English-French translation for "cudgel"

cudgel {noun} (also: hard-on, boner)

cudgel {noun}

to cudgel [cudgeled; cudgelled|cudgeled; cudgelled] {v.t.}

Others have taken up our cudgels.

Mr. Speaker, if no one else will pick up the cudgel then certainly I will.

Here I will take up the cudgels for the Structural Funds and for maintaining these policies as far as possible.

In fact, if it appears that petitioners are being unfairly treated or fobbed off we take up the cudgels on their behalf.

Mr Arafat has decided that he wants to take up the cudgels and combat what he sees as some difficult situations in East Jerusalem.

Our Ombudsman acts fearlessly, like Jaakko Ilkka in the Finnish Cudgel War, against the tyranny of the administrative nobility.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, after all this criticism I am going to take up the cudgels on behalf of the Schengen Agreements.

The aim of this report is to take up the cudgels for a better information and communication strategy for the European Union.

We must also ensure that Motion No. 455 is not used as a cudgel to slam on the head of the executive world when it is not negligent and not responsible.

As the situation developed, a small group of individuals armed with stones and cudgels attacked members of the work team, smashing their vehicles and worksite.

I particularly admired his taking up the cudgel on behalf of the veterans, a subject which Jack Marshall so reluctantly had to put aside.

That is why I should like on this occasion to take up the cudgels for the Multilateral Agreement on Investment.

I will, of course, take up the cudgels against neoliberal policies, and I will also fight against all that tends to turn the European Union into a military power.

Mr Barroso, much as I, of course, appreciate your willingness to take up the cudgels in the European cause, it really is stating the obvious to say that this House is largely pro-European.