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41 évaporer
s'évaporer evapɔʀe verbe pronominal to evaporate; (colloq) fig to vanish* * *[evapɔre] verbe transitif————————s'évaporer verbe pronominal intransitif1. [liquide] to evaporate3. (familier) [disparaître] to vanish (into thin air)je me suis retourné et hop, il s'était évaporé! I turned round and he'd gone, just like that! -
42 gueule
n. f.I.(A) General meaning: mouth.a To have a loud and booming voice.b To be 'foul-mouthed', to constantly use coarse language.2. Un coup de gueule: An angry verbal outburst. Leur vie est faite de coups de gueule: Their life is just one perpetual slanging match.3. Ta gueule! Shut your cakehole! — Shut up! (also: la ferme!).4. Avoir la gueule de bois: To 'have a hangover', to suffer the after-effects of a drinking bout.5. Etre une fine gueule: To be something of a gourmet.6. Etre porté sur la gueule: To be in the habit of over- indulging where food is concerned.II.(B) General meaning: face.a To look 'down in the mouth', to look ill.b To 'have an ugly mush', to be afflicted with an ugly face. Avoir une gueule à coucher dehors: To have a face like the back of a bus (literally to have features that would even get you turned away from a hostel for down-and-outs).2. Faire la gueule: To sulk, to act sullen and disapproving. Quand il est sorti, il poussait une de ces gueules: You should have seen the way he was scowling when he came out of the office.3. Se fendre la gueule: To 'split one's sides laughing', to have a jolly good laugh (also: se fendre le paraptuie).4. Se payer la gueule de quelqu'un: To 'take the mickey', to poke fun at someone.5. Casser la gueule à quelqu'un: To 'push someone's face in', to bash someone up.a (lit.): To fall flat on one's face, to fall to the ground.b (fig.): To 'come a cropper', to 'come unstuck', to suffer a major setback.7. Les Gueules Cassées: War veterans whose faces were disfigured in the war. (The appellation has become very familiar through a charity known by that name and indirectly sponsored by the Loterie Nationale.)III.(C) General meaning: looks, appearance.1. Avoir de la gueule (not necessarily of person): To look good. C'était un spectacle qui avait vraiment de la gueule: As a show it really stood out. C'est une fille qui a de la gueule: She really has what it takes! — There's a good-looking girl!2. Ça prend une sale gueule: Things are looking grim— Matters are taking a turn for the worse. -
43 Verlan
popular youth slang, or argot, formed by reversing the syllables of a word. For example, problème in Verlan is blèmepro. Verlan is itself a reverse-syllable word, which becomes l'envers (meaning backwards) when turned round. Streetwise urban youth can sometimes converse fluently using verlan for many of the key words, making their argot incomprehensible to the non-initiatied.Versailles, Château de Magnificent royal château, built by Louis XIV, just to the south west of Paris.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Verlan
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