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1 peau
n. f.2. Avoir quelqu'un dans la peau: To be 'hooked on someone' (very much in the vein of the American song 'I've got you under my skin').3. Porter à la peau de quelqu'un: To turn someone on, to titillate, to arouse someone's sexual desires. Elle nous porte tous à la peau au bureau! At the office she's made lechers of us all!4. Se sentir bien dans sa peau: To feel on top of the world and in the happiest frame of mind. Se sentir mal dans sa peau: To feel ill at ease.5. Traîner sa peau: To 'mooch about', to laze around.6. Faire peau neuve: To turn over a new leaf, to amend one's ways.7. Mettez-vous dans ma peau! Put yourself in my shoes!8. Avoir la peau trop courte: To be a 'lazybones', to be an idle so-and-so (also: les avoir palmées).9. Faire quelque chose pour la peau: To get bugger-all for one's efforts, to work for no recompense at all.10. Y laisser sa peau: To die, to fall victim to. (This expression can also have a figurative, less traumatic secondary meaning. Encore une hausse et nous y laisserons tous notre peau! Another price rise and we've had it!)11. Faire la peau à quelqu'un: To 'do someone in', to kill someone (usually through stabbing).12. J'aurai sa peau! I'll have his guts for garters! (The strong literal meaning 'I'll kill him!' is very seldom encountered.)13. Une peau de vache: A 'bastard', a mean and hateful character. Faire la peau de vache: To behave like a heel. (Peau de vache! and other expressions starting with peau de are all associated with verbal insults: Peau de fesses! You pillock! New ones come and go with the fluctuations of language.)14. Peau de balle (et balai de crin!): Bugger-all! — Damn all! On a touché peau de balle! We didn't get a penny for our efforts! (The latch-on et balai de crin bit of the expression turns it into a jocular catch phrase; the French have a penchant for such nonsense rhyme-like phrases.)15. En peau de lapin (of person): 'Two-bit', of no significance. Un politicien en peau de lapin: An 'all-talkand-no-action' politician.16. En peau de saucisson (of goods): 'Tatty' and worthless. Une valoche en peau de saucisson: A crappy little suitcase (literally, in this instance, made of the cheapest imitation leather).17. Une peau de banane (fig.): Booby-trap. Il est tombé sur une de ces peaux de banane! He fell right in it!
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