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“mettre au placard” in English
5 examplesNous ne pouvons nous contenter de les mettre au placard.
They cannot just be brushed under the carpet.
Nous devrions examiner sérieusement ce point, et ne pas le mettre au placard.
We should give serious consideration to this and not brush it under the carpet.
Une fois de plus, nos dirigeants européens, bien au chaud dans leur tour d'ivoire, vont devoir réviser leur copie ou la mettre au placard.
From the comfort of their ivory tower, our European leaders are, once again, going to have to try and come up with something better, or else shelve their proposal.
Surtout en temps de crise, il est important, à mon avis, d'évaluer les plans avec plus de minutie et, si nécessaire, de les mettre au placard.
Particularly in times of crisis, it is important, in my opinion, to evaluate plans more carefully and, if necessary, to shelve them.
Il faut un approfondissement économique et politique de l'Union grâce à un dessein politique fort, sans lequel la cohésion économique et sociale si souvent évoquée deviendra seulement un triste mirage et l'Europe un rêve à mettre au placard.
The Union must be deepened economically and politically on the basis of a strong political blueprint, otherwise that much-vaunted economic and social cohesion will become nothing but a sad, pathetic mirage and Europe, perhaps, a dream to be postponed yet again.
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