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Sunday, February 7, 2010

les frissons dans le dos

(n.m.pl.) shivers down the spine
(literally, chills in the back)

Pour ceux qui ont sauvé des autres, ils avaient les frissons dans le dos.
For those who saved others, they had shivers down the spine.

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