English-French translations for cranny

recoinIl n'y a rien de plus calculé pour que l'Europe soit mal aimée que sa détermination à contrôler tous les coins et recoins de nos existences. If anything was more calculated to make Europe unloved it is its determination to control every nook and cranny of our lives. Il n'y a pour ainsi dire plus le moindre recoin de notre vie nationale dans lequel Bruxelles n'ait pas encore pu enfoncer le bras, bloquant la lumière naturelle et étouffant la croissance spontanée. There is almost no nook or cranny of our national life so remote that Brussels has not curled its tendrils thither, choking out the natural light and blocking out the native growth.

A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance
A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc
To break into, or become full of, crannies
To haunt or enter by crannies
quick; giddy; thoughtless

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