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1 carburer
v. intrans.1. To 'cough up', to 'fork out', to pay.2. To booze, to drink heavily. Elle carbure à la vodka et quelle descente! Her poison is vodka and she can't half knock 'em back!3. Ça carbure bien! Things are going swimmingly! Ça carbure mal! We're having a few problems! Alors, ça carbure? How's tricks? — How is business? (The expression ça va carburer! can sometimes mean 'things are going to hot up!', i.e. 'we're in for some heated exchanges!') -
2 huile
n. f.1. 'Big shot', 'big nob', top person. Les huiles: 'The upper crust', the high and mighty of society.2. de l'huile: 'Brass', 'loot', money (perhaps because it oils the works).3. Mettre de l'huile sur le feu (fig.): To 'stir it', to make matters worse (when people are arguing).4. Ça baigne dans l'huile! Things are going swimmingly! — Everything's just fine!5. Huile de coude: 'Elbow grease', hard work.6. à l'huile (adj.exp.): 'Lousy', useless, worthless. Il m'a sorti des excuses à l'huile: He came out with a load of phoney excuses. -
3 roulettes
n. f. pl.1. Marcher (also: aller) comme sur des roulettes (of project, enterprise): To 'go swimmingly', to go without a hitch. Ça a marché comme sur des roulettes! It was all plain sailing!2. Etre à la roulette: To be 'on the ball', to be with it, to be not lacking in the 'get-up-and-go' spirit.3. Les vaches à roulettes: The fuzz', the police (those that are motorized, because they are 'on wheels').
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swimmingly — If things are going swimmingly, they are going very well … The small dictionary of idiomes
Swimmingly — Swim ming*ly, adv. In an easy, gliding manner, as if swimming; smoothly; successfully; prosperously. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
swimmingly — “with steady, smooth progress,” 1620s, from SWIMMING (Cf. swimming) + LY (Cf. ly) (2) … Etymology dictionary
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swimmingly — ► ADVERB informal ▪ smoothly and satisfactorily … English terms dictionary
swimmingly — [swim′iŋlē] adv. easily and with success … English World dictionary
swimmingly — swim|ming|ly [ˈswımıŋli] adv old fashioned go swimmingly if something you plan goes swimmingly, it happens without problems … Dictionary of contemporary English
swimmingly — [[t]swɪ̱mɪŋli[/t]] PHRASE: V inflects If you say that something is going swimmingly, you mean that everything is happening in a satisfactory way, without any problems. [INFORMAL] The work has been going swimmingly … English dictionary
swimmingly — adverb old fashioned go swimmingly if something you plan goes swimmingly, it happens without problems … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
swimmingly — mod. quite nicely. □ I’m having a fine time here. Everything is going along just swimmingly. □ The plans are moving ahead swimmingly … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
swimmingly — adverb Date: 1622 very well ; splendidly < the event went swimmingly > … New Collegiate Dictionary