des paquebots trop lourds à manœuvrer
English translation: like tankers that are becoming too hard to turn around
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peer agreement (net): +2like tankers that are becoming too hard to turn around/becoming too set in their ways Explanation: or increasingly harder to turn around Tankers are often used figuratively - though often in the sense of the problems of stopping something already set on a course. If you want to get away from this maybe use something like "becoming too set in their ways"? -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 12 mins (2009-03-20 10:37:17 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- or increasingly hard -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 15 mins (2009-03-20 10:40:41 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "Risk turning into dinosaurs" is another non-nautical possibility if we're talking about resistance to change and lack of innovation. |
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