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By then : d'ici là.

Is that a colloquialism?

Looking for advice as to whether this works for - What do you expect me to do?:

Qu'attendez-vous que je fasse?

I can see from the discussion that I am not the only learner who gets confused about this, but am I correct that these two sentences are translated thus:

Jack descended the giant = Jack a descendu le geant (Sorry, can't do the accent)

and

Jack descended on the giant = Jack est descendu sur le geant.