roublard

C'était un sacré roublard, cet homme.
He was a real sidewinder, that man.
Les réparations ont mal tourné, le maire Finn a disparu, et ce roublard de maire Peabody tente de mettre en œuvre ses propres plans.
Repairs gone wrong, Mayor Finn is missing, and the crafty Mayor Peabody is attempting to enact his own plans.
Quant à savoir combien les consommateurs sont disposés à payer pour avoir de l’allure, c’est une toute autre paire de manches, encore compliquée par l’admiration portée à qui sait se montrer furbo, autrement dit roublard.
What consumers are prepared to pay to look stylish is another matter, complicated by the notion of being furbo, or cunning, an attribute that is admired.
Roublard !
You always do this.
Tellement roublard que... il a fini par se retrouver... en prison.
So much so that... he ended up in trouble... in prison.
Ce roublard n'est pas un ami.
That welsher's no friend of mine.
Sacré roublard.
Ooh, you know it all, do you?
Pour terminer, je voudrais expliquer la raison de notre méfiance en vous rappelant les propos d’un roublard notoire de la scène politique espagnole : « Vous faites les lois, mais laissez-moi le soin de faire les règlements. »
I would like finally to explain our suspicion by recalling a Spanish politician renowned for his skill and ability in fiddling the rules, who said, ‘you make the law, but leave it to me to make the regulation’.
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