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 Translation for 'on the sly' from English to French
SYNO furtively | on the sly
en cachette {adv}on the sly
sournoisement {adv}on the sly
à porte close {adv}on the sly
en douce {adv} [fam.]on the sly
à la sauvette {adv} [à la dérobée]on the sly
4 Words
faire qc. ni vu, ni connu [fam.]to do sth. on the sly [coll.]
Partial Matches
sur le / la / leson the
de travers {adj} {adv}on the skew
en cavale {adv} [fam.]on the run
sur le déclin {adv}on the wane
mus.
au piano : ...
on the piano: ...
à la volée {adv}on the fly
en bouche {adv}on the palate
dare-dare {adv} [fam.]on the double
bien au contraire {adv}on the contrary
en maraude {adj} [voyou]on the prowl
sur la gauche {adv}on the left
à pied d'œuvre {adv}on the spot
sur place {adv}on the premises
à pied d'œuvre {adv}on the premises
en aparté {adv}on the quiet
a contrario {adv}on the contrary
en surface {adv} [à l'extérieur]on the surface
au contraire {adv}on the contrary
géogr.
en bordure de mer {adv}
on the coast
à chaud {adv} [commenter, analyser, résoudre]on the spot
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Usage Examples English
  • Shobha and Arjun meet by a chance encounter and realise Atul and Pinky's plan and try to make them jealous by meeting with each other on the sly.
  • She also collaborated with Britney Spears on the Sly and Robbie remix of "Piece of Me".
  • Nove is the subject of Half Man Half Biscuit's "Nove on the Sly", a track from their 2000 album "Trouble over Bridgwater".
  • While "Farmer Weathersky" and "The Thief and His Master" include the transformation chase of a pupil from his master, in those tales, the boy is actually a pupil, and not learning on the sly as in this one.
  • Fester and Ailin's songs featured in the series included "Tropical Diseases", "The Monkey Song" and "Doing the Wife's Sisters on the Sly" as well as the classic yuletide number "There's a Dead Man Up The Chimney".

  • Hobbs is mentioned in the Half Man Half Biscuit song "Nove on the Sly" from the album "Trouble Over Bridgwater".
  • The next project Cammell managed to get made was a short called "The Argument" (1971/99) that was shot on location in the Utah desert by Vilmos Zsigmond on the sly.
  • Allen appeared in the documentary "On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone" which was released in January 2017.
  • In November 1994, "The Washington Post" came out with an announcement that Sweden could have kept its nuclear weapons option open on the sly.
  • It is then that Schmaltz reveals a Babbitt-esque flirtation with an artist of his acquaintance, the thirty-eight-year-old Erica, whom he meets on the sly when he's in New York.

  • The duo live off the property selling the produce on the sly because Biju is too innocent to notice anything.
  • Adams, the post commander at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, banned its wear, even though it was worn on the sly when units were in the field or deployed overseas.
  • It is then Divya concludes that Hari may not be a good influence over her daughter after she finds out that he has not only fallen in love, but also visiting on the sly, as well as exchanging love letters with a woman named Ganga.
  • Written in Venetian, the comedy is intensified by the presence of a hapless young Venetian official, who is helpless to enforce order on the sly inhabitants he is supposed to keep under control.
  • Variations that evolved in the black community include "five on the black hand side" (giving skin on the darker outer hand side) and "five on the sly" (a low five behind the back).

  • So Keerthi started learning about guitar chords from Bandula, on the sly.
  • Dorcas Rae is a gene technician and mistress to the lab supervisor. On the sly, she created the mantises that have become so popular with people on the dole.
  • He lent his talents to the Sly Stone CD "I'm Back! Family & Friends", on which he plays on the Sly classic "Stand!" It was released on August 16, 2011.
  • "Infamous" came during the end of the development for "Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves" as the team began to look towards their next game.
  • success enabled the studio to pursue a sequel. Fleming said that the sequel was about Sly and his companions collaborating with each other to "pull off strings of big heists", while Fox said that it was inspired by Hollywood heist films.

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