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121 matelas
n. m. Packed wallet, one filled with a wad of notes. Avoir les matelas: To be 'loaded', to be 'rolling in it', to be extremely rich. -
122 mort
I.n. m. Faire le mort: To 'lie low' in order to avoid reprisals. (In the game of bridge, the expression means 'to play dummy'.)II.adj.1. C'est mort! (of project, undertaking): It's had it! — It's all over! (The expression c'est mon et enterré: It's dead and buried, implies more the 'long past, long forgotten' nature of the event.)2. Encore une de morte! (Boozers' slang): Another dead man! — Another empty bottle!III.A mort (adv. exp.): Extremely, to the extreme. Elle m'en veut a mort! She hates my bloody guts! -
123 nerf
n. m.1. Avoir les nerfs à cran (also: avoir lei nerfs en boule or en pelote): To be 'all on edge', to be extremely tense. Tout ça m'a mis les nerfs a cran: This whole business has made me really uptight.2. Porter sur les nerfs à quelqu'un: To 'get on someone's wick', to irritate and make angry. Tu commences à me porter sur les nerfs! I'm getting rather tired of you!3. Y mettre du nerf: To 'put some vim into it', to get some zest into whatever one is doing. (This expression is practically always found in the second person singular or plural of the imperative. Mets-y du nerf, bon sang! For Pete's sake, get a move on!)4. Le nerf de la guerre: 'Loot', 'brass', money (literally what makes war-mongering financially possible).5. Ne pas avoir un nerf: To be 'skint', to be penniless. (Unlike the previous entry for this word, the reference is to 'argent monnayé', i.e. real money in notes and coins, and the word is pronounced nerffe.) -
124 paquet
n. m.1. Faire ses paquets: To pack up and leave. On lui a dit de faire ses paquets, comme ça sans le prévenir: Out of the blue, he heard he'd got the sack.2. Avoir son paquet: To be 'blotto', to be 'pissed', to be drunk.a To get 'bashed-up', 'pitched into', to get beaten up.b To 'get a rollicking', to be severely told off. (The expression lâcher son paquet à quelqu'un, like the above, has two meanings:a To 'lam into someone', to let fists fly.b To 'give someone a piece of one's mind', to tell someone in no uncertain manner what one thinks of him/her.)4. Lâcher le paquet: To 'spill the beans', to let out a secret inadvertently.5. Mettre le paquet: To make an all-out effort in order to achieve something. (This expression originally belonged to the language of the racing cyclist, but with time and a growing interest in this sport, it has become more widespread in its use.) Si tu veux réussir dans la vie, faut mettre le paquet! Sitting on your backside won't get you anywhere in life!a To 'chance it', to take quite a risk. (In racing and gambling circles, the meaning is very literal in that the punter is staking a 'bundle'.)b To 'go the whole hog', to go 'all the way', to make a no-holds-barred effort to achieve something.7. Etre un paquet de nerfs: To be 'a bundle of nerves', to be extremely tense and nervous.8. Faire dégringoler (also: descendre) le paquet: To induce an abortion, to act in a totally unmedical way to terminate a pregnancy.9. Etre fichu comme un paquet de linge sale (usually of woman): To look a proper sight (literally to be dressed like a bundle of old clothes. Un paquet is often encountered as meaning a frump, an uninspiring and badly-dressed female).10. Le paquet (Rugby): The pack. -
125 rudement
adv. 'Awfully', extremely, very. Il fait rudement froid! It's real brass- monkey weather! -
126 salement
adv. Awfully, extremely, very. Ce qu'il nous a fait manger était salement bon! The grub he gave us wasn't half good! (The colloquiality of this adverb stems from its antiphrastic use.) -
127 tartine
n. f.1. Lengthy and boring account, verbal orotherwise. Ses rapports, il faut se les farcir, quelles tartines! You really need a couple of hours to get through one of his boring reports! En faire une tartine: To waffle about something.2. En connaître une tartine: To know a hell of a lot about something, to be extremely well informed on a subject. -
128 tenir
I.v. trans.1. En tenir une:a (also: tenir une sacrée cuite): To be 'pissed to the eyeballs', to be roaring drunk.b (also: en tenir une couche): To be 'as thick as two short planks', to be extremely stupid.2. En tenir pour quelqu'un: To be 'spoony on', to be infatuated with someone.3. Tiens-toi bien! (also: tenez-vous bien!; joc. & iron.): Just listen to this! — (The implication is that the person addressed has to brace himself for the news.)II.v. intrans. Ça tient au corps! (of food): It certainly fills you up! (This expression usually refers to stodge-like edibles.)
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