poltron

Tu as raté, ami poltron.
You missed something, my yellow-bellied friend.
Si tu n'es pas guéri ŕ mon retour, c'est que tu es un poltron.
If you're not up when I get back, you're a weakling!
C'est un vrai poltron.
He's a complete wimp.
J'ignore ce qu'en pensent les soldats, mais je préférerais un commandant en chef un tant soit peu poltron.
I don't know how the men on line feel about it... but so far as the staff is concerned, I'd just as soon have a commander-in-chief... with a little bit of cowardice about him.
Au ministère de l'Intérieur fut envoyé un député insignifiant, mais peut-être moins poltron que les autres, Karaoulov, qui promulga, le 1er mars, un décret d'arrestation de tous les fonctionnaires de la police publique ou secrète et du corps des gendarmes.
To the Ministry of the Interior they delegated the deputy Karaulov, insignificant but rather less cowardly than the others, and he issued on March 1 an order for the arrest of all police officials, public, secret and political.
Tu sais, "Polty", c'est le diminutif de "poltron".
You know, Polty's just another word for chicken.
C'est un vieux truc de poltron.
It's the oldest cop-out in the world.
Vous savez... "Polty", j'ai toujours cru que c'était le diminutif de "poltron".
You know Polty's just another way of saying chicken.
Je vous avertis, je suis un peu poltron.
I'm warning you, ben.
A se regarder dans le miroir, Milioukov, le bourgeois vit qu'il était insignifiant, cupide, poltron et, comme il arrive d'ordinaire, se fâcha contre son miroir.
Beholding himself in the Miliukov mirror, the bourgeois saw that he was grey, self-interested and cowardly; and, as so often happens, he took offence at the mirror.
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