Vocabulary
mettre
to put; to place; to put on; to set; to start (something / doing something); to get around to it; to penetrate
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mettre en jeu
to gamble; to offer as a prize; to bring into play; to put at stake, to risk, to involve
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mettre le feu
to set fire to, to set on fire, to set alight, to torch, to ignite; to set on fire, to set alight
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mettre la main
to get one's hands on, to lay hands on, to get hold of, to come by, to dig out, to ferret out, to unearth
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mettre les gaz
to hit the gas, to step on the gas, to step on it, to floor it, to put one's foot down
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mettre à terre
to put down, to beat down, to beat to the ground, to quell, to stomp out, (to defeat)
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mettre la pâtée
to wipe the floor with, to thrash (to defeat severely, to inflict a heavy defeat upon)
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mettre en doute
to question, to call into question, to cast doubt upon, to doubt, to challenge, to second guess
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mettre d'accord
to reconcile; to get someone to agree (with someone else); to settle on, to agree
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mettre au point
to develop, to work out, to set up, to establish, to set on foot; to focus (a camera)
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mettre à niveau
to bring up to standard (a skill, subject, one's knowledge, an unemployed person, etc.); to upgrade, to update; to bring up to standard, to retrofit (equipment, infrastructure, software, etc.); to bring oneself up to speed on, to bring oneself up to date on, to improve one's knowledge of
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