a young woman (17 yr. s) from France on an exchange program for the next few weeks!

    faux amis - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • In French, we say les bons comptes font les bons amis, meaning that keeping money/business issues clear and clean preserves friendship or makes it, depending how you understand it.

    Advisors, Boards, Companies, Partners, Oh My! — Climb to the Stars 2007

  • La va falloir que j'me fasse d'autres "amis" ... ca va et 'chaud ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005

  • Irrespective of that, the fact that americans "amis" don't want to recognize is the faat that there is a bit of world outside of america.

    Balkinization 2005

  • My pilot Gerard Dupin lives 10 kilometres from here and half of Roanne knows him, this is cool, except that every time we see someone he knows - which is every ten seconds - the beast slews across the road as he waves to his 'amis'.

    PezCyclingNews.com 2009

  • My pilot Gerard Dupin lives 10 kilometres from here and half of Roanne knows him, this is cool, except that every time we see someone he knows - which is every ten seconds - the beast slews across the road as he waves to his 'amis'.

    PezCyclingNews.com 2009

  • But the question is not totally amis as I am swiftly becoming a feminist.

    Morgan Evans: How I Became an Unintentional (Male) Feminist Morgan Evans 2011

  • The cinema pursued this dialogue with kung fu pimping throughout the 20th century, and as a result, it became one of its meilleur amis.

    Les Cahiers du Kung Fu Pimping Cinema Con Chapman 2011

  • So for the moment I feel a wave of relief wash over me when I see mes amis each morning who won't expect me to tell them anything more than what I did last night.

    Katie Beck: Pardon My French: Our Heroine Struggles With the Language Katie Beck 2011

  • But the question is not totally amis as I am swiftly becoming a feminist.

    Morgan Evans: How I Became an Unintentional (Male) Feminist Morgan Evans 2011

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