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1 bois
n. m.1. Etre dans ses bois: To live in unfurnished digs (literally, as the alternative être dans ses meubles further suggests, to have rented accommodation furnished with one's own items).2. Etre du bois dont onfait des flûtes: To be easy-going, to be the amenable type.3. Vous allez voir de quel bois je me chauffe! You'll see what stuff I'm made of! (The expression is usually uttered in anger.)4. Casser du bois: To crash land. (The expression obviously originates from the days when aeroplanes had wooden frames.)5. Etre dans les bois (Football): To be in goal, to act as goalkeeper.6. Chèque en bois: 'Rubber cheque' (the kind that is returned to the payee by his bank as invalid).7. 'Croix de bois, croix de fer, si je meursje vais en enfer!' 'Cross my heart and hope to die' (if what I say is untrue!). -
2 carrer
I.v. trans.1. To hide. Vite! Carre ton pognon, v'là lesflics! Quick, stash the dough away, here come the fuzz!2. Tu peux te le carrer dans l'oignon! (joc. & iron.): You know what you can do with it!II.v. intrans. To live (somewhere). Ils carrent ensemble: They share digs.III.v. trans. reflex.1. To 'lie low', to hide (also: se planquer).2. To 'blow', to 'make tracks', to run away. Carre-toi! Make yourself scarce! -
3 garni
I.n. m.1. Furnished accommodation. Vivre en garni: To live in furnished digs.2. 'Knockingshop', hotel room. (Originally the gami was an inexpensive hotel let by the week or the month to regulars. With the closing of brothels and the outlawing of prostitution, prostitutes started using them to ply their trade, giving them a bad name. Also: garno.)II.adj. Etre bien garnie (of woman): To be 'well-stacked', to 'have everything in the right places', to be physically well-endowed. -
4 gîter
v. intrans. To 'hang out', to live somewhere. Où que tu gîtes? Where are your digs? -
5 meubles
n. m. pl.1. Etre dans ses meubles: To live in 'unfurnished' digs (i.e. to have all one's own furniture). Se mettre dans ses meubles: To move into a place of one's own.2. Sauver les meubles (fig.): To rescue something from a financial disaster. -
6 pioger
v. intrans. To 'have digs', to live somewhere. Où que tu pioges? Where do you hang out?
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