Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
a tout rompre
English translation:
the young girl's heart was pounding
Jul 1, 2005 21:20
18 yrs ago
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French term
a tout rompre
French to English
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Le cœur de la jeune fille battait à tout rompre.
Proposed translations
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| 2 +8 | the young girl's heart was pounding |
Jonathan MacKerron
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| 4 +3 | was beating fit to burst |
sporran
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| 5 | The young girl's heart was beating so fast it nearly burst. |
Anna Maria Augustine (X)
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| 4 | out of her chest |
Nizo
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Change log
Jul 1, 2005 22:06: Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X) changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
Proposed translations
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10 mins
Jonathan MacKerron
Native in English
Retired as of Jan 2019!
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English
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the young girl's heart was pounding
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Note added at 11 mins (2005-07-01 21:31:35 GMT)
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felt her heart was about to burst
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Note added at 11 mins (2005-07-01 21:31:35 GMT)
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felt her heart was about to burst
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sarahl (X)
34 mins
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thx
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Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
: wildly
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exactly
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David Vaughn
: Jane's "wildly pounding" is not bad. Of course if this is "romantic" literature, it could be "pounding like wild horse hoofs unchaining her torid bosom"
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anything with torrid bosoms is fine in my book
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Anna Maria Augustine (X)
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thx
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Jean-Claude Gouin
6 hrs
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thx
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Louise Dupont (X)
6 hrs
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thx
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AbdulHameed Al Hadidi
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thx
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df49f (X)
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
11 mins
out of her chest
"The young girl's heart was beating out of her chest." Depending on the context, you could also say her heart was "beating like crazy" or "beating like mad."
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Josephine79
: sounds like Bat out of Hell!
10 hrs
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Nick Lingris
: In the right context, I'm all for "beating like crazy". In post-Alien days "beating out of her chest" has never been one of my favourites :-)
12 hrs
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lol...thanks, Nick!
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14 mins
was beating fit to burst
another possibility
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Nick Lingris
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thanks !
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Josephine79
: I like this one.
10 hrs
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thanks !
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mportal
: this is what it says in French (and the same expression is good in English).
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thanks !
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2 hrs
The young girl's heart was beating so fast it nearly burst.
Elle est amoureuse ou c'est une crise de tachicardie?
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