French-English translations for queue

• tail
  They are like a snake biting its own tail. C'est comme un serpent qui se mord la queue.
  The British or even the American tail is wagging the European dog. Le chien européen doit remuer la queue à l'anglaise ou même à l'américaine.
  We are and remain the tail of the German bulldog, but the Prime Minister's rhetoric makes it look as if it is the tail that is wagging the dog. Nous sommes et nous resterons la queue du bulldog allemand en dépit de la rhétorique du premier ministre, qui veut nous faire croire que c'est la queue qui fait bouger le chien.
• dick
  That person is such a dick
  Last weekend I did dick
  Dude, dont let them dick you around like that!
• cock
  All right, cock?
  In the darkness, the gun cocked loudly.
  He cocked his hat jauntily.
• prick
  I felt a sharp prick as the nurse took a sample of blood.
  John hardly felt the needle prick his arm when the adept nurse drew blood.
  to prick holes in paper
• queue
  The queues at security will be shorter, as more passengers can be scanned every hour. Les queues au poste de sécurité seront plus courtes puisqu'il est possible de scanner plus de passagers en une heure.
  It is fashionable at this time to pretend there is a long queue of countries wanting to join this place. C’est dans l’air du temps de prétendre qu’un grand nombre de pays font la queue pour rejoindre l’Union.
  Instead, there is a queue - look outside any advertising agency - of women seeking to engage in this profession. Et allez donc voir devant les agences publicitaires les queues de femmes qui souhaitent exercer cette profession.
• brush
  She gave her hair a quick brush
  He has had brushes with communism from time to time
  Brush your teeth.
• cue
  Cue the cameraman, and action!
• line
  Presumably, all this extra paperwork allows Luxembourgers, Latvians and Lithuanians to line up and run services from Long Eaton to Letchworth. Sans doute toute cette bureaucratie supplémentaire permet-elle aux Luxembourgeois, aux Lettons et aux Lituaniens de faire la queue et de proposer des services de Long Eaton à Letchworth.
  The arrow descended in a curved line
  a brake line
• queue, line
• rod
  The circus strong man proved his strength by bending an iron rod, and then straightening it.
  When I hooked a snake and not a fish, I got so scared I dropped my rod in the water.
  The judge imposed on the thief a sentence of fifteen strokes with the rod.
• stalk
  a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp
  My ex-girlfriend is stalking me
• stem
  the stem of an apple or a cherry
  to stem cherries; to stem tobacco leaves
  The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.

Related words

• queue-de-cheval
• queue-de-pie
• hochequeue
• rougequeue
• queue-de-rat
• fouette-queue
• tête-à-queue
• rouge-queue
• queue-de-renard