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1 dîner-spectacle
[dinespɛktakl] ( pluriel dîners-spectacles) nom masculin -
2 paille
n. f.1. Tirer à la courte paille: To draw straws (in order to decide who will be lumbered with an unpleasant task).2. Etre sur la paille: To be 'down on one's uppers', to be penniless. Mettre quelqu'un sur la paille: To drive someone out of business.3. Feu de paille: 'Flash in the pan', promising start eventually tailing ofif into failure.4. Homme de paille: 'Puppet', front-man who is more often than not made to 'carry the can' when the undertaking he manages, runs into difficulties.5. Le chapeau de paille: Deportation to the penal colony of French Guiana. (According to Auguste le Breton it is a direct reference to the hat worn by the 'Papillon-like' convicts during their term of hard-labour.)a To get down to some hard graft, to put in some hard work.b (of musicians): To serenade diners from table to table in a restaurant.7. Allumer la paille (pol.): To 'swoop', to deploy men in force.8. Une paille (iron.): A mere trifle. Il s'est payé une tire pour vingt briques, une paille! That twenty-grand car to him is just a drop in the ocean!9. Il y en a pour une paille! We're in for quite a long wait! (This expression can also be found as Il y en a pour une paye implying that the wait can last until next payday.)10. Faire des pailles: To be unfaithful to one's spouse (also: faire des pailhns or faire des traits).
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