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phrase [fʀαz]feminine noun• petite phrase ( = remarque) soundbite* * *fʀɑz1) Linguistique ( assemblage de mots) sentence2) ( propos) phrasefaire des phrases or de grandes phrases — to use flowery language
3) Musique phrase•Phrasal Verbs:* * *fʀɒz1. nf1) LINGUISTIQUE sentence2) (= propos) phrase3) MUSIQUE phrase2. phrases nfpl* * *phrase nf1 Ling ( assemblage de mots) sentence;2 ( propos) phrase; une phrase célèbre/ampoulée a well-known/highflown phrase; une phrase qui veut tout dire a revealing phrase; il eut cette phrase admirable he came out with this wonderful phrase; avoir une phrase malheureuse to say the wrong thing; faire des phrases or de grandes phrases to use flowery words; sans phrases without mincing one's words; pas de phrases no fine phrases; tour de phrase turn of phrase; ⇒ petit;3 Mus phrase.phrase toute faite stock phrase, set expression.[fraz] nom féminin[en grammaire transformationnelle] phrase2. [énoncé]phrase célèbre famous saying ou remarkfaire de grandes phrases ou des phrases to talk in flowery language————————sans phrases locution adverbiale -
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phrase [fʀαz]feminine noun• petite phrase ( = remarque) soundbite* * *fʀɑz1) Linguistique ( assemblage de mots) sentence2) ( propos) phrasefaire des phrases or de grandes phrases — to use flowery language
3) Musique phrase•Phrasal Verbs:* * *fʀɒz1. nf1) LINGUISTIQUE sentence2) (= propos) phrase3) MUSIQUE phrase2. phrases nfpl* * *phrase nf1 Ling ( assemblage de mots) sentence;2 ( propos) phrase; une phrase célèbre/ampoulée a well-known/highflown phrase; une phrase qui veut tout dire a revealing phrase; il eut cette phrase admirable he came out with this wonderful phrase; avoir une phrase malheureuse to say the wrong thing; faire des phrases or de grandes phrases to use flowery words; sans phrases without mincing one's words; pas de phrases no fine phrases; tour de phrase turn of phrase; ⇒ petit;3 Mus phrase.phrase toute faite stock phrase, set expression.[fraze] nom masculin -
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4 Auguste
Proper name. Tout juste, Auguste! (Rhyming catch-phrase): Right-on! You've said it mate! -
5 bataillon
n. m. Inconnu au bataillon: This expression meaning 'never heard of him (her) before' is very much a catch-phrase. -
6 blague
n. f.1. Joke. Faire une blague à quelqu'un: To play a practical joke on someone. Sans blague?! No kidding?! (This was the catch-phrase of Grock, a famous Swiss clown.) Blague à part: Honestly! Joking apart (also: blague dans lecoin!). Sale blague: 'Sick joke'.2. 'Tall story', lie. N'écoute donc pas toutes ces blagues! Don't listen to all that tommy-rot!3. Blunder. J'ai l'impression que j'ai fait une blague: I think I've made a boob.4. (pl.) Blagues a tabac: 'Droopy tits', flabby mammaries. -
7 bouche
n. f.1. Bouche cousue! (also: motus et bouche cousue!): Mum's the word! — Keep it to yourself! — It's a secret!2. Ta bouche bébé, t'auras une frite! Shut your face! — Shut up! (This nonsensical catch phrase is more often heard in its abbreviated form ta bouche bébé!) -
8 corbeau
n. m.1. Pejorative appellation for a priest (because of the black cassock).2. Poison-pen writer. (The typical corbeau letter seems to end with the words: un ami qui vous veut du bien. This expression in turn seems to have become a sardonic catch-phrase.) -
9 enfant
n. m.1. Faire l'enfant: To 'act dumb', to pretend to be stupid.2. Il n'y a plus d'enfants! (catch phrase): They know it all nowadays! — There's no innocence left in today's society.3. Enfant de chœur: Incredibly nai've person.4. Un enfant de la balle (th.): Second-generation artiste, person who, as the saying goes, was 'born in a trunk'.5. L'enfant se présente mal (fig.): Things aren't looking too good—Prospects are bleak. -
10 Etienne
Proper name. A la tienne, Etienne! Mud in your eye! — Here's looking at you! — Bottoms up! (This rhyming catch-phrase is often used when toasting someone with a drink.) -
11 main
n. f.1. Avoir la main heureuse: To 'have a knack with things', to be lucky by nature.2. Avoir la main baladeuse: To 'have wandering hands', to have a tendency to 'paw'.3. Avoir un poil dans la main: To be an 'idle git', to be a lazy so-and-so.4. Etre en main (of prostitute): To be with a client.5. Se faire la main: To 'try one's hand at something', to practise.6. Ça fait ma main! It suits me to a T! — That's fine by me!a To make a swoop for, to 'pinch', to steal.b To give a woman a sly stroke on the behind.8. Se prendre en main (joc.): To 'pull one's wire', to masturbate.9. Se prendre par la main: To pluck up courage, to act in a confident manner.10. Ne pas y aller de main morte: To 'make no bones about something', to be ruthlessly frank and aggressive.11. Passer la main dans le dos à quelqu'un: To 'butter up', to flatter someone. Il aime bien se passer la main dans le dos: He likes to pat himself on the back.12. Avoir un enfant de la main gauche: To have an illegitimate child.13. Ne pas se moucher de la main gauche (iron.): To 'fancy oneself', to have no mean opinion of oneself.14. C'est du cousu main: It's done to a turn—It's perfectly done.15. Passer la main:a To 'give in', to let someone else handle things.b To 'let things ride', to be amenable.16. La main de ma sœur dans la culotte d'un zouave: This jocular catch phrase has no specific meaning, but implies that whatever has been said or done is highly ridiculous. -
12 mettre
I.v. trans.2. To 'lay', to fuck, to have coition with. (This rather pejorative acceptation of the verb becomes even more so in the passive where it seems to refer exclusively to anal intercourse, The expression se faire mettre is more often than not found with a figurative meaning: to get conned, to be had.)3. Mettre quelqu'un dedans: To 'pull a fast one' on someone, to con someone.4. To inflict something very painful on someone (lit. & fig.): Qu'est-ce qu'il lui m a mis! She didn't half cop it!6. Y mettre du sien:a To 'put one's shoulder to the wheel', to put some personal effort into something.b To 'meet someone halfway', to show the willingness and ability to be conciliatory.7. Y meltre les doigts: To have 'sticky fingers', to pinch, to steal.8. Mettre à disposition (pol.): To haul someone in front of a magistrate.9. Ote-toi de là que je m'y metle! (Jocular and ironic catch phrase): Move over! — Buzz off!10. Mettons que (also: Mettez que): Let's say that¼Mettons que tu l'épouses, ça ne va pas résoudre le problème: Getting married to her won't solve your problem.II.v. trans. reflex.1. Se mettre avec quelqu'un: To 'shack up with someone', to start cohabiting.2. Se mettre bien:a To 'dress to the nincs', to put one's best clothes on.b To 'do oneself proud', to deny oneself nothing.a To 'stuff oneself to the gills', to eat voraciously.b To get one's fill (of any pleasurable activity). -
13 misere
n. f.1. Pleurer misère: To plead poverty (in a whining fashion).2. Quelle misére! What a life! (we lead).3. Ça vous tombe dessus comme la misère sur le pauvre monde: This catch phrase, very much in the vein of 'it never rains but it pours', expresses persistent 'bolt-out-of-theblue' bad luck. A more colloquial alternative is: Ça vous tombe dessus comme la vérole sur le bas-clergé breton.4. Faire des miseres à quelqu'un: To 'give someone a bad time', to taunt and torment.5. Une misère: A mere trifle. Il a eu sa baraque pour une misère: That house of his he got practically given.6. Misère! Oh dear! (This interjection, particularly popular in Provence, can be tainted with irony or jocularity according to context and intonation, and is often used m expressions such as: Misère de nous autres! We're the poor buggers!) -
14 mot
n. m.1. Se donner le mot: To 'get in cahoots', to conspire.2. Avoir deux mots à dire à quelqu'un: To have a few (usually unpleasant) things to say to someone.3. Avoir des mots avec quelqu'un: To 'have a barney' with, to quarrel with someone.4. Ne pas mâcher ses mots: 'Not to mince one's words', to speak one's mind forcefully.6. Pas un mot à la reine mère! (Jocular catch phrase): Mum's the word! — Keep it quiet! -
15 mouche
n. f.1. (sch.): 'Sneak', tell-tale.2. (Prison slang): 'Snitch', informer.3. Fine mouche: 'Canny customer', cunning and resourceful individual. C'est une fine mouche, tu sais! She wasn't born yesterday!4. Gober des mouches: To be 'stood gawping', to have a look of bewildered amazement on one's face.5. Quelle mouche t'a piqué?! (fig.): What's eating you?! — What on earth is the matter with you?!6. Ne pas avoir peur des mouches: To be no coward, to have guts, to be courageous.7. Faire la mouche du coche: To act the busybody and antagonize everyone.8. Mouche à merde: Scandal-monger, character who delights in spreading nasty rumours.9. Tuer les mouches à quinze pas (joc.): To suffer from 'terminal halitosis', to have really bad breath.10. C'est à cause des mouches! (Ironical catch phrase): Ask me another! — What answer do you expect?!11. Attraper les mouches (of woman): To 'lie back and think of England', to be anything but a willing participant during intercourse.12. Pattes de mouche: Spidery scrawl, illegible handwriting.13. Enculeur de mouches: 'Finicky nurk', overfussy and exacting character. -
16 mouron
n. m.1. Hair (usually tufts of hair).3. C'est pas du mouron pour ton serin! (Ironical catch phrase): This isn't really for you! (This expression is ambivalent in that the ancillary can either be 'lt's not good enough for you' or 'You don't deserve it'.) -
17 musique
n. f.1. 'Flannel', flattery. Je l'ai vu venir, lui et sa musique! I could spot him a mile off, him and his soft soap!2. De la musique: A bunch of lies. On lui pose une question et il vous sert de la musique: You ask him a direct question and he gives you a load of bull!3. 'Con', confidence trick. Monter une musique: To set up a rip-off.4. Blackmail. (It is worth mentioning that chantage is the non-colloquial word.)5. 'Fuss', row. Quand il a appris ça, il nous a fait une de ces musiques: When they broke the news to him, he flew off the handle. Il va y avoir de la musique au kiosque! (of marital row): It's going to be a right old ding-dong!6. Baisse un peu la musique! Pipe down, will you! — Don't talk so loudly!7. Connaître la musique! To 'know the ropes', to know one's way around. Pas de danger avec lui, il connaît la musique: I wouldn't worry about him, he knows what to do!8. C'est réglé comme du papier à musique (of project, plan): It's planned to the very last detail. (As detailed and accurate as a musical score.)a To change the subject. Change de musique veux-tu?! I wish you wouldn't harp on!b To change one's tune, to take another stance. Il a vite changé de musique quand il a vu les résultats: When he heard the news, his about-turn was a lesson in instant diplomacy.10. En avant la musique! On with the show! (This jocular, slightly ironical catch phrase is usually uttered when a reluctant go-ahead is given to a project.) -
18 mystère
n. m.1. Elaborate and tasty ice-cream confection.2. Mystère et boule de gomme! (joc. & iron. catch phrase): Search me! — Heaven knows what it's all about! -
19 nègre
n. m.1. Ghost-writer, one who does the literary donkey-work for a famous and otherwise busy author.2. Faire le nègre: To be landed with all the chores.3. Faire comme le nègre, continuer: To carry on with what one is doing. (The origin of what could loosely be called an ironical catch phrase is to be found in the seemingly pointless comment uttered by Marshal Mac-Mahon, President of the French Republic in the 1870s. When visiting a military academy he asked a junior recruit what his functions were and when told 'Je suis le nègre', i.e. one acting as a temporary batman, MacMahon, always lost for a word, simply said:'Eh bien, continuez!'. the French equivalent to the military: 'Carry on as you were!')4. Parler petit nègre: To speak broken French. ( Petit nègre is the French counterpart to pidgin English.)5. C'est comme un combat de nègres dans un tunnel (joc. & iron.): I defy anyone to make head or tail of all this! -
20 neveu
n. m. Un peu, mon neveu! Not half! — You bet! — I should jolly well think so! (This jocular catch phrase, in spite of its built-in nonsense rhyme, is in no way relatable to English rhyming slang.)
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