Translation for 'to blow a fuse' from English to French

to blow a fuse [coll.]

piquer une crise [fam.]

to blow a fuse [coll.] [idiom] [become enraged]

sauter au plafond [loc.]

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to have a short fuse [idiom] [to be quick-tempered]

être soupe au lait [loc.]

to blow a bulb

griller une lampe

to blow a trumpet

souffler dans une trompettemus.

to blow a whistle

siffler

blow with a club

coup {m} de massuearmes

to blow out a candle

souffler (sur) une bougie

blow with a stick

coup {m} de bâton

to blow a gasket [coll.]

piquer une crise [fam.]

to strike sb./sth. a blow

asséner un coup à qn./qc. [aussi : assener]

to blow air into a tube

souffler de l'air dans un tube

to blow a leaf from a tree

détacher une feuille d'un arbre [vent]bot.

to strike a blow for freedom [idiom]

marquer un point pour la liberté [loc.]

to give sb. a blow job [vulg.]

tailler une pipe à qn. [vulg.]

to blow sth. up into a major issue

gonfler qc. [incident] [fam.] [exagérer]

to give sb./sth. a blow with an axe

donner un coup de hache à qn./qc.

fuse

fusée {f} [détonateur]tech.

mèche {f} [pyrotechnie]

fusible {f}électr.

plomb {m} [fam.] [fusible]électr.

fuse box

boîte {f} à fusiblesélectr.

• If the circuit is double cut with positive and negative wires, any wet conductive earth is likely to blow a fuse on the one hand, and short the detecting relay on the other hand, either of which is almost certain to apply the correct warning signal.
• It is also able to tolerate short-circuit conditions up to 17 times larger than an electronic UPS, permitting one device to blow a fuse and fail while other devices still continue to be powered from the rotary UPS.
• Until the 1950s, isolated ground domestic mains supplies tended to have no Residual-Current Device (RCD) or Earth Leakage Circuit Breaker (ELCB), and too high a ground impedance to blow a fuse if a live-to-earth fault occurred.