I'd say it was a bluebottle.
Une mouche bleue.
Oh, I can track a bluebottle fly right up your nose.
Je pourrais suivre une mouche jusqu'à votre nez.
If you want me to tell you what I know, you get that bluebottle and fetch me out of here.
Si vous voulez que je parle, trouvez le flic et sortez-moi de là.
From an institutional point of view, what we are now doing has no greater value, metaphorically speaking, than a bluebottle stopping off on a dung heap.
Au point de vue institutionnel, ce que nous faisons actuellement est, pour user d'une métaphore, tout aussi décisif que le passage d'une mouche sur un tas de fumier.
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