Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
pins and needles
French translation:
avoir des fourmis / picotements / fourmillements
Added to glossary by
Tony M
Dec 24, 2014 09:16
9 yrs ago
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English term
Italy
I translate as I breathe
Native in: English (Variants: British, Irish, UK, US) 
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Works in: English to Italian, Italian to English, French to Italian, and 3 more.
Pins and needles
Non-PRO
English to French
Other
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
everyday colloquial expression
Merry Christmas everyone! This commonplace if infuriating condition completely stumped me when I was trying to interpret - not professionally - between a British doctor with no French and a young French couple with no English. Surely there is an equally commonplace French expression for it?
Proposed translations
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| 4 +5 | avoir des fourmis |
Tony M
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| 4 +3 | picotements / fourmillements |
B D Finch
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| 4 +2 | avoir des fourmis |
acetran
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References
| dictionary |
writeaway
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Change log
Dec 24, 2014 10:37: writeaway changed "Language pair" from "French to English" to "English to French" , "Field" from "Medical" to "Other" , "Field (write-in)" from "conditions" to "expression"
Dec 24, 2014 10:41: writeaway changed "Field (write-in)" from "expression" to "everyday colloquial expression"
Jan 7, 2015 06:44: Tony M Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
+5
3 mins
English term (edited):
to have pins and needles
Selected
avoir des fourmis
That's the everyday expression I've always heard over here.
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Note added at 13 jours (2015-01-07 06:45:16 GMT) Post-grading
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This informal, colloquial expression corresponds closely in register to the original, and would be appropriate for use when talking to patients on a lay-person's level.
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Note added at 19 jours (2015-01-12 19:59:26 GMT) Post-grading
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paresthésie is the technical medical word for it (as paræsthesia in EN) — but that clearly wouldn't match here in register or context.
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Note added at 13 jours (2015-01-07 06:45:16 GMT) Post-grading
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This informal, colloquial expression corresponds closely in register to the original, and would be appropriate for use when talking to patients on a lay-person's level.
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Note added at 19 jours (2015-01-12 19:59:26 GMT) Post-grading
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paresthésie is the technical medical word for it (as paræsthesia in EN) — but that clearly wouldn't match here in register or context.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
+3
3 mins
picotements / fourmillements
J'ai entendu toutes les deux expressions.
Peer comment(s):
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mchd
: dans un contexte médical, c'est nettement mieux !
3 hrs
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Merci. Oui, je trouve "avoir des fourmis" un peu informel.
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Jean-Claude Gouin
: Moi aussi, j'ai entendu les deux expressions ...
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Merci
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Verginia Ophof
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Merci Verginia
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+2
4 mins
avoir des fourmis
http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/pins and needles
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-french/p...
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-french/p...
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Jean-Claude Gouin
3 hrs
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| agree |
Yvonne Gallagher
: probably first if you hadn't looked for refs
2 days 8 hrs
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Reference comments
2 hrs
Reference:
dictionary
pins and needles
noun [plural] uk us
› If you have pins and needles in a part of your body, you feel slight sharp pains in it, usually just after you have moved from being in one position for a long time.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/pins-and-...
noun [plural] uk us
› If you have pins and needles in a part of your body, you feel slight sharp pains in it, usually just after you have moved from being in one position for a long time.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/pins-and-...
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