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n. f.1. 'Mix-up', confusion. Quelle salade! It's a proper shambles! (also: salade russe).2. En salade: In a 'higgledy-piggledy' way, in a disorderly manner. Il nous a présenté ses arguments en salade: The case he put to us was a jumble of facts and angles.3. (also pl.): 'Bullshit', 'baloney', nonsense. J'en ai marre de toute cette salade! I'm sick to the back teeth of all this tommyrot! Je ne crois pas à toutes ses salades! I don't believe all the bilge he's spouting!4. (pl.): 'Nasty tittle-tattle', evil gossip (the inference being that it is 'a pack of lies'). Il est toujours à balancer des salades sur ses meilleurs 'copains': He's always doing the dirty on his so-called pals.a To 'stir it', to create trouble (usually by passing on malicious gossip).b To put up a barrage of excuses (in order to avoid chores, etc.).6. Passer une salade à quelqu'un: To give someone 'a real wigging', a good telling-off.7. Bonnir sa salade à quelqu'un: To 'give someone the full spiel', to spin someone a right old yarn. (The assumption is that the recipient falls for it hook, line and sinker.)8. Vendre sa salade: To 'know one's onions', to know one's trade or business inside-out.9. Savoir vendre sa salade: To have the gift of the gab (literally to be able to sell sand to the Arabs).10. Avoir une salade au cul: To have something unpleasant lurking m one's past. (This is not so much a case of skeletons in the cupboard as the Damoclean consequences to recent misdemeanours.)
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