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une araignée dans le plafond 310
une araignée dans le plafond [Fr], lit., a spider in the ceiling; a bee
in one's bonnet.
une bonne bête [Fr], a good-natured fool.
une femme grosse [Fr], a pregnant woman.
une fois n'est pas coutume [Fr], once is not a habit; one swallow does
not make a summer.
une grosse femme [Fr], a stout (or fat) woman.
une main savante [Fr], a skillful hand.
un freddo amico è mal sicuro amante [It], a cold friend makes an
uncertain lover.
Ungeduld [Ger], impatience; also, an impatient person.
Unglück [Ger], misfortune; ill luck.
unguibus et rostro [L], with claws and beak; tooth and nail.
unguis in ulcere [L], a claw in the wound (i.e., to keep it open); a
knife in the wound.
un homme averti en vaut deux [Fr], a man who is warned is equal to
two (unwarned); forewarned, forearmed.
un homme de bonne foi [Fr], an honest man.
un homme qui parle deux langues vaut deux hommes [Fr], a man
who speaks two languages is worth two men.
uni aequus virtuti, atque eius amicis [L], friendly to virtue alone and
to the friends of virtue: Horace.
unica virtus necessaria [L], virtue is the only thing necessary.
Unitas Fratrum [L], lit., unity of brethren; official name of Moravian
Church.
unius dementia dementes efficit multos [L], the madness of one drives
many mad.
Universität [Ger; pi Universitäten], university.
un je servirai [Fr], one I will serve.
Unkraut vergeht nicht [Ger], lit., weeds do not perish; ill weeds thrive.
un mal chiama l'altro [It], un mal llama a otro [Sp], one evil summons
another; misfortunes never come singly.
uno animo [L], with one mind; unanimously.
un' occhio alla padella, uno alla gatta [It], one eye on the frying pan,
one on the cat.
uno ictu [L], at one blow.
uno saltu [L], in one leap; at a single bound.
uno tiene la fama, y otro carda la lana [Sp], one gets the credit, and
another cards the wool; one does the work, someone else gets the
credit.
un poète manqué [Fr], a would-be poet.
un propos salé [Fr], a coarse remark.
unrecht Gut gedeiht nicht [Ger], ill-gotten gain never thrives.
unrein [Ger], dirty; out of tune: music.
un roy, une foy, une loi [OF], one king, one faith, one law.