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Anyone fluent in French?
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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! | Report | 31 Oct 2008 00:39 |
Can you tell us what it's from? Perhaps you can list the whole sentence so we can get the context. |
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MargaretM | Report | 31 Oct 2008 00:18 |
It certainly sounds like a rifleman or sniper who's on strike. (Doesn't make sense to me!) |
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mgnv | Report | 31 Oct 2008 00:08 |
A tireur is normally a sniper. Maybe he shot strikers - probably been out of work since the fall of the Thatcher government. |
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Janet 693215 | Report | 30 Oct 2008 23:37 |
I've found the following phrase which I think may be an occupation |