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121 graine
n. f.1. Monter en graine (of child): To 'shoot up', to grow quickly. Ah, les gosses ça monte vite en graine! Kids, before you know it, they've grown up!2. En prendre de la graine: To 'take a leaf out of someone's book', to follow someone's example.3. De la mauvaise graine (of person): A 'nasty piece of work', a disreputable character.4. Casser la graine: To have a bite to eat. -
122 grainer
v. intrans. To 'have a bite', to have a meal. -
123 lait
n. m.1. Avoir encore du lait dans le nez: To be 'still wet behind the ears', to lack maturity.2. Boire du ( petit) lait (where complimentary comments are concerned): To 'lap it all up', to take it all in eagerly.3. Ça se boit comme du petit lait (of innocuous-looking yet potent alcoholic drink): It's so good it just slips down your gullet.4. Etre soupe au lait: To be quick-tempered. Monter comme une soupe au lait: To flare up (usually over trifles).6. Etre une vache à lait (of man or woman): To be a 'soft-touch', to be generous to the point of stupidity where subs and gifts are concerned.7. Lait de poule (Drink): Egg-flip. -
124 occuper
v. pronom.1. S'occuper de ses affaires: To mind one's own business. C'est mes oignons, occupe-toi de tes affaires! Keep out of it, this is my pigeon!2. T'occupe! Mind your own bloody business! (The very brevity of this riposte gives it extra 'bite'.)3. Savoir s'occuper: To 'know one's way around', not to be lacking initiative when it comes to the crunch. -
125 orbite
n. f. En placer un sur orbite: To 'sow one's wild oats' successfully, to get a girl pregnant. (There is tongue-in-cheek humour in the hors bite pun.) -
126 paf
I.n. m.1. 'Prick', 'cock', penis.2. Etre beau comme un paf (joc. & iron.): To 'cut a dash', to look very handsome. (For reasons unknown to the authors, this expression is directly linked to the first meaning, an alternative being: être beau comme une bite en fleur.)3. 'Hitch', unexpected snag. Tomber sur un paf: To 'come a cropper', to suffer a setback (also: tomber sur un os, sur un bec).II.adj. inv.1. 'Pissed', 'sozzled', drunk.2. 'Bonkers', 'potty', mad. T'es complètement paf, non?! Are you crazy or something?! -
127 panthère
n. f.1. Ma panthère: The 'old battleaxe', my wife. (As the image might suggest, the wife in this instance is all tooth-and-claw, eager to keep her man; the expression is non-pejorative.)2. Lait de panthère: Pernod, pastis (because of its bite and its milky colour when mixed with water). -
128 piloches
n. f. pl 'Gnashers', 'choppers', teeth. Allez, on va se mettre quelque chose sous les piloches! Come on, let's have a bite to eat!
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