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faire un caca nerveux: to have a shit fit, to throw a tantrum, to get one's knickers in a twist, to get one's panties in a bunch (over something trivial)
faire un carton: to be a hit, to be a huge success
faire un dessin: to spell it out
faire un enfant dans le dos: to trick someone into making one pregnant, to get pregnant without one's partner knowledge or consent; to do something behind someone's back
faire un flop: to flop, to bomb, to tank
faire un four: to flop, to bomb, to tank
faire un malheur: to be all the rage, to be a huge success, to be a hit
faire un saut: to make a stop, to stop off, to pop over
faire un sort: to make short work of, to eat voraciously
faire un tabac: to be a hit
faire un tour: to take a walk, to take a stroll, to go for a walk
faire une belle jambe: to do a fat lot of good
faire une carte de France: to make a map of France; to have a wet dream
faire une croix: to forsake, to kiss goodbye to (to give up reluctantly)
faire une fleur: to do (someone) a kindness, to do (someone) a good turn, to cut (someone) a break, to cut someone some slack
faire une joke: to make a joke
faire une machine: to do a load of laundry, to put a load on, to put a wash on
faire une montagne d'une taupinière: to make a mountain out of a molehill, to sweat the small stuff
faire une scène: to make a scene, to cause a scene, to raise a fuss; to blow up at, to lay into
faire usage: to make use of, to use; to exercise
faire valoir: to assert, affirm
faire violence: to force someone, to use violence on someone; to force oneself (to do something)
faire voile: to set sail, to sail
faire vœu: to take a vow
faire échec: to thwart, to foil, to stymie, to cause to fail, to make fail
faire écho: to echo
faire école: to found a school of thought, to attract a following, to find followers, to be seminal, to set a precedent, to set an example
faire époque: to make history, to go down in history (to become a historical milestone)
faire équipe: to work as a team, to team up, to pair up, to partner up
faire étalage: to make a display (of), to flaunt
faire étape: to make a stopover, to stop off (somewhere)
faire état: to cite, to mention, to give an account of; to give (something) some thought, to consider
faire œuvre utile: to make a real contribution, to do something useful, to do useful work
faire-part: announcement (of birth, marriage, death, etc.)
faire-valoir: a sidekick, a foil, a stooge
fais ce que je dis, pas ce que je fais: do as I say and not as I do
fais de beaux rêves: sweet dreams
faisabilité: feasibility, doability
faisable: feasible; doable (able to be done)
faisan: pheasant (a bird of family Phasianidae); cock pheasant (male pheasant)
faisandé: gamy, high (of meat); corrupt, decadent
faisceau: fasces; beam, ray; bundle, sheaf, cluster
faiseur: maker; tailor
faiseur d'anges: angel maker, jack-knife barber (non-physician who carries out illicit abortions)
faiseur d'opinion: opinionmaker
faisoit: archaic spelling of faisait, third-person singular imperfect indicative of faire
faisselle: cheese strainer; curd cheese
fait: fact
fait: done; cut out; mature or ripe; drunk
fait accompli: fait accompli; done deal
fait d'armes: prowess, feat of arms
fait de langue: linguistic feature characteristic of a given language (and worthy of some in-depth analysis)
fait de société: social reality, social phenomenon
fait divers: miscellaneous news story, minor news item
fait maison: homemade (made at home; self-made)
fait que: So, therefore, in that case
fait-main: handmade (made by hand)
fait-tout: stewpot (large cooking pot with handles and a lid)
faites ce que je dis, pas ce que je fais: do as I say and not as I do
faites de beaux rêves: sweet dreams