Mot du jour: Fil (Thread)

Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary © 2005 Oxford University Press:

fil /fil/
I.masculine noun
1.thread;
→ See Also→ coudre;
2.yarn;
3.string;
~ de fer wire;
4.wire;
(on appliance) flex GB, cord US;
(on phone) lead;
coup de ~ (familiar) (phone) call;
au bout du ~ (familiar) on the phone;
5.(of conversation, text) thread;
perdre le ~ des événements to lose track of events;
6.(of razor) edge.
II.au fil de phrase in the course of;
au ~ des ans over the years;
aller au ~ de l'eau to go with the flow.

COMPOUNDS:
~ conducteur (of heat) conductor;
(of novel) thread;
(of inquiry) lead;
~ directeur guiding principle.

IDIOMS:
ne tenir qu'à un ~ to hang by a thread.