lifeline

bouée de sauvetage

Aide ou soutien dont une personne a absolument besoin dans une période difficile.

En anglais simple : Help or support that someone badly needs during a difficult time.

• This money is a lifeline.
• The bus service provides a lifeline for older residents.
• Her weekly calls became my lifeline during that difficult year.

Comment l'utiliser : a lifeline for someone/something (The loan was a lifeline for the small business.)

Synonymes : vital support, saving grace

Expressions courantes : provide a lifeline, lifeline for someone, lifeline to someone

corde de sauvetage

Corde qu’une personne tient ou à laquelle elle est attachée pour éviter de se noyer ou de tomber.

En anglais simple : A rope that someone holds or is attached to so they do not drown or fall.

• She grabbed the lifeline.
• The crew threw a lifeline to the swimmer.
• Each climber was attached to a lifeline.

Synonymes : safety line, rescue rope

Expressions courantes : throw a lifeline, grab a lifeline, hold a lifeline

voie de ravitaillement

Voie ou service qui apporte les provisions indispensables à la survie des personnes.

En anglais simple : A route or service that brings supplies people need to survive.

• The road is our lifeline.
• Floods cut the village's only lifeline to the outside world.
• Ships kept this island lifeline open throughout the winter.

Synonymes : supply route

Expressions courantes : vital lifeline, lifeline to somewhere, supply lifeline

ligne de vie

Ligne courbe de la paume près du pouce, que certains prétendent lire pour prédire la vie.

En anglais simple : A curved line on the palm near the thumb, used by people who claim to predict lives.

• Her lifeline curves around her thumb.
• The palm reader examined his lifeline.
• Do both hands have equally clear lifelines?

Synonymes : life line

Expressions courantes : long lifeline, read a lifeline, short lifeline