Ça c\'est la tenaille coréenne
English translation: That's the Korean torture
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That's the Korean torture Explanation: Tenaille = pincers, tenailler is to torture using red-hot pincers. This is just a literal translation, there are expressions in English which might do as an equivalent such as "death by a thousand cuts", or maybe simply "It's agony!" |
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