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To have more teeth

French translation: sont aussi parfois plus incisives...

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English term or phrase:To have more teeth
French translation:sont aussi parfois plus incisives...
Entered by: Alexandre Tissot

07:12 Jun 20, 2016
English to French translations [PRO]
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English term or phrase: To have more teeth
Bonjour,

Je traduis des notes de conférence plutôt urgentes.

Je me demande si dans le présent contexte l'expression "To have more teeth" n'a pas de sens de "s'enhardir", "sortir des sentiers battus", "sortir de son domaine de compétence" ou quelque chose comme cela bien qu'elle signifie "to have the power to enforce something, such as a rule, a law, regulation and so on."

Contexte : il est question du fonctionnement d'une entreprise.

"The ‘line’ organisation is predominant.
It drives all of the resources, most of the decision making, runs the profit and loss, and is the interface with our customers.
But ‘functions’ are also vital, in that they think a little more, longer term, in their functional domain, work mostly on sharing best practice between the line organisations, but also sometimes ***have a bit more teeth*** and talk about minimum standards."

Merci beaucoup, bonne journée et bonne semaine.
Alexandre Tissot
Local time: 23:41
sont aussi parfois plus incisives...
Explanation:
... et rappellent les normes minimales.
Selected response from:

Emérentienne
France
Local time: 23:41
Grading comment
Merci à toutes et à tous !
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +5sont aussi parfois plus incisives...
Emérentienne
3avoir plus de mordant
Solen Fillatre
3s'imposer un peu plus
Claude B
3montrent un peu les dents
Anne-Marie Laliberté (X)


  

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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
to have more teeth
avoir plus de mordant


Explanation:
Not sure what they are trying to say, with the "minimum standards" right after the expression, but the literal translation would be this. Could it be "have more ambition"?

Solen Fillatre
France
Local time: 23:41
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you, Solen. That is a good take!

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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
to have more teeth
s'imposer un peu plus


Explanation:
Je pense que l'on fait ici référence au caractère habituellement consultatif des fonctions et de la nécessité qu'elles essaient aussi d'imposer certaines choses

Claude B
France
Local time: 23:41
Native speaker of: French
Notes to answerer
Asker: Merci, Claude.

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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
to have more teeth
sont aussi parfois plus incisives...


Explanation:
... et rappellent les normes minimales.

Emérentienne
France
Local time: 23:41
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 14
Grading comment
Merci à toutes et à tous !
Notes to answerer
Asker: Merci, Emérentienne.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  FX Fraipont (X): excellent ;-)
2 hrs
agree  Solen Fillatre: nice!
4 hrs
agree  Annie Rigler
4 hrs
agree  Jean-Claude Gouin
23 hrs
agree  Premium✍️: :)
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
to have more teeth
montrent un peu les dents


Explanation:
...

Anne-Marie Laliberté (X)
Local time: 17:41
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 11
Notes to answerer
Asker: Merci, Anne-Marie.

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