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81 goutte
n. f.1. 'Nip', tot, drink of strong alcohol. (The expression boire la goutte can either mean to have a 'short' or to drown.)2. Se noyer dans une goutte d'eau: To 'make a mountain out of a molehill', to flap needlessly.3. Avoir les fesses en gouttes d'huile: To have a saggy bum. -
82 heure
n. f.1. L'heure H: The moment of decision.2. A l'heure tapante: 'On the dot', 'dead on time', punctually.3. Je ne te (also: je ne vous) demande pas l'heure qu'il est! (iron.): Mind your own bloody business! — Keep your questions to yourself!4. Avant l'heure, c'est pas l'heure; après l'heure, c'est plus l'heure! (iron.): Being early is no good either, you have to be on time! (This popular catchphrase is often uttered in a jocular context.) -
83 laziloflfe
n. m. Venereal disease. (The word can refer either to syphilis or gonorrhoea.) -
84 lessiver
v. trans.1. To 'flog', to sell off cheaply.2. Tout lessiver. To 'spend, spend, spend', to blow the lot, to spend all one's money in a frantic spree.3. Se faire lessiver: To lose all one's money (either in a financial venture or at gambling). -
85 montgolfière
n. f.1. 'Nympho', nymphomaniac.2. (pl.): 'Bubbies', 'bristols', full and self-supporting breasts. (The montgolfiére, the invention of the Montgolfier brothers, was one of the first hot-air balloons.)3. (pl.): 'Balls', 'bollocks', testicles. (The reference to montgolfières in respect of testicles is, more often than not, made in a jocular vein, implying either an over-sexed brain or advanced V.D.) -
86 mouron
n. m.1. Hair (usually tufts of hair).3. C'est pas du mouron pour ton serin! (Ironical catch phrase): This isn't really for you! (This expression is ambivalent in that the ancillary can either be 'lt's not good enough for you' or 'You don't deserve it'.) -
87 moutard
n. m. ( Slightly pej.): 'Brat', 'kid', infant. (Because it is a masculine noun, moutard generally refers to a young boy. In the plural, however, it refers indifferently to either sex. Il faut toujours qu'elle vienne avec ses moutards! She always comes round with her bloody kids!) -
88 obligations
n. f. pl. Etre dégagé des (also: de ses) obligations militaires: To be within the law where National Service is concerned. (Either to have served one's time as a soldier or received an exemption.) -
89 Parisien
Proper name. Le Parisien: According to whether the context is pre- or post-World War II, this title refers to either Le Petit Parisien or Le Parisien Libéré, both popular and masscirculation newspapers. -
90 parler
v. intrans.1. To 'squeal', to 'spill the beans', to confess and give the game away. Ils l'ont fait parler sans trop de difficulté: He sang like a bird, all he needed was a bit of gentle persuasion!2. Tu parles de¼! (iron.): Talk about¼! Tu parles d'une pagaille! You should have seen that mess! Vous parlez d'une histoire! What a scandal!3. Tu parles Charles! According to context, this jocular and ironic catch phrase can either mean 'You're telling me!'—'I should jolly well think so!' or 'You must be joking!'— 'What do you take me for?!' -
91 pointe
n. f.1. 'Chiv', blade, knife.3. Avoir sa pointe: To have had 'one over the eight', to be 'tipsy', to be slightly drunk.a (of motor vehicle): To 'burn rubber', to spurt ahead.b To move along niftily (either to escape or to join someone).5. Heure de pointe: Peak-time (when trading, traffic, etc. is at its busiest). -
92 rade
I.n. m.1. Bar (in pub or café). Prendre un verre au rade: To have a drink at the bar.2. (Prostitutes' slang): Pavement. ( Faire le rade can have two meanings, either to solicit perched on a bar stool, or more prosaically to 'pound the beat'.)II.n. f. Etre en rade: To be 'stranded', to be left to cope on one's own. Tomber en rade:a (of motorist): To break down.b (fig., of plans, projects, etc.): To 'grind to a halt', to come to nothing. (These expressions make colloquial use of the French word for harbour; a maritime-flavoured translation of être laissé en rade could be 'to be left high and dry'—like a ship at low tide.) -
93 ramolli
I.n. m.1. Doddering old fogey.2. Halfwit, near-imbecile. (The full expression un ramolli du bulbe, referring either to a doddering geriatric or a near- idiotic person, reveals that it is the brain that has gone soft.)II.adj.1. 'Shagged', worn-out, exhausted.2. Doddering.3. Half-witted. -
94 roudoudou
n. m. Children's confection. (This can either be barley sugar in a small non-edible container or a sticky concoction consisting of sugar and liquorice.) -
95 rouge
n. m.1. Du rouge: Red wine. Vous prendrez bien un petit rouge? How about a glass of red wine? Gros rouge: 'Plonk', cheap and rough red wine. (The appellation du gros rouge qui tache gives a good idea of the coarse nature of this 'vino'.)2. 'Commie', 'Red', Communist. Les rouges, c'est son obsession, il en voit partout! He seems obsessed with 'Reds under the bed' ideas!3. Mettre le rouge: To 'kick up some aggro', to create a disturbance (usually through sheer physical violence. The expression le rouge est mis belongs either to the language of horseracing where it indicates that no more oncourse betting is possible, or to the world of T.V. and film productions where it means that a scene is being shot in a studio). -
96 saucisson
n. m.1. (Musicians' slang): Tune or song of little merit (literally one that seems to have come into existence like sausages off a conveyor-belt).2. 'Biddy', rather unattractive woman (one whose figure is as remarkable as that of a sausage. Etre ficelée comme un saucisson can either mean to be bulging in the wrong places, or to be trussed up like a saucisson sec).3. (pol.): 'Stinker', difficult case (one that will take a lot of unravelling). -
97 tinée
n. f. Une tinée de: 'Oodles', a great number of. (The expression can refer either to people or objects.) -
98 tirer
I.v. trans.1. To 'nick', to 'pinch', to steal (also: voler à la tire).2. To spend time (and quite a lengthy period) doing something unpleasant. Encore quinze jours à tirer et on part en vacances! Another fortnight's grind and it's 'holidays here we come!' Il a tiré cinq piges de dur: He did five years' porridge.3. En voilà une autre de tirée! (of day, month or year): And that's another one gone!4. Tirer la couverture à soi: To get the most of something for oneself (either kudos or worldly goods).5. Tirer l'échelle: To 'call it a day', to have to give up. Après une connerie comme ça, il n'y a plus qu'à tirer l'échelle! After a boob of that magnitude, there doesn't seem to be any point in going any further! (also: tirer la ficelle).6. Tirer la langue: To be near exhaustion (literally to have one's tongue lolling out through sheer fatigue).7. Tirer les vers du nez à quelqu'un: To 'pump' someone, to winkle information out of someone.8. Tirer un coup: To 'have a bang', to 'have it off', to have coition.9. Tirer un fil (of man): To 'splash one's boots', to 'have a pee', to urinate.II.v. intrans.1. To 'dip', to steal.2. Tirer au cul (also: tirer au flanc or au renard): To 'dodge a chore', to steer clear of hard work.3. Tirer sur la ficelle: To 'go it a bit strong', to exaggerate. (There is a possible parallel with the English 'pull the other one!' retort.)III.v. trans. reflex.1. To 'bugger off', to 'slope off', to go away. Bon, il faut que je me tire, demain je bosse de bonne heure! I'll have to drift, I'm on mornings tomorrow!2. Se tirer d'épaisseur: To get out of 'stuck', to get out of trouble.a To 'have a punch-up', to have a fight.b To have a flaming row.4. Ça se tire! We can see the light at the end of the tunnel! — We're nearing the end! (The expression is usually used when referring to times one is not enjoying.) -
99 tuyau
n. m.1. 'Tip', 'bit of info', inside information. Il m'a filé un tuyau de première pour la 3ème à Longchamp: He gave me a red-hot tip for the 3.30 race.2. Pantalon en tuyau de poêle: 'Drainpipe' trousers (those tight leg-hugging trousers that spelled the end of ironed creases).a Any rather unconventional couple (either because of their disorientated approach to everyday life or because they believe in free-love).b The world of male homosexuality. -
100 vache
I.n. f.1. (pej.): 'Copper', policeman. Les vaches: 'The fuzz'. (This seemingly injurious appellation, as well as the expression Mort aux vaches!, has nothing to do with the bovine species. Mort aux vaches! is said to have originated after 1870 in occupied AlsaceLorraine where the German military police force, die Wache (the watch), focused discontent among the occupied, and the jeer was originally Mort à la Wache!)2. (also: peau de vache): 'Pig of a character', very awkward so-and-so.3. Coup de pied en vache (fig.): Dirty trick, sly and malicious act.4. Vache à lait: 'Sucker', wealthy dupe, the kind of rich gullible fool who keeps cadgers and hangers-on in food and money.5. Vache laitière (pej.): 'Big fat biddy' (the kind of 'silly moo' whose ample mammaries are her dominant feature).6. Etre plein comme une vache: To be 'pissed to the eye-balls', to be rolling drunk.7. Il pleut comme vache qui pisse! It's raining cats and dogs!8. Bouffer de la vache enragée: To have to rough it, to go through a tough period in life. (The image here is of the impoverished individual whose meat rations, when he can afford them, are of the 'shoe-leather' variety.)9. Oh, la vache! Damn and blast! — Drat! (This exclamation and its English equivalents are equally innocuous and dated.)10. Vache de¼! This colloquial intensifier can either be damning as in Quel vache de temps! What bloody (awful) weather! or loaded with admiration as in C'est un vache de mec! He's one hell of a guy!11. La croix des vaches: Punishment inflicted by old-time pimps on recalcitrant prostitutes or by members of the underworld on a traitor. These deep facial cuts in the shape of a cross made with a razor blade, were encouraged to fester and leave a scar by the application of a chemical.II.adj.1. (of person): Weak, all limp. Je me sens tout vache aujourd'hui! I'm really feeling weak at the knees today!2. (of person): 'Beastly', 'mean', nasty. Son père est drôlement vache avec lui, côté discipline! His father's a right Colonel Blimp! Sois pas vache, prête-moi des sous! Come on, be a pal, lend us some money! Tu es vraiment vache, ces temps-ci! You're a right swine these days!3. (of problem, poser): 'Stinking difficult', awkward and loaded with (intentional) snags. Ses questions d'examen sont toujours vaches! The papers he sets are right stinkers!4. Un vache¼, une vache ¼: An incredible¼(When the adjective precedes the noun, it acts as an intensifier nearly always with a positive connotation. Une vache nana: A smashing bird. Il m'est arrivé une vache histoire! You won't believe what happened to me!)5. Amour vache: Tempestuous sort of love affair (the kind where the partners seem to be exchanging as many blows as kisses).
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