English-French translations for mare

• jument
  Comme le dit le proverbe indien, si vous vous rendez compte que votre monture est une jument vieillissante au lieu d’un mustang, il vaut mieux cesser tout de suite de la monter. As the American Indian saying goes, if you find out that your mount is an ageing mare instead of a mustang, then you should stop riding it immediately.
  Je vous encourage à cesser de monter cette jument vieillissante qu’est une économie sociale européenne inefficace, la France et l’Allemagne ouvrant la marche en termes d’inefficacité. I would urge you to stop riding an ageing mare in the shape of an inefficient European Union social economy, with France and Germany leading the way in inefficiency.
  C’est comme la mer Rouge qui s’écarte, Mahomet sur sa jument, Jésus qui revient à Pâques, le bio c’est ça, ça ne sert à rien, mais ça permet de supporter la vie. It is like the parting of the Red Sea, like Mahomet on his mare, or like Jesus returning at Easter. Organic farming is like that: it is of no earthly use, but it makes life bearable.

Definition of mare

• An adult female horse
• A foolish woman
• A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit
• A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea

Examples

• Im having a complete mare today.

Related words

• nightmare
• Hjälmaren
• Myanmarese
• mareograph
• mareel
• broodmare
• amaretto
• Himarë
• imaret