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as dull as apple pie

French translation: tristes comme la pluie

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English term or phrase:	as dull as apple pie
French translation:	tristes comme la pluie
Entered by:	Virginie Ebongué

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23:00 Jan 27, 2012

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English term or phrase: as dull as apple pie

Il s'agit d'une citation de Robert Capa :
"I am not happy at all. The hundred and ninety million Russians are against me. They are not holding wild meetings on street corners, do not practice spectacular free love, do not have any kind of new look, they are very righteous, moral, hard-working people, for a photographer as dull as apple pie."

Je cherche une expression aussi colorée pour ma traduction. Auriez-vous des idées ?
D'avance, merci de votre aide et bon week-end.

Virginie Ebongué KudoZ activity Questions: 657 (none open) (16 closed without grading) Answers: 140 Italy
Local time: 13:38

tristes comme la pluie

Explanation:
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Selected response from:

Christine Correcher
Local time: 13:38

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Merci beaucoup !
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Summary of answers provided

3 +2

tristes comme la pluie

Christine Correcher

3 +1

d'une banalité affligeante

Stephanie Bellumat, trad.a.

aussi inoffensif qu'une tarte aux pommes

wolfheart

ennuyeux comme la pluie

Marinette Somerville

rien de bien folichon

Petitavoine

aussi gais qu'une porte de prison

AntoineH

gais comme le canal

Alcime Steiger

aussi ennuyeux qu'inoffensifs

Anne R

Answers

7 mins confidence:

aussi inoffensif qu'une tarte aux pommes

Explanation:
juste une idée...

wolfheart
Local time: 07:38
Meets criteria
Native speaker of:

German,

French

22 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

tristes comme la pluie

Explanation:
...

Christine Correcher
Local time: 13:38
Meets criteria
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Merci beaucoup !

1 hr confidence:

gais comme le canal

Explanation:
si vous pouvez vous autoriser cette formule humoristique que j'emprunte à Jacques Brel

Reference: http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/gai_comme_le_canal

Alcime Steiger
France
Local time: 13:38
Meets criteria
Native speaker of:

French

11 hrs confidence:

aussi gais qu'une porte de prison

Explanation:
Une autre suggestion

AntoineH
Local time: 13:38
Meets criteria
Works in field
Native speaker of:

French

16 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

d'une banalité affligeante

Explanation:
une autre proposition....

Stephanie Bellumat, trad.a.
France
Local time: 13:38
Meets criteria
Works in field
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 30

16 hrs confidence:

aussi ennuyeux qu'inoffensifs

Explanation:
...

Example sentence(s):

aussi ennuyeux qu'inoffensifs

Anne R
Italy
Local time: 13:38
Meets criteria
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 4

1 day17 hrs confidence:

rien de bien folichon

Explanation:
pour le plaisir d'en rajouter :

www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais-anglais/folichon/343...

pas folichon : not much fun ; un après-midi pas bien folichon : a pretty dull afternoon

- morne/triste comme un dimanche de Carême, comme un jour sans joie

- beaucoup trop prosaïque
Ce n'est pas cet imbécile qui m'aurait éclairée, il trouve bien tout ce que je fais, il est d'ailleurs bien trop pot-au-feu, trop prosaïque pour avoir le sens du beau (Balzac,Prince Bohême, 1840, p.376). C'est une excellente fille, mais elle est prosaïque comme une tranche de jambon (Avenel,Calicots, 1866, p.198). (cnrtl)

- Pour apple-pie, la discussion suivante est intéressante :
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_french/general_conversa...

Example sentence(s):

... tantôt ils sont tristes comme un dimanche de carême ! Qu'importe le temps, profitez du jour, carpe diem ...

Petitavoine
Local time: 13:38
Meets criteria
Native speaker of:

French

2 days9 hrs confidence:

ennuyeux comme la pluie

Explanation:
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Marinette Somerville
Local time: 12:38
Meets criteria
Native speaker of:

French

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Jan 29 - Changes made by cc in nyc:
Field (specific)	Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts) => Idioms / Maxims / Sayings

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