Sentence examples of "catch on the wrong foot" in English
He was careless enough to get on the wrong train.
Il était suffisamment insouciant pour se tromper de train.
He does not seem to be able to catch on to what she is saying.
Il ne semble pas capable de saisir ce qu'elle dit.
Admitting what you say, I still think you are in the wrong.
Même en admettant ce que vous dites, je pense toujours que vous avez tort.
If we let our reasoning power be overshadowed by our emotions, we would be barking up the wrong tree all the time.
Si nous laissions nos émotions éclipser notre capacité à raisonner, nous nous retrouverions sans cesse à chercher des solutions aux mauvais problèmes.
We eat too much of the wrong food and not enough of the right food.
Nous mangeons trop de mauvaise et pas assez de bonne nourriture.
Nothing can take an American by surprise. It has often been said that the word "impossible" was not a French one. People have obviously looked in the wrong dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple and mechanical difficulties are overcome before they arise.
Rien ne saurait étonner un Américain. On a souvent répété que le mot "impossible" n’était pas français; on s’est évidemment trompé de dictionnaire. En Amérique, tout est facile, tout est simple, et quant aux difficultés mécaniques, elles sont mortes avant d’être nées.
There used to be a post office on the corner.
Il y avait avant un poste de police au coin de la rue.
When we entered the shack, we saw a half-eaten pie on the table.
En entrant dans la cabane, nous vîmes une tarte à moitié mangée sur la table.
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