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61 faute
n. f.1. Faute de mieux on couche avec sa femme! Needs must where the devil drives! (If the naïve Anglo-Saxon users of the expression faute de mieux knew its rhetorical ending they might avoid using it.)2. C'est la faute à pas-de- chance: It's just one of those things! — Accidents like that just happen! -
62 maison
I.n. f.1. (abbr. maison close or maison de passe): 'Cat-house', brothel. Maison d'abattage: Low-class brothel (usually situated near a harbour or army barracks).2. La Grande Maison: 'The cop-shop', the police station.3. La maison des mille lourdes: 'The big house', 'the nick', prison.4. La maison tire-boutons: Lesbianism.5. Gros comme une maison (adv. exp.): Plainly, clearly, obviously. Gros comme une maison, j'ai vu qu'il allait me demander du fric: I just knew he was going to ask me for a loan!II.adj. inv. 'Ace', first-rate, really out of the ordinary. Une engueulade maison: One hell of a telling-off. On a fait un gueuleton maison: We had ourselves a slap-up meal! -
63 recta
adv.1. 'On the dot', 'bang on time', punctually. Dans les affaires lesfactures se règlent recta: A good businessman always pays cashon-the-nail.2. 'Spot-on', accurately. Oui, dans le mille mon vieux! Recta! Tu as deviné juste! Yes, you got it in one! — Your guess was bang on target!3. Recta! (as an intensifier): And how! Et recta! Il s'est fait virer de la boîte! He got the push from the old firm and was out before he knew what hit him! -
64 virginité
n. f. Se refaire une virginité: To 'turn over a new leaf', to make a fresh start hoping that the 'clean sheet' remains unblotted by the past. (This expression, which has no sexual connotation, can be equated with the remark made about a famous Hollywood actress of whom a critic said 'I knew her before she was a virgin!')
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