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Listen: Hear Jean-Marc pronounce the word "boussole": Download boussole. wav
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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Listen: Hear Jean-Marc pronounce the word "boussole": Download boussole. wav
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Listen: Hear Jean-Marc pronounce the word "boussole": Download boussole. wav
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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Listen: Hear Jean-Marc pronounce the word "boussole": Download boussole.wav
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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Listen: Hear Jean-Marc pronounce the word "boussole": Download boussole.wav
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I couldn't help thinking of the French expression: "perdre la boussole" ( "perdre" = to lose and "la boussole" = compass) which means: to go round the bends, to go nuts.
The French word for plastered drunk... - French Word-A-Day 2010
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Expression: perdre la boussole = to lose one's head; to go haywire
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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Looking due south, toward the Mediterranean Sea la boussole (boo-sol) noun, feminine
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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Expression: perdre la boussole = to lose one's head; to go haywire
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There is an expression in French, "perdre la boussole," which means to "lose one's compass" and, figuratively, "to lose one's mind."
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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