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101 lascar
n. m. 'Geezer', 'bloke', guy. Un sacré lascar: A 'likely lad' (the kind of chap who always comes out tops). Un rude lascar. A 'tough customer', someone hard to deter. -
102 lecture
n. f. Etre en lecture (of prostitute): To be 'on the job', to be with a customer. (The alternative expression être sous presse has an amusing double entendre.) -
103 levage
n. m. Faire un levage:a To 'chat up a bird', to sweet-talk a potential girlfriend.b (of prostitute): To make a pick-up, to hook a customer. -
104 locomotive
n. f.1. Fumer comme une locomotive: To 'smoke like a chimney', to be a heavy smoker.2. In the vernacular of up-market restaurateurs and night-club owners, une locomotive is the most popular sort of customer, one who brings a lot of trade in his wake, and whose friends and associates like to spend liberally. -
105 monter
I.v. trans. & intrans.1. To go (up) to, to travel to. On est monté à Paris: We travelled to Paris. (The climb is a geographical ascension from south to north.)2. To 'screw', to fuck, to have coition with.3. (Prostitutes' slang): To 'hook' a customer (also: faire une monte).4. Faire monter quelqu'un: To 'send someone up', to make someone look a fool.5. Monter le coup à quelqu'un: To 'con', to deceive someone.II.v. pronom. Se monter pour un rien: To 'get worked up', to get excited over nothing. -
106 mouche
n. f.1. (sch.): 'Sneak', tell-tale.2. (Prison slang): 'Snitch', informer.3. Fine mouche: 'Canny customer', cunning and resourceful individual. C'est une fine mouche, tu sais! She wasn't born yesterday!4. Gober des mouches: To be 'stood gawping', to have a look of bewildered amazement on one's face.5. Quelle mouche t'a piqué?! (fig.): What's eating you?! — What on earth is the matter with you?!6. Ne pas avoir peur des mouches: To be no coward, to have guts, to be courageous.7. Faire la mouche du coche: To act the busybody and antagonize everyone.8. Mouche à merde: Scandal-monger, character who delights in spreading nasty rumours.9. Tuer les mouches à quinze pas (joc.): To suffer from 'terminal halitosis', to have really bad breath.10. C'est à cause des mouches! (Ironical catch phrase): Ask me another! — What answer do you expect?!11. Attraper les mouches (of woman): To 'lie back and think of England', to be anything but a willing participant during intercourse.12. Pattes de mouche: Spidery scrawl, illegible handwriting.13. Enculeur de mouches: 'Finicky nurk', overfussy and exacting character. -
107 nipper
v. trans. reflex. To 'tog oneself up', to 'rig oneself out', to dress. A le voir, on dirait qu'il se nippe aux puces: He seems to be a bespoke customer of the Oxfam shop where togs are concerned! -
108 oiseau
n. m.1. (pej.): 'Obdurate nurk', pigheaded fool. Un drôle d'oiseau: An 'awkward customer'.2. Donner à quelqu'un des nonts d'oiseau: To 'call someone names', to shower abuse on someone. -
109 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.) -
110 potage
n. m.1. Servir le potage à la seringue (joc. & iron.): To act in a miserly way. (The imagery of the expression is illustrated in the film Porte des Lilas featuring Georges Brassens; in that film the proprietor of a very low-class bistrot is seen serving vin rouge with a syringe and when a customer fails to pay, the beverage is sucked back into the dispensing instrument.)a To be 'in the soup', 'in a fix', to be in trouble.b To be 'out cold', to be unconscious.a To fall into the water (a river, the sea, a lake).b To swoon, to faint. -
111 sac
n. m.1. 'Belly', stomach. S'en mettre plein le sac: To 'stuff one's face', to have a hearty meal.2. Unit of ten francs or ten-franc note. (Prior to the 1958 remonetization, the amount was 1000 francs. According to certain sources inflation in the mid-yos resulted in an upgrading of the sac to 100 nouveaux francs.)3. Etre au sac (also: avoir le sac): To be 'stinking rich', to be 'rolling in it', to be very wealthy. (Expressions such as épouser un sac: to marry a wealthy girl, and terms like gros sac: wealthy so-and-so, confirm the money image of this meaning of the word.)4. Faire son sac: To 'make one's pile', to amass a fortune.5. L'affaire est dans le sac!a It's in the bag! — It's a dead-cert! — It's a sure thing!b (iron.): She's preggers! — She is pregnant.6. Avoir son sac: To 'have had a skinful', to be drunk. (The boozing image is further illustrated in the term sac à vin: 'wino', dipsomaniac.)a (of person): To be 'dressed like a guy', to be frumpily attired.b (of work, plans, etc.): To be in a right old mcss, in total disarray.8. Vider son Sac: To 'get something off one's chest', to speak onc's mind.9. Mettez ça dans votre sac!a Keep it under your hat! — Keep this to yourself! — Don't mention this to anyone!b Put that in your pipe and smoke it! — Accept that fact if you can! (There's littlc else you can do!)10. Travailler le sac (Boxing): To have a workout with the punchbag.11. Mettre dans le meme sac (fig.): To 'tar with the same brush', to 'lump together', to judge in the same manner.12. Avoir la tête dans le sac: To be completely out of funds, to be near to financial ruin.14. Sac à malice(s): 'Tricky customer', cunning so- and-so (character who always seems to have something left in his bag of tricks).15. Sac d'embrouilles: Inextricably jumbled issue or situation (literally a tangled web. Also: sac de næuds).16. Sac à viande (joc.): Sleeping-bag.17. Sac d'os: 'Bag of bones', skinny person. Quel sac d'os! I've seen more meat on a butcher's pencil! -
112 simili
n. m. (abbr. simili cuir): Leatherette, imitation leather. Il reconnaissait les tocards à leurs valises en simili: He could weigh up a customer by the quality of his suitcase. -
113 tête
n. f.1. Avoir la tête de l'emploi (iron.): To 'look the part'. Les croque-morts n'ontpas toujours la tête de l'emploi, c'est souvent des rigolos! Undertakers aren't always the mournful buggers we expect them to be!3. Faire la mauvaise tête: To be 'pig-headed', to be obstreperous and reluctant to comply.4. Avoir ses têtes: To 'have one's (little) favourites', to let oneself be ruled by likes and dislikes where relationships at work are concerned.5. Avoir une tête à coucher dehors avec un billet de logetnent: To have an 'ugly mug', to have an unattractive face (in fact, to have the kind of features that would even get you turned a way from a welfare hostel).6. Faire un prix à la tête du client: To quote a price according to the likely means of a customer. Au garage, lesprix sont un peu à la tête du client! If you drive a Rolls, they'll charge the earth for repairs!7. Tête de pipe: Portrait-photograph. J'ai vu sa tête de pipe dans le canard! I've seen his mug somewhere in a paper!10. Affaire tête de lard (pol.): Dead-end enquiry, one where witnesses and accused alike make the police's job more arduous by refusing to co-operate.11. Se payer la tête de quelqu'un: To 'take the piss out of someone', to 'take the mickey', to poke fun at someone.12. Etre tombé sur la tête: To be 'bonkers', 'potty', to be mad. T'es tombé sur la tête, quoi?! You crazy in the head?!a To 'take a header', to dive into the water.b (fig.): To 'go under', to become bankrupt.14. Petite tête! (jocular form of address): Salut, petite tête! Mornin' mate! Alors, comment ça va, petite tête?! Well, how's tricks?!15. Cause à mon cul, ma tête est malade! (sarcastic retort): 'Get knotted'—I don't want to hear what you've got to say!16. La tête et lesjambes: The combination of brains and brawn. (The expression courir avec la tête et les jambes originates from the racing cyclist's slang and refers to competitors who use critical judgement when exerting physical effort. In the 1960s, a television quiz-cum-competition with that name teamed up scholars and sportsmen to compete for prizes.)17. Tenir la tête (Gambling slang): To act as judge and arbiter at the tables. (August Le Breton in his L 'ARGOT CHEZ LES VRAIS DE VRAI explains that this 'refereeing' activity is often given to a 'cleaned-out' player by a gambling baron; the position carries a small commission on stakes.) -
114 varlot
n. m. Time-wasting customer, the kind who can seldom decide on a purchase. -
115 CAMIF
Large mail-order firm, reputed for providing good value for money, which collapsed in late 2008. A cooperative formerly reserved for employees of the French state education system, the CAMIF opened to all in its later years, in an attempt to face up to competition from e-commerce outlets; but its high quality customer-care and after-sales service left it with huge running costs compared to other distance selling operations, and the firm went out of business at the end of 2008.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > CAMIF
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116 K-bis
(Pronounced [Car-bis])an " Extrait K-bis" is an official document certifying that a company is duly registered as such, and thus has a legal existence. Delivered by the local Tribunal de commerce, or Commercial tribunal, it provides a brief but detailed statement of the company's legal status, identity, ownership, and field of business. It is sometimes demanded by banks and administrations, or by corporate suppliers who require a guarantee before opening up an account for a new customerDictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > K-bis
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117 TVA
French Value Added Tax, or sales tax. The main rate in 2013 was 19.6%, and the reduced rate 5.5%. As is the custom throughout Europe, prices displayed at retail level, i.e. in shops, restaurants, hotels, domestic e-commerce websites, always include TVA, so there is nothing to be added to the price indicated when the customer comes to pay. On the other hand, prices listed for B-to-B (business to business) sales are normally indicated "hors taxe", i.e. excluding tax, since businesses will pay the tax but then reclaim it (if registered for VAT in France), or else be billed without tax in the case of cross-border sales to companies VAT registered in another European Union country. -
118 Discrétion, à
on menus usually refers to wine, which may be consumed--without limit--at the customer's discretion. -
119 Volonté (à)
at the customer's discretion. -
120 client, ente
client, customer, fare, patron
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