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 Translation for 'at every turn' from English to French
coller aux basques de qn. [loc.]to follow sb. at every turn [idiom]
Partial Matches
à la cadence d'environ un par trois moisat the rate of about one every three months
tourner la tête vers qn./qc.to turn to look at sb./sth.
débarquer chez qn. [fam.] [arriver]to turn up at sb.'s place [coll.]
chaque {adj}every
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à tous les coups {adv} [fam.]every time
tout le monde {pron}every man
journellement {adv} [tous les jours]every day
à chaque fois {adv}every time
tous les jours {adv}every day
(à) chaque fois {adv}every time
tous les matins {adv}every morning
quotidiennement {adv}every day
tous le mois {adv}every month
tous les soirs {adv}every evening
tous les ans {adv}every year
d'instant en instant {adv}every minute
à maintes reprises {adv}on every occasion
à tout bout de champ {adv} [fam.] [tout le temps]every little while
presque chaque semaine {adv}almost every week
toutes les cinq minutes {adv}every five minutes
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Usage Examples English
  • European nobility would have confronted Salic issues at every turn in the practice of diplomacy, particularly when they negotiated marriages, since the entire male line had to be extinguished for a land title to pass (by marriage) "to a female's husband".
  • Siskel described the film as "a spiritual documentary that shows racial joy, hatred and confusion at every turn", while Ebert lauded it for coming "closer to reflecting the current state of race relations in America than any other movie of our time."
  • What begins as a genuine attempt to get an interview with the so-called 'Iron Lady' quickly turns into a game of cat-and-mouse in the United States, with the filmmaker snubbed at every turn.
  • Claiming that the people had been cheated of their choice, Jacksonians attacked the Adams administration at every turn as illegitimate and tainted by aristocracy and corruption.
  • In the 2010 motion picture "Burke and Hare", Monro is bitter rivals with Robert Knox (Tom Wilkinson) whom he thwarts at every turn by having a statute passed ensuring all dead bodies be passed on to him for dissection.

  • Before the start of the new season, Ferguson received much criticism, particular in the guise of an article in "The Guardian" titled "Shredding his legacy at every turn".
  • Thursday juggles her work in Swindon and the world of fiction, battling the machinations of the insidious Goliath Corporation, members of the Hades family and other evils at every turn.
  • Beyond that, Hitler claimed that two "hate-inspired antagonists" (Britain and France) were blocking German foreign policy goals at every turn and that sometime in the next five years or so, Germany would have to achieve autarky by seizing Eastern Europe to prepare for a possible war with the British and the French.
  • In Chittenden's debut "The Boy Who Led Them" a child rises through the ranks to control the biggest smuggling gang on the Kent coast, fighting wars with rival gangs and revenue men at every turn.
  • Stegman into the secret society known as the 'Keepers', and the challenged-at-every-turn flirtation between young Dr.

  • Johnny is on a strict diet and attempts to avoid her, but she keeps following him at every turn.
  • Richard crosses them at every turn and makes several attempts to wrest control of Falcon Crest.
  • In October 1986, in a House of Commons debate, Brittan made a bitter attack on Michael Heseltine, accusing him of "thwarting the Government at every turn" in its handling of the Westland affair.
  • But Labor retained control of the Senate and was determined to frustrate Cook's government at every turn.
  • He plays practical jokes on his contemporaries, at every turn exposing vices.

  • The Umpqua people have developed a warrior culture similar to Native Americans of the Old West and are bitter enemies of the Holnists; they have defeated the Holnists at every turn but until the Postman's arrival, they were not inclined to help the "weak" townsfolk of the Willamette Valley against the Holnists.
  • "Publishers Weekly" praised the book, calling it "staggering feat of engineering ... [...]... offers new wonders at every turn".
  • Voltaire was also known to have been an advocate for coffee, drinking it at every turn: fifty times a day, according to Frederick the Great; three times a day, said Wagniere.
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