English-French translations for ping pong

  • ping-pong
    . - Madame la présidente, le jeu de ping-pong que vous avez joué avec la Commission et votre allusion au fait qu’elle devrait en faire plus, sont dignes d’intérêt. – Madam President, the game of ping pong you played with the Commission and your hint that it should do more is interesting. Monsieur Patten, nous n'aurons de cesse de l'exiger, même si vous pensez que le jeu de ping-pong devrait se terminer. Mr Patten, we will continue to push for this, even though you believe that we should at last put an end to the game of ping pong. Et vous avez - c'est le cas du groupe Arcelor - cette espèce de partie de ping-pong : je ferme ici, je rachète ailleurs, en Pologne en l'occurrence pour cette entreprise. So you see a sort of ping pong match going on: closing something here, buying something else here, in Poland in the case of that company.

Definition of ping pong

  • Table tennis
  • An instance of figuratively bouncing something or someone back and forth
  • The exchange of proposed amendments between the two houses of parliament, particularly at the end of a session when compromises have to be made to complete the legislative process within the limited time available
  • To figuratively bounce or be bounced back and forth
  • To play the game of ping pong

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