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NoirDesir
on Feb 27, 2017
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How a French scholar was treated at US airport
engueuler = bawl out
mercutio2
on Feb 27, 2017
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Several people have offered this translation. Just FYI, I don't think many US English speakers will have heard that phrase before.
A more idiomatic phrase in the US would be "she was chewed out".
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