laisser sa peau
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɛ.se sa po/, /le.se sa po/
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Verb
- to perish, not to make it
- 1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, →ISBN, p. 298; translated 1992 by Robyn Marsack as The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland, →ISBN:
- C’est l’extrémité méridionale du désert du Lout où, bon an mal an, pour un axe cassé, pour une batterie séchée par le soleil, une demi-douzaine de chauffeurs laissent leur peau.
- — It was the southern extremity of the Lut desert where year in, year out, half a dozen drivers turn to dust because of a broken axle or a battery dried out by the sun.
- 1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, →ISBN, p. 298; translated 1992 by Robyn Marsack as The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland, →ISBN:
References
- “peau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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