petits cachets

English translation: small payments

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French term or phrase:	petits cachets
English translation:	small payments
Entered by:	Karen Tucker (X)

10:44 Feb 21, 2001

French to English translations [PRO]
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French term or phrase: petits cachets

"Les etudes ne resistent plus tres longtemps a la course aux petits cachets ni aux charmes pourtant tres surfaits des hotels autoroutes." This concerns a young music group that had just left school to go on the road. Does this refer to postmarks from different cities? Thanks, Karen

Karen Tucker (X) KudoZ activity Questions: 393 (none open) (6 closed without grading) Answers: 288 United States
Local time: 14:10

small payment

Explanation:
Karen, I may be wrong but I don't think there's any connection with postmarks here. The reference is rather to the meagre earnings (cachets) which an aspiring pop group might hope to earn for a "gig" (do we still say that?!).

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Barnaby Capel-Dunn
Local time: 20:10

Grading comment

Thanks! That makes perfect sense. Karen
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Summary of answers provided

small payment

Barnaby Capel-Dunn

suite

Albert Golub

tickets

Dawn Cuccinello-Cruz (X)

loosely translated, after-the-fact and just for drill:

Heathcliff

Answers

18 mins

small payment

Barnaby Capel-Dunn
Local time: 20:10
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 42

Grading comment

Thanks! That makes perfect sense. Karen

24 mins

suite

Explanation:
courir le cachet=to chase after any sort of work/concert fees (adaptation)
don't know if petits must be translated because the expression itself suggests that you're not a star!
hope it helps

Albert Golub
Local time: 20:10
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in pair: 359

30 mins

tickets

Explanation:
Dear Karen,
According to Cassell's French Dictionary, cashets could be translated like, "Seal, stamp, signet, signetring; ticket; tablet (of aspirin); fee (of an artist). Sinse this is about a musical group, and considering the context of the sentence, you could just translate the sentence like this: "For a very long time, the students no longer resist buying tickets, nor charms no matter how overrated for autoroute hotels." This would be standard English. The petit could be left out.

Cassell's French Dictionary

Dawn Cuccinello-Cruz (X)
PRO pts in pair: 5

4 days

loosely translated, after-the-fact and just for drill:

Explanation:
"Their schoolwork couldn't hold out much longer against the lure of concert fees, however small, and the charms of highway motels, however overrated."

Cheers,
HC

Heathcliff
United States
Local time: 11:10
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 953

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