il releva le veston au niveau des epaulettes
English translation: he hunched up his shoulders
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| 4 +1 | he turned up his coat collar |
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| 4 +1 | he hunched up his shoulders |
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| 3 | he worked up his shoulders in his jacket |
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| 3 | lifted up his shoulders (and jacket) |
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peer agreement (net): +1he turned up his coat collar Explanation: This is one way - In this example the protagonist lifts his coat collar and turns it up to meet the cool (and wet, foggy) weather - a gesture or movement that equally could be transposed to the atmosphere of another sort where the physical movement might have another purpose - to obscure identification. Also seems to fit the 30's heritage Franco-American cross polination of this genre across the decades (e.g. film "Bob le Flambeur"). http://www.freefictionbooks.org/books/l/17037-a-lost-leader-... A Lost Leader by E. Phillips Oppenheim Borrowdean shivered a little as he turned up his coat collar They all came out into the drive to see him start. A curious change had come over the bright spring day. A grey sea-fog had drifted inland, the sunlight was obscured, the larks were silent. Borrowdean shivered a little as he turned up his coat-collar. "So Nature has her little caprices, even--in paradise!" he remarked. ..."It will blow over in an hour," Mannering said. "A breath of wind, and the whole thing is gone."... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_le_flambeur Bob, a middle-aged gambler and ex-con living in the Montmartre district of Paris, experiences a run of bad luck that leaves him nearly broke. Bob is a gentleman with scruples, well-liked in the demi-monde community. He has unsuccessfully tried to rob a bank in the past, and has spent time in prison. |
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