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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

ami du grain de thé

English translation:

friend from the meeting/get-together

Added to glossary by Angie Taylor
Jan 1, 2006 15:50
18 yrs ago
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French term

ami du grain de thé

French to English Marketing Cinema, Film, TV, Drama programme summary
Flanqué de Madi, un ami du grain de thé, Alex se met à la recherche de Ina

Is this an expression or something that should be translated more literally?

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Proposed translations (English)
3 +3 friend from the meeting/get-together

Discussion

Angie Taylor (asker) Jan 1, 2006:
There isn't that much context for the phrase, but I should have mentioned it's from Burkina Faso.

Proposed translations

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French term (edited): ami du grain de th�
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friend from the meeting/get-together

you haven't provided enough context (ie French from what country and other information about the actual (con)text) but I did find this which may fit in. I really prefer having more info since we're supposed to help, not just guess.

Le carnet de bord Nassaramitié 2002
Une réunion ("grain de thé") est déjà prévuue pour le week end prochain. Hélène s'est improvisée chauffeur de taxi pour ammener ses petits gars, Petit Pige, ...
nassaramitie.apinc.org/carnet.php?id_

Page personnelle Zakaria TOPAN-Accueil - [ Translate this page ]
Entre ami est la reproduction de l'ambiance qui règne dans un "grain de thé". Pour ceux qui n'ont pas pas encore eu l'occasion d'y participer c'est le ...
www.topanzak.africa-web.org/

Un jour un des organisateurs et facilitateur (AK) de l’atelier remarque un jeune homme à un grain de thé
http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:C94TliWmr3cJ:www.ilesdep...
Peer comment(s):
agree Robert Forstag : This indeed would seem to be it. It is an expression that I am not familiar with.
9 mins
|'m not (or at least wasn't ;-) ) familiar with it either-seems to be used in the French spoken in Africa. but am not even 100% sure about that. It's part of the fun doing Kudoz-one can learn a lot too.
agree French Foodie : good detective work!
15 hrs
agree Paige Stanton (X) : Interesting...bravo!
19 hrs
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