At least 'jellyfish' is pantomimable. I needed something to repair a broken bike mudguard, didn't know the French for duct tape/gaffer tape, and resorted to explaining to a bemused woman in a tourist office that I needed 'a sort of ribbon that you can stick...'. Turns out it's 'le gaffer'.
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Date: 2015-08-25 01:30 pm (UTC)