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2 patte
n. f.1. 'Pin', 'gamb', leg. Aller à pattes: To 'hoof it', to have to walk. Aux pattes! (Let's) scram! Ne pas être solide sur ses pattes: To be unsteady on one's pins. Tirer la patte: To limp.2. En avoir plein les pattes: To be 'all-in', to feel worn-out.3. Ça ne casse pas quatre pattes à un canard! (joc. & iron.): It's no great shakes! — I don't rate it very highly!4. Lever la patte (of man):a To have a 'slash', to urinate (literally to cock a leg).b To get a 'leg-over', to 'screw', to have coition.5. Marcher sur trois pattes (of conventional motor car): To fire on only three cylinders. (An offspring of the above literal meaning, the figurative describes a venture or undertaking that is not running smoothly.)6. Traîner la patte: To 'come the old soldier' (literally to exaggerate a limp in order to get compassion).a To 'put a spoke in someone's wheel', to hamper someone's progress.b To 'stab someone in the back', to speak ill of someone.8. Etre fait aux pattes (also: se faire faire aux pattes): To get 'nabbed', to be 'collared', to get arrested.9. 'Mitt', 'paw', hand. Arriver les pattes vides: To come empty-handed. Bas les pattes! (Woman's retort): Stop pawing! — Keep your hands to yourself!10. Faire patte de velours (fig.): To 'draw in one's claws', to be extra gentle with someone.11. Faire ( des) pattes d'araignée à quelqu'un: To 'goose', to caress lightly with nails and fingertips.12. Faire des pattes de mouche: To write in a spidery script.13. Graisser la patte à quelqu'un: To 'grease someone's palm', to bribe someone.14. Faire quelque chose aux pattes: To 'lift', to 'pinch' something.15. Avoir le coup de patte: To 'have the knack', to be skilful at something.16. Pattes de lapin (Hairstyle): Short sideboards.17. Feet (without colloquial overtones). Retomber sur ses pattes:a To 'fall on one's feet', to come off better than one might have expected.b To 'get offscot-free', to escape ill-fate or retribution, sometimes through good fortune, but more often than not through connivance.18. Se fourrer dans les pattes de quelqu'un: To disturb someone (literally to get in someone's way).19. Mettre une affaire sur pattes: To start up a business, to get an enterprise under way.20 Avoir des pattes d'oie: To have 'crow's feet', 'laugh-lines', to have wrinkles around the eyes.
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