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194 months ago

anca (a guest user) asked this question:

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194 months ago

   wrote:

une vraie ménagerie

194 months ago

Claude Le Frapper   wrote:

mission impossible

My comment:

Cats have the reputation of being impossible to control, unlike sheep or dogs

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194 months ago

Claude Le Frapper   wrote:

mission impossible

My comment:

Cats have the reputation of being impossible to control, unlike sheep or dogs

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194 months ago

Claude Le Frapper   wrote:

Moutons de Panurge

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194 months ago

myrthe   wrote:

Bertrand, c'est le nom de l'exercice qu'on recherche. Je pense finalement que "mission casse-gueule" conviendrait http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/musique/jazz/laika-fatien-misery_737528.html

194 months ago

Claude Le Frapper   wrote:

être en désaccord/ en couteaux tirés avec

My comment:

Enfin se sont rassemblés 15 participants, chacun en désaccord avec l'autre.

If you have to try to co-ordinate a very difficult situation, where people want to do very different things, you are herding cats.

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194 months ago

myrthe   wrote:

une autre posssibilité: un exercise bien difficile à coordonner

194 months ago

myrthe   wrote:

une autre posssibilité: un exercise bien difficile à coordonner

194 months ago

Claude Le Frapper   wrote:

être en désaccord/ en couteaux tirés avec

My comment:

Enfin se sont rassemblés 15 participants, chacun en désaccord avec l'autre.

If you have to try to co-ordinate a very difficult situation, where people want to do very different things, you are herding cats.

194 months ago

myrthe   wrote:

'Herding cats" (perdre de temps)

My comment:

I would not translate Herding cats and add the meaning into brackets

Un effort qui sera probablement inutile ou au moins très très difficile à accomplir.

"Herding cats"= English idiom: To perform an unpleasant task made difficult by uncooperative or unresponsive persons or other factors

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194 months ago

myrthe   wrote:

"Herding cats" (Perte de temps)