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101 fichtre
interj.1. Expressing surprise. Cripes! —Crumbs! — Good gracious! Fichtre! Toi ici?! Fancy meeting you here!2. Expressing admiration. Une Rolls?! Fichtre! Tu ne te refuses rien! A Rolls, no less?! You've certainly got on in life!3. Expressing annoyance. Damn! — Blast! — Hell! Fichtre, alors! Foutez-moi la paix pendant l'heure du déjeuner! Bloody hell! Isn't a man entitled to his lunch break?!4. Expressing pain. Ow! — Ouch! Fichtre! T'aurais pu te couper les ongles! Ouch! Those nails of yours aren't half sharp!5. Used as an 'intensifier' within a sentence. (In the affirmative) Ra-ther! — You bet! —Too right! (In the negative) No fear! — Not bloody likely! Je n 'en sais fichtre rien! I'll be hanged if I know! -
102 fromage
n. m.1. 'Cushy number', easy and highly profitable occupation. Il s'est bloqué un de ces fromages! He's certainly landed the plum of plums!2. (En) faire tout un fromage: To 'kick up a fuss', to 'make a song-and-dance about something', to create a verbal commotion.3. Laisser aller le chat au fromage: Not to put up much of a fight, to give in easily.4. (pl.): 'Tootsies', toes. -
103 gant
n. m.1. Retourner quelqu'un comme un gant: To 'twist someone round one's little finger', to be so forceful as to sway someone into changing their mind.2. Prendre des gants ( avec quelqu'un): To take great care not to offcnd or upset someone. Il n'a pas pris des gants pour lui dire ses quatre vérités! He wasn't out to spare her feelings when he told her a few home truths!3. Ça me va comme un gant: It suits me to a T— That suits me down to the ground—That's certainly O.K. by me.4. Se donner des gants: To take the credit for doing something. Comme toujours il s'est donné des gants: Like the modest so-and-so he is, he pulled the blanket to himself yet again!5. Savonner quelqu'un au gant de crin: To give someone a sharp telling-off.7. En être pour ses gants: To be 'the fall-guy', to be the sucker. J'en ai été pour mes gants! It's muggins who carried the can! -
104 os
n. m.1. 'Hitch', unexpected snag. Il y a comme un os! I can feel there's something wrong here! Tomber sur un os: To hit a snag. (San-Antonio probably gave the word, with this meaning, literary status when he wrote the novel Un os dans la noce. The expression il y a un os dans le fromage belongs to the register of the police force, and means that enquiries have come to a halt.)2. (Underworld slang): 'Evil customer', dangerous character (one definitely to be steered clear of).3. 'Bone-shaker', 'banger', clappedout car. Il s'est fait fourguer le dernier des os: They flogged him a right heap of rust!4. Ne pas faire de vieux os (never in the present tense): Not to be long for this world. Au train où il va, il ne fera pas de vieux os! If he keeps this up, he'll soon be for the knacker's yard!5. Sauver ses os: To save one's skin.6. Se rompre les os pour faire quelque chose (fig.): To break one's back in order to do something.7. Se casser les os (fig.): To 'come unstuck', to 'come a cropper', to fail.8. Etre trempé jusqu'aux os: To be 'soaked to the skin', to be wet through. Etre gelé jusqu'aux os: To be frozen to the marrow.9. L'avoir dans l'os: To have been 'had', 'conned', to have been duped. Et comment qu'il l'a eu dans l'os! They took him good and proper!10. Jusqu'à l'os: Through and through. Il nous a blousés jusqu'à l'os: He completely pulled the wool over our eyes.11. Ça vaut l'os! It's well worth it! — It's certainly worthwhile!12. Gagner son os: To earn a crust. Pour gagner son os, ces temps- ci, faut se lever tôt! It's all graft these days if you want to earn a living!13. Os à moelle:a 'Conk', 'hooter', nose (the runny kind).b 'Prick', 'cock', penis. (The expression faire juter l'os is generally lexicalized as having two meanings, according to which part of the anatomy it refers to:a To blow one's nose.b To ejaculate. Avoir l'os is more accurately translated by 'to have the big stick', to have an erection.) -
105 rigolade
n. f.1. Laughter, merriment.2. 'Funand-games', larking about. Sans rigolade, on aurait crevé d'ennui au régiment! National Service would have been a drag without all that horsing about!3. Sexy capers. Il ne pense qu'à la rigolade! He's got sex on the brain!4. Prendre quelque chose à la rigolade: Not to take something seriously. Il n'a pas pris ça à la rigolade! He certainly didn't take it as a joke!5. Ce n'est pas de la rigolade! It's no laughing matter!6. Une vraie rigolade (of task, undertaking): Mere child's play. -
106 sabot
n. m.1. 'Old tub', seagoing vessel long past its prime.2. Inefficient and worthless bit of machinery.3. 'Bungler', 'botcher' (literally a character who unwittingly 'sabotages' whatever task he undertakes).4. (Gambling): 'Shoe', box from which cards are dispensed to players in games such as baccarat.5. Il joue comme un sabot! He can't play for toffee!6. Voir venir quelqu'un avec ses gros sabots (iron.): To be no mug where trickery is concerned. Je l'ai vu venir avec ses gros sabots! I could see what his little game was! (He certainly wasn't fooling me!)a To be 'always on,the go', to be full of energy.b To be 'on the ball', not to be lacking the spirit of enterprise. -
107 venir
v. intrans. Voir venir quelqu'un (fig. & iron.): To 'see what someone is driving at', to not be fooled by someone's manoeuvering. Je l'ai vu venir avec ses gros sabots! He certainly wasn't going to fool me!
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