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150 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	faire des caprices
Context:	"Mat, Mat es-tu là. Mes mains...Je sais qu'il est là." "Ecoute ce ne pas le temps de...
Keywords:	...fiare des caprices. Qui est Mat? Et pourquoi penses-tu qu'il serait là à cette heure?...A blind boy, classmate of Mat, is being led away from his house in the middle of the night as Mat hides in the bushes. The blind boy's hands always start to shake when Mat is anywhere near him. No translation that I foudn on the Internet seems appropriate.

 

The answer of Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL   was rated best

to have a tantrum/to play up

My comment:

...there are also a couple of very colloquial terms (in GB English) such as 'throw a wobbly' or 'go off on one'. However, my first thought when I think of 'faire des caprices' is always 'to have [or throw] a tantrum'. Or maybe that's what comes of having small children about the place?!

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