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se porter comme un charme: to be fine, to feel great
se porter garant: to vouch (for), to guarantee (the integrity or truth of something)
se pousser: to move aside
se pouvoir: to be possible; may, could be
se prendre: to get, to receive (something negative)
se prendre au jeu: to get caught up in the game, to take a liking to the game, to get into it, to play along, to get into the swing of things (to start liking to do something)
se prendre de bec: to cross swords
se prendre de passion: to develop a passion, to be seized by a passion
se prendre les pieds dans le tapis: to misstep, to trip up, to get into a muddle
se prendre pour le nombril du monde: to think the world revolves around one, to think one is the centre of the universe
se presser le citron: to rack one's brain, to cudgel one's brain
se péter la gueule: to get drunk, wasted (on drugs); to fall over
se raccrocher aux branches: to try to save face, to try to dig oneself out of the hole one has made; to grasp at straws
se ranger des bécanes: synonym of se ranger des voitures
se ranger des voitures: to clean up one's act, to settle down, to reform, to be finished with the excesses, to get back on the straight and narrow, to straighten up and fly right, to get older and wiser
se rattraper aux branches: to try to save face, to try to dig oneself out of the hole one has made; to grasp at straws
se recroqueviller: to curl up (into a ball); to snuggle; to crouch or huddle
se regarder dans le blanc des yeux: to look each other straight in the eye, to stare each other down, to glare at one another
se regarder en chiens de faïence: to look daggers at each another, to glare at one another
se regarder le nombril: to contemplate one's navel, to indulge in navel-gazing (to be self-centered)
se relaxer: to relax
se remettre dans le bain: to get back into the swing of things
se remplir les poches: to line one's pockets (to accumulate personal wealth, especially in an illegal or morally objectionable manner)
se rendre à l'évidence: to face the facts, to face reality, to be realistic, to bow to the evidence
se reposer sur ses lauriers: to rest on one's laurels
se retourner dans sa tombe: to turn in one's grave
se rincer l'œil: to get an eyeful
se ronger les sangs: to tie oneself in knots, to worry oneself sick
se rôtir la couenne: to sunbathe (so as to catch a tan)
se salir les mains: to get one's hands dirty (to be personally involved in nefarious acts rather than using an intermediary)
se sentir pousser des ailes: to feel exhilarated; to feel like one is on top of the world; to feel ten feet tall
se serrer la ceinture: to tighten one's belt, to stay frugal, to scrimp
se serrer les coudes: to back one another up, to stick together, to help one another
se sortir les doigts du cul: to get a move on, to get off one's ass, to pull one's finger out (to stop being lazy)
se soucier comme d'une guigne de: to not give a damn about (something)
se soucier comme de l'an quarante de: synonym of se moquer comme de l'an quarante de
se soucier comme des neiges d'antan de: couldn't care less about (to be perfectly indifferent about a thing)
se soucier comme un poisson d'une pomme de: to not give a damn about (something)
se souvenir: remember (to recall one's memory)
se sustenter: Pronominal version of sustenter: to eat, to take sustenance
se taper des barres: to laugh one's head off
se taper des délires: to have a blast, to have fun
se taper la cloche: to eat very well; to fill one's face
se taper la honte: to look like an idiot, to look like a pillock, to make a fool of oneself, to be a laughing stock, to get ridiculed in front of everybody
se taper un rassis: to jerk off, to masturbate
se tenir à carreau: to lie low, to watch one's step, to behave oneself, to straighten up, to walk the line
se tirer: bail out; shooting oneself
se tirer la bourre: to vie for first place, to compete fiercely
se tirer sur l'élastique: to jerk off, masturbate; to do nothing, laze around
se tirer une balle: to shoot oneself, to blow one's brains out
se tirer une balle dans le pied: to shoot oneself in the foot
se tordre de douleur: to writhe in pain
se tordre de rire: to be in stitches, to be convulsed with laughter, to be doubled up with laughter, to be rolling on the floor laughing
se tordre les côtes: to be in stitches
se toucher la nouille: to masturbate
se tourner les pouces: to twiddle one's thumbs
se voiler la face: to look the other way, to bury one's head in the sand, to lie to oneself
se voir comme le nez au milieu de la figure: to be plain as the nose on one's face, obvious, conspicuous, visible, clear as day
seaborgium: seaborgium
seau: pail, bucket