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1 biture
n. f.1. State of drunkenness, intoxication. Tenir une sacrée biture: To be pissed to the eyeballs.2. A toute biture: 'Full-pelt', at full speed. -
2 botte
n. f.1. A toutes bottes: 'At full-pelt', at full speed.2. Lécher les bottes de quelqu'un: To 'suck up to someone', to flatter someone in a servile manner. (A 'crawler' in colloquial French is known as un léche-bottes.)3. En avoir plein les bottes: To be fed up to the back teeth. J'en ai plein les bottes de ses histoires de guerre! I'm sick up to here with his 'How-I-won-the-war' stories!a To 'do the dirty on someone', to play a dirty trick on someone.b To be a 'pain in the arse', to be a bloody nuisance to someone.5. Cirer ses bottes: To 'pop one's clogs', to 'snuff it', to die.6. Ça fait ma botte: That suits me down to the ground. —That's fine by me.7. A propos de bottes: For no reason at all, irrelevantly. (A certain jocularity within the expression stems from its nonsensical nature.)8. Coup de botte: 'Tap', attempt at borrowing money. C'est le roi des coups de bottes! When it comes to getting subs out of people, he's second to none!9. Proposer la botte à quelqu'un: To 'proposition someone', to suggest sexual intercourse.10. Une botte de (also: des bottes de): 'Stacks of', 'masses', lots of. Elle a loupé des bottes d'occases! She's missed oodles of opportunities!11. Sortir dans la botte (sch.): To graduate 'summa cum laude' (with honours). Chiader la botte: To aim for a top degree.12. Botte de radis: 'Tootsies', toes. -
3 fond
n. m.1. Avoir un bon fond: To be goodnatured.2. Etre a fond de cale: To be 'skint', to be 'down on one's uppers', to be penniless.3. A fond de train: 'Full- pelt', at full speed. Aller à fond de train: To 'belt along', to 'bomb along', to go very fast. Travailler a fond de train: To work flat-out. -
4 gazer
v. intrans.1. To 'do a pongy', to 'fart', to break wind (also: louffer).2. To 'pong', to stink.3. To 'go full-pelt', to go full-speed. On a drôlement gazé sur l'autoroute: We belted down the motorway.4. To 'go without a hitch', to go smoothly. Ça gaze? How's tricks? Ça gaze à bloc! Things are going great guns!5. Ça va gazer pour toi! You're going to cop it! —You're definitely in trouble! -
5 tube
n. m.1. 'Belly', stomach. S'en filer plein le tube: To 'stuff one's face', to eat immoderately.3. 'Blower', phone, telephone. Donnez-moi un coup de tube dès qu'il y a du nouveau! Give me a buzz if there's any change!4. (Racing slang): 'Tip', confidential piece of 'inside information'.5. 'Lunger', T.B. sufferer, one afflicted with tuberculosis.6. 'Hit', 'hit-single', highly successful record. Il a un disque avec tous les tubes de Sinatra: He's got an L.P. of Frank Sinatra's greatest hits.a 'Full-pelt', 'flat-out', at full speed. On a monté l'autoroute à plein tube! He drove us up the motorway with his foot to the floor!b Débloquer (also: déconner) à pleins tubes: To 'talk through the back of one's head', to 'spout a load of rubbish', to talk a lot of nonsense. -
6 à fond de train
at full pelt, (at) full tilt -
7 barre
n. f.1. Avoir le coup de barre: To be 'knackered', 'whacked', to feel worn out. Quand on est de nuit, il n'estpas rare d'avoir le coup de barre vers quatre heures du mat': When you're on nights, it's not unusual to feel all-in at around 4 a.m.3. Homme de barre: Staunch friend. (One who, like the helmsman, can be relied upon to stick by you through thick and thin.)4. Zéro la barre! No dice! — Nothing doing! — Certainly not! -
8 berzingue
n. m. (also: bersingue) Aller à tout berzingue: To 'go like the clappers', to 'go full-pelt', to go very fast. -
9 biller
v. intrans, Biller à fond: To 'go full-pelt', to dash along. -
10 blinde
I.n. m. Défendre son blinde: To look after 'number one', to think of one's own interests first.II.n. f. A toute blinde: 'Full-pelt', very fast. Il a roulé à toute blinde: He drove like the clappers. -
11 gaz
n. m.1. Mettre les gaz (also: ouvrir les gaz): To 'put one's foot down', to accelerate violently. Aller à plein(s) gaz: To 'go full-pelt', to 'zoom along', to travel at high speed.2. Eteindre son gaz: To 'snuff it', to 'pop one's clogs', to die.3. Lâcher un gaz: To 'do a pongy', to 'fart', to break wind.4. Il y a de l'eau dans le gaz: There's a fly in the ointment—There's a hitch—We have a problem here.5. (corr. gars): 'Geezer', bloke. C'est pas le mauvais gaz! He's not a bad sort really! -
12 gomme
n. f.1. La gomme: The 'hoity-toity', the 'upper-crust', the élite of society.2.Gomme à effacer les sourires (joc.): 'Cosh', rubber truncheon (also: goumi).3. Aller à toute gomme: To 'drive like the clappers', to go full-pelt.4. A la gomme (adj.exp.): 'Phoney', 'bogus', worthless. J'en ai ralbol de ses excuses à la gomme: I'm sick and tired of his cock-and-bull excuses. -
13 plein
I.n. m. Faire le plein: To take a tankful, to fill a petrol tank with fuel.II.adj.1. 'Pissed to the eyeballs', 'sozzled', rolling drunk.2. Plein aux as: 'Rolling in it', stinking rich.3. En avoir plein le dos (also: les bottes or le cul): To be sick and tired of someone or something.III.adv.2. A plein tube:a As loud as hell. Il branche toujours sa chaîne hi-fi à plein tube: When he plays his music centre, you have to put earplugs in!b 'Full-pelt', at top speed. A plein tube qu'on a traversé la ville! We certainly burnt rubber crossing the town! -
14 peau
1. feminine nouna. [de personne] skin• j'aurai sa peau ! I'll kill him!• être bien dans sa peau to be happy in o.s.• se mettre dans la peau de qn to put o.s. in sb's place• avoir la peau dure (inf) ( = être solide) to be hardy ; ( = résister à la critique) [personne] to be thick-skinned ; [idées, préjugés] to be difficult to get rid of2. compounds* * *peaux po nom féminin1) Anatomie skinavoir la peau dure — fig to be thick-skinned
2) ( d'animal) gén skin; ( pour faire du cuir) hide; ( fourrure) peltgants/veste en or de peau — leather gloves/jacket
3) (de fruit, légume) skin, peel [U]; (d'orange, de citron, pamplemousse) peel [U]les oranges ont une peau épaisse — oranges have thick peel ou a thick rind
4) (pellicule sur le lait, la peinture) skin5) (colloq) ( vie)changer de peau — to turn over a new leaf; vieux
•Phrasal Verbs:••je n'aimerais pas être dans sa peau — I wouldn't like to be in his/her shoes
être bien dans sa peau — (colloq) ( dans sa tête) to feel good about oneself; ( dans son corps) to feel good
être mal dans sa peau — (colloq) ( physiquement) to feel lousy (colloq); ( gêné) to feel ill-at-ease
avoir quelqu'un dans la peau — (colloq) to be crazy about somebody
prendre douze balles dans la peau — (colloq) to be shot by a firing squad
* * *popeaux pl nf1) [personne] skinElle a la peau douce. — She's got soft skin.
se mettre dans la peau de qn — to put o.s. in sb's shoes
2) (= cuir)peau de chamois — chamois leather, shammy
* * *1 Anat skin; avoir la peau grasse/sèche/ridée to have greasy/dry/wrinkled skin; avoir la peau douce to have soft skin; avoir une belle peau to have lovely skin; avoir une peau de pêche to have lovely soft skin; peau morte dead skin; avoir la peau dure fig to be thick-skinned; n'avoir que la peau sur les os to be all skin and bone; prendre une/deux balles dans la peau to be shot once/twice; ⇒ neuf, ours;2 ( d'animal) gén skin; ( pour faire du cuir) hide; ( fourrure) pelt; la peau du porc est couverte de soies the skin of the pig ou pig's skin is all covered in bristles; veste en peau de mouton sheepskin jacket; sac en peau de porc/peau de serpent pigskin/snakeskin bag; ils étaient vêtus de peaux de bêtes they were dressed in animal skins ou hides; gants/veste en or de peau leather gloves/jacket;3 (de fruit, légume) skin, peel; (d'orange, de citron, pamplemousse) peel ¢; les oranges ont une peau épaisse oranges have thick peel ou have a thick rind; enlever la peau d'un légume/fruit to peel a vegetable/fruit;4 ( pellicule) (de lait, peinture) skin;5 ○( vie) jouer or risquer sa peau to risk one's life; faire la peau à qn to kill sb, to bump sb off○; sauver sa peau to save one's skin; tenir à sa peau to value one's life; vouloir la peau de qn to want sb dead; changer de peau to turn over a new leaf; craindre pour sa peau to fear for one's life; tu y laisseras ta peau it'll kill you.peau d'âne hum diploma; peau de banane lit banana skin; fig trap; peau de chagrin Mode shagreen; rétrécir comme une peau de chagrin to shrink away to nothing; peau de chamois chamois leather, shammy (leather); peau d'orange orange peel skin, cellulite; peau de tambour Mus drumhead; tendu comme une peau de tambour as taut as a drumskin; peau de vache lit cowhide; fig○ nasty piece of work GB, shit◑.peau de balle or de zébi○! no way!, nothing doing○!; je n'aimerais pas être dans sa peau I wouldn't like to be in his/her shoes; être or se sentir bien dans sa peau○ ( dans sa tête) to feel good about oneself; ( dans son corps) to feel good; être or se sentir mal dans sa peau○ ( physiquement) to feel lousy○; ( psychologiquement) not to feel good about oneself; ( gêné) to feel ill-at-ease; avoir qn dans la peau○ to be crazy about sb; prendre or recevoir douze balles dans la peau○ to be shot by a firing squad.avoir la peau sèche/grasse to have dry/greasy skinn'avoir que la peau et ou sur les os to be all skin and bonesêtre mal dans sa peau to feel bad about oneself, to be unhappyentrer ou se mettre dans la peau de quelqu'un to put oneself in somebody's shoes ou placeavoir quelqu'un dans la peau to be crazy about somebody, to have somebody under one's skin[fourrure] peltune peau d'âne [diplôme] a diplomapeau de chamois [chiffon] chamois leather3. [d'un fruit, d'un légume, du lait bouilli] skin[du fromage] rind4. (locution)peau de balle (et balai de crin) (très familier) , peau de zébi (vulgaire) [refus, mépris] no way (UK), nothing doing (US)————————peau d'orange nom fémininpeau de vache (très familier) nom féminin[homme] bastard (très familier)
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