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le pétrin

/pe.tʁɛ̃/ noun · masculine C2
  1. kneading trough
  2. a pickle, mess, scrape, the soup (colloquial, figuratively) · être dans le pétrin to be in a jam, to be in the soup

Plural pétrins

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