Französisch: flagonnageEnglisch translation: boot-licking, sucking up to 
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Slang / FINANCIAL STATEMENTS | | Französisch Begriff oder Satz: flagonnage | Organiser de la publicité dans les médias locaux (TV, journal) sur les activités passées à l’unité, faire du flagonnage auprès des journalistes, afin de démontrer la fierté des jeunes, leur sentiment d’appartenance.
Quebec French |
| | | flagoRnage | Erklärung:
sucking up to, licking boots and sundry appendages, creeping, crawling ...
Hardly think this is the intended tone, however.
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Note added at 21 mins (2006-11-09 00:12:40 GMT)
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Maybe something like "appeal to journalists' social conscience ..."
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Note added at 42 mins (2006-11-09 00:33:03 GMT)
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Larousse Lexis gives two classes of synonyms for "flagorneur": flatteur, and lèche-bottes, lécheur (fam.)
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Note added at 44 mins (2006-11-09 00:35:13 GMT)
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That or it is Quebec franglais for "buy someone's favours by plying them with half-gallon bottles of spirits". |
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| flagoRnage
Erklärung:
sucking up to, licking boots and sundry appendages, creeping, crawling ...
Hardly think this is the intended tone, however.
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Note added at 21 mins (2006-11-09 00:12:40 GMT)
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Maybe something like "appeal to journalists' social conscience ..."
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Note added at 42 mins (2006-11-09 00:33:03 GMT)
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Larousse Lexis gives two classes of synonyms for "flagorneur": flatteur, and lèche-bottes, lécheur (fam.)
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Note added at 44 mins (2006-11-09 00:35:13 GMT)
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That or it is Quebec franglais for "buy someone's favours by plying them with half-gallon bottles of spirits".
| Bourth
Frankreich
Muttersprache: Englisch
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| Hinweis von Fragesteller an den Antwortenden| Thanks! The misspelling threw me off. |
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