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être le fer de lance - translation to English
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Fer-de-lance; Fer de lance; Fer de Lance; Fer-de-Lance (snake); Fer-de-Lance (disambiguation)
être le fer de lance
spearhead
Definition
fer de lance
[?f?: d?'l?:ns]
¦ noun (plural fers de lance pronunciation same or fer de lances) a large and dangerous pit viper native to Central and South America. [Bothrops atrox and related species.]
Origin
C19: from Fr., lit. 'iron (head) of a lance'.
Wikipedia
Fer-de-Lance
Fer-de-Lance is French for spearhead (literally "iron of the lance"), and may refer to:
Snakes of the genus Bothrops, especially:
- B. lanceolatus, the Martinique lancehead snake
- B. caribbaeus, the Saint Lucia lancehead
- B. atrox, the common lancehead, native to tropical South America east of the Andes and to Trinidad
- B. asper, the terciopelo or Central American lancehead, native to Central and northwestern South America
- B. insularis, the golden lancehead, a critically endangered Brazilian species
Other:
- Fer-de-Lance (novel), a 1934 Nero Wolfe series novel by Rex Stout
- Fer-de-Lance (comics), Teresa Vasquez, a Marvel comics super-villain
- Fer-de-Lance (film) a 1974 film starring David Janssen
Examples of use of être le fer de lance
1. Le Japon, reconnaissant humblement la faiblesse de sa capacité créative, a rasé un tiers de ces centres de recherche nationaux pour les reconstruire dans cette cité de cerveaux, destinés à être le fer de lance de la recherche fondamentale et de la haute technologie japonaise.