Glossary entry

français term or phrase:

s'accrocher une nouvelle casserole

anglais translation:

to get into hot water again

Added to glossary by Stephanie Mitchel
Jan 23, 2003 23:24
22 yrs ago
français term

accrocher une nouvelle casserole

français vers anglais Affaires / Finance mergers & acquisitions
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"Il faut dire que, trois mois plus tôt, un certain nombre de cadres du Trésor avaient découvert dans 'Le Canard' les détails de ce dossier. Et ces fonctionnaires ne voulaient à aucun prix se voir accrocher une nouvelle casserole... Les résultats du premier tour des législatives ont amplifié leurs hurlements."

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to get (themselves) into hot water again

How Microsoft Got Itself Into Hot Water. Again. DOJ Expands Probe to Include Java When you taunt the referee, he usually watches you even more closely. That's what happened to Microsoft, whose
www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_1888.html

Peer Pressure - Peer to peer computing in a business environment. Even before Napster got into hot water with record companies last fall over its peer-to-peer music-sharing system, the...
www.pcmag.com/article2/0,,34504,00.asp

... interviews (even Playboy can be an acceptable source at times; President Jimmy Carter got into political hot water over an interview there), or summaries of current topics of interest. Acceptability ...
www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/paperref.htm
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agree Yolanda Broad
3 jours 2 heures
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Yes! thanks."
+3
39 minutes

to have a new scandal attributed to them

in the sense of "casserole" as a big problem.
Peer comment(s):

agree RHELLER : I found this: lui accroche une casserole bien encombrante sur laquelle est écrit " dopage ".
2 heures
agree Louise Dupont (X)
2 heures
agree Ioana Bostan
6 heures
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4 heures

be dogged by some new scandal

Suggestion!
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agree GerardP : I like this one
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agree cjohnstone
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agree Clair Pickworth : sounds good!
8 heures
agree Jim Collis : best of the proposals
10 heures
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8 heures

... tarred with yet another brush.

Another suggestion.
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9 heures

to be smeared by (or involved in) yet another ringing scandal

ringing car les casseroles font du bruit
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17 heures

bang another pan on their heads

or 'get themselves into another stew' also preserves the casserole image
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