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81 flambeau
n. m.1. Passer lefiambeau: To let someone else 'carry the flame', to pass responsibility to someone else.2. Avoir du flambeau (Gambling slang): To have the luck of the devil. -
82 impasse
n. f. (sch.): Calculated exam risk whereby a student shortcuts his (revision) work-load by not studying part of the syllabus. Il a fait de ces impasses et n'a pas été recalé! The lucky devil! He passed his exam in spite of skipping most of the programme. -
83 large
I.n. m.1. Prendre le large: To 'make oneself scarce', to 'vamoose', to clear off.2. Gagner le large: To 'get out of harm's way', to steer clear of trouble.3. Donner du large à quelqu'un: To 'give someone a wide berth', to carefully avoid someone.II.adj.1. L'avoir large: To have 'the luck of the devil', to be extremely fortunate.2. Ne pas être large du dos: To be 'tight-fisted', to be mean.III.adv. Ne pas en mener large: To feel deflated and down-in-the-mouth, to be crestfallen. -
84 mal
I.n. m.1. Avoir (also: se donner) un mal de chien: To have the devil of a job. Elle se donne un mal de chien pour élever ses enfants: She sweats her guts out to bring up her kids.2. Avoir mal aux cheveux'. To 'have a hangover', to feel the after-effects of a drinking bout.3. Etre guéri du mal de dents (iron.): To be 'out of one's misery', to be dead.4. En avoir mal au ventre: To feel sick at the thought of something.5. Un pantalon à la mal au ventre: Old-fashioned trousers with frontal pockets.II.adv.1. La foutre mai. To 'look bad', to give a bad impression. Vraiment, tu la fous mal toujours en pullover: You really let the side down, always wearing baggy pullovers.2. Ça va mal, non?! (iron.): Are you alright?! — You must be joking!3. Tu vas mal, toi! You're going it a bit strong! —You're exaggerating!4. Tu me fais mal, toi! You give me the pip! — You make me sick!5. Se trouver mal sur quelque chose (joc.): To 'nick', to 'pinch', to steal something. -
85 mantgancer
v. pronom.1. Je me demande ce qui se manigance! I wonder what's cooking! — I wonder what's going on.2. Comment ça se manigance, ce machin? How the devil does that thing work? -
86 matois
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87 mieux
adv. & n. m.1. Qui dit mieux?! (joc. & iron.): Any advance on that?! (This expression and its English equivalent originate from the vocabulary of auctioneering, and have drifted into colloquial language with a sarcastic undertone where, for instance, 'tall stories' are concerned.)2. On nepeutpas mieux! You can't top that!3. Tout ce qu'il y a de mieux: 'The tops', nothing but the best.4. Etre au mieux avec quelqu'un: To be 'well in with someone', to be on the best of terms with someone.5. Faute de mieux: For want of anything better. (The ancillary clause to this 'Needsmust-when-the-Devil-drives' expression is the surprising¼on couche avec sa femme.)6. A-qui-mieux-mieux: In competition, in close rivalry (trying to outdo the opposition). Ce sont des adeptes du qui-mieux-mieux: They belong to the 'one-up-on-the-Joneses' brigade. -
88 moineau
n. m.1. Avoir une cervelle de moineau: To have a 'bird-brain', to be empty-headed.2. (pej.): 'Bloke', 'geezer', fellow. Et qui c'est, ce moineau-la?! And who the devil's that character?! Un drôle de moineau: A 'queer cuss', a weird bloke (one not to be trusted). Un vilain moineau: A 'bad egg'. a 'nasty piece of work', an unpleasant and untrustworthy person. -
89 nickelé
adj. Avoir les pieds nickelés:a To be a 'jammy bugger', to have the luck of the devil. (The Pieds-Nickelés, the creation of the humorous cartoonist Louis Forton, are three happy-go-lucky characters who boomerang from rags to riches and back to rags in every episode. Their ability to fall back on their feet and laugh at adversity was and is their trademark as their hilarious cartoon capers are forever being revived.)b To sit tight, to refuse to budge. (This expression is often used in a work context when referring to an obstreperous employee.) -
90 oignon
n. m.1. 'Turnip', fob-watch.2. Arsehole, anus. L'avoir dans l'oignon: To have been 'conned', 'diddled', to have been duped. Quand il a repris son fric, c'est nous qu'on l'a eu dans l'oignon: It really fucked us up when he withdrew his subsidies!3. Luck, good fortune. Avoir de l'oignon: To have the luck of the devil. (Expressions such as avoir l'oignon qui décalotte, synonymous with the previous one, tend to emphasize what Albert Simonin states in his NOUVEAU DICTIONNAIRE DE L'ARGOT, namely the link between sodomy and good fortune. Simonin is of the opinion that many successes can be linked to past homosexual liaisons. A similar bias can be found in cocu; see that word.)4. En rang d'oignons: In a neat row. On avait l'air vraiment fin là, tous en rang d'oignons! There we were standing like a neat row of dummies! (It would appear that the expression comes from the language of the vegetable garden, and usually refers to people.)5. Ce n'est pas (also: ce ne sont pas) mes oignons! It's none of my business! Je fais ce qui me plaît, c'est mes oignons! What I do is my business! Occupe-toi de tes oignons! Keep your nose out of it!6. Aux petits oignons: 'First-rate', 'smashing', superb. Son système, il est aux petits oignons! You can't fault the way he organizes things!7. Arranger quelqu'un aux petits oignons (iron.): To 'give someone a proper dressing-down', to tell someone off in no uncertain manner.8. Course à l'oignon: Act of chucking someone out by the scruff of his neck and the seat of his pants.9. Un oignon à réclamers (Racing slang): A selling-stakes nag (the kind of steed unlikely to ever really make it on the courses). -
91 pinceau
n. m.1. 'Gamb', 'pin', leg. Tricoter des pinceaux: To 'make tracks', to move speedily.2. (pl.): 'Plates of meat', 'hoofs', feet. S'emmêler les pinceaux: To fall over one's feet. Se décrasser les pinceaux: To wash one's tootsies.3. 'Joystick', 'cock', penis. Avoir un sacré coup de pinceau: To be a 'superstud'.4. Etre verni au pinceau à merde: To have the luck of the devil. -
92 popotin
n. m.1. 'Botty', 'bum', behind. Trémousser du popotin: To 'shake it all about', to dance.2. Se magner le popotin: To 'get one's skates on', to 'get a move on', to hurry up.3. Avoir du popotin: To be 'jammy', to be lucky. Quand on tape des cartons qu'est-ce qu'il a comme popotin! When we play cards he seems to have the luck of the devil! -
93 pot
n. m.1. 'Arse', 'bum', behind. (Few expressions containing the word pot have literal meanings. Most, like se manier le pot: to 'put one's skates on', to hurry up and en avoir plein le pot: to be fed-up, are figurative derivations.)2. Luck, good fortune. Avoir un sacré pot: To have the luck of the devil. Un coup de pot: A lucky break. Manque de pot! Hard cheese! — Hard luck! (There is a strange correlation between sodomy as in se faire casser le pot and good fortune, which would suggest as with cocu (see that word) that sexual favours and good luck are closely intertwined.)3. Drink, alcoholic beverage. (Although some lexicographers describe the drink as being a 'short', the very nature of the straight meaning of the word suggests it is a long drink, i.e. wine or beer. Prendre un pot avec quelqu'un: To have a jar with someone.)4. (Gambling slang): 'Pot', kitty, pool of money staked at cards, etc.5. Faire son pot: To 'make one's pile', to amass a tidy sum of money.6. Payer les pots cassés: To 'carry the can', to pay the consequences (often literally, on the financial plane).8. Pot de yaourt (joc.): Bubble- car. (In the 50s, the most popular bubble-car in France was manufactured by Isetta. These vehicles with their large glass area and striking white colour quickly earned this nickname.)9. Etre sourd comme un pot: To be as deaf as a post.10. Tourner autour du pot: To 'beat about the bush', to tackle a problem or a situation in a dilly-dally manner.11. Etre bête comme un pot: To be 'as thick as two short planks', to be as dumb as they come.12. Ne pas bousculer le pot de fleurs: To 'keep things on an even keel', to 'avoid upsetting the apple-cart', to refrain from causing trouble.13. Ne t'occupe pas du pot! Leave it to me! — Let me worry about it!14. Pot aux roses: Sensitive secret. Découvrir le pot aux roses: To stumble on a bit of scandal. (Because of a possible hiatus, the 't' in pot is pronounced as a liaison in colloquial contexts.) -
94 rabouin
n. m.1. 'Gyppo', gypsy. (The feminine rabouine exists but is not often encountered.)2. Le Rabouin: The devil (Mephistopheles). -
95 raffut
n. m.1. 'Din', 'racket', noise.2. 'Hullabaloo', uproar. Il a fait un de ces raffuts quand on lui a présenté l'addition: He certainly kicked up a fuss when they gave him the bill. Un raffut de tous les diables: A devil of a row. -
96 sacré
adj. intensifier.1. Expletive expressions such as bordel de merde!—nom de nom! become more potent when preceded by sacré.2. According to the context, sacré can crystallize admiration as in une sacrée idée: one hell of a good idea; envy as in avoir un sacré pot: to have the luck of the devil; or contempt as in une sacrée fripouille (of man): an out-and-out swine. -
97 tarte
I.n. f.1. 'Biff', blow (usually a slap in the face).2. C'est de la tarte! 'lt's a piece of cake!'—It's as easy as pie! — It's (dead) simple! Lui faire payer l'addition, ça va pas être de la tarte! Getting him to pay the bill's going to be no doddle!3. Avoir de la tarte (Gambling slang): To have the luck of the devil.II.adj. inv.1. Ugly. Sa dernière nana est d'un tarte! That latest bird of his is some eyesore!2. 'Crummy', 'lousy', worthless.3. (of person): 'Thick', stupid.4. (of happening): Stupid, silly. Il lui arrive toujours des histoires tarte! The daftest things seem to happen to him! -
98 travs
n. m. pl. (abbr. travaux forces). Les travs: Hard labour, penal servitude. Fricoter dans les faux talbins jadis, ça valait les travs à perpète! In the old days, counterfeiting meant Devil's Island for life! -
99 vase
I.n. m.1. Le vase: The arse-hole, the anal sphincter.2. Avoir du vase: To have the luck of the devil. Il a eu un vase terrible ces temps-ci au P.m.U.! Lately he's had an incredible winning streak with the gee-gees! (It is interesting to note that sodomy and good fortune are often associated in modern colloquial French as exemplified in expressions such as avoir du fion, avoir un cul terrible.)II.n. f.1. Rain. Il nous est tombé une de ces vases! It just poured buckets!2. 'Corporation pop', 'Adam's ale', water.3. Etre dans la vase: To be 'in the shit', 'in the soup', to be in a fix. -
100 veinard
I.n. m. Lucky devil. Sacré veinard! You jammy bugger!II.adj. Lucky, fortunate.
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