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avoir tout pour soi: to have everything going for one, to have everything
avoir toute honte bue: to have lost any sense of shame, to have become impervious to shame, to be shameless
avoir toute sa tête: to have one's wits about one, to have all one's marbles, to be all there
avoir trait à: to relate to, to have to do with, to be connected with, to concern
avoir tôt fait de: to waste no time in doing something
avoir un balai dans le cul: to have a stick up one's ass, to have a pole up one's ass, to be stuck-up
avoir un chat dans la gorge: to have a frog in one's throat (be unable to speak freely)
avoir un cheveu sur la langue: to lisp, to have a lisp
avoir un coup dans l'aile: to have had one too many, to be the worse for drink, to be tipsy
avoir un cœur d'artichaut: to be a hopeless romantic, to fall in love easily; to be a soft touch, to be mellow, sensitive, to be easily softened up
avoir un cœur de pierre: to be stonehearted, to be heartless, to have no heart
avoir un grain: to be crazy, to be strangely behaved
avoir un métro de retard: to be running late; to be slow to catch on, to lag behind
avoir un petit creux: to be peckish, to be a little hungry
avoir un pied dans la tombe: to have one foot in the grave
avoir un poil dans la main: to be bone-idle, to be extremely lazy
avoir un polichinelle dans le tiroir: to have a bun in the oven (to be pregnant; to be expecting a baby)
avoir un ticket: to have something going with, to make an impression on, to be sexually attractive to, to be fancied by
avoir un train de retard: to be slow to catch on, to lag behind
avoir un train à prendre: to be in a hurry
avoir un verre dans le nez: to be slightly inebriated (tipsy), or rather strongly so (drunk); to have had one too many, to have had a drop too much
avoir un œil qui dit merde à l'autre: to be cross-eyed, to be squint-eyed, to squint
avoir un œuf à peler: to have a score to settle
avoir une araignée au plafond: to have bats in one's belfry
avoir une brioche au four: to have a bun in the oven
avoir une brique dans le ventre: to be interested in the building trade, in the real estate business, or in houses in general; to want to have one's own house
avoir une case de vide: to be crazy; to have a screw loose
avoir une case en moins: to have a screw loose, to be a few sandwiches short of a picnic
avoir une dent contre: to have it in for, have a bone to pick with
avoir une idée derrière la tête: to have something in mind, to have an ulterior motive, to be up to something
avoir une longueur d'avance: to have a head start, to have an edge
avoir une sainte horreur: to hate, to loathe, to have a horror of, to hate with a passion
avoir une touche: to make an impression on, to be sexually attractive to
avoir une tête et des jambes: to have a combination of intelligence and athleticism; to have brain and brawn
avoir vent: to get wind of
avoir ville gagnée: to have it in the bag, to be in a position where victory is assured
avoir à cœur: To have one's heart set on
avoir à l'usure: to wear (someone) down (to eventually persuade (someone) through persistent effort, for example by asking them repeatedly)
avoir à l'œil: to keep an eye on, to keep tabs on
avoir à la bonne: to be well-disposed towards, to look kindly on, to have a soft spot for, to like
avoir à voir: to have to do with
avoir élevé les cochons ensemble: synonym of avoir gardé les cochons ensemble
avoir été bercé trop près du mur: to have been dropped on one's head as a child (to be simple-minded, to be dim-witted, to be stupid)
avoisinant: neighbouring, bordering
avoisiner: to neighbor/neighbour (to be near to, or the neighbor of); to border on (be similar to)
avornine: avornin
avortement: abortion, termination
avorter: to fail, to come to an end; to have an abortion; to abort, to terminate; to cause an abortion; (of a procedure) To end in a mistrial.
avorteur: abortionist
avortoir: abortion clinic; abortion mill, abortuary
avorton: little runt; miscarriage, abortion, stunted effort (something deformed or incomplete)
avouable: respectable, reputable; blameless
avouer: to avow; to confess; to approve
avoueur: confessor
avoué: solicitor; attorney
avoyer: avoyer
avr.: abbreviation of avril (“April”): Apr
avril: April, the fourth month of the Gregorian calendar, having 30 days
avulsion: avulsion
avunculaire: uncle; avuncular; aunt; materteral; avunculate (pertaining to a society where the avunculate is of central importance)