Alternative form of accident de travail

Alternative form of défaillance de marché

(informal) no less! if you please! would you believe!

(climbing) to give someone more slack / (transitive with à) (informal, figuratively) to cut someone some slack, to give someone some rope, to give someone more leeway

travellers, gypsies

the best of the bunch, the pick of the litter, the cream of the crop, the upper crust, the top of the barrel

gap between one's upper front teeth, diastema

trial by fire, acid test

(figuratively) to take a step back, to step back and get some perspective

far from it, quite the contrary, on the contrary