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121 pet
n. m.1. Fart. Lâcher un pet: To 'let one rip', to break wind.2. Danger, risk, peril. En '42 il y avait du pet à sortir sans ausweis: If Jerry caught you without I.D. on the streets, during the war, you were in trouble.3. 'Row', disturbance. Faire du pet: To kick up a fuss. Flurer le pet à quelqu'un: To pick a quarrel with someone.4. Faire le pet: To be on the look-out (where danger is concerned), to be on watch.5. (interj.): Pet! Look out!-Careful, someone's coming!6. Porter le pet:a To complain.b To lay a charge against someone.a To 'feel out of sorts', to be unwell.b To be awkward and uncooperative.8. Ça ne vaut pas un pet de lapin! It's not worth a brass farthing! — It's worthless! -
122 piger
v. trans.1. To 'twig', to 'grasp', to understand. Pour sûr, à la longue il a pigé tout ton machin: It was a dead-cert he'd cotton on to what you were doing.2. To 'take a butchers', to 'take a shufty', to look at. Pige-moi un peu la gueule qu'elle fait! Look at the face she's pulling!3. (of disease): To 'cop', to 'go down with', to catch. Il a pigé une bléno maison: He caught a right dose of clap.4. To 'cop', to get sentenced to a term of imprisonment. Avec leurs pédigrées ils vont piger le maxi: With their form, they're in line for a full plate of porridge!5. Se faire piger: To get 'nabbed', 'collared', to be arrested. -
123 pincer
v. trans.1. To 'collar', to 'buttonhole', to take someone aside (forcibly or otherwise).2. To 'nab', to arrest. On s'est fait pincer avec la came: We got caught red-handed with all the gear.3. (of disease): To 'cop', to catch.4. To 'twig', to 'catch on', to understand. Tu pinces?! Do you get it?!5. En pincer pour. To 'have a crush on', to be infatuated with. Elle en pince pour ma pomme! I definitely think she's doolally on me! -
124 piquer
I.v. trans.1. To 'jab', to inject. (The verb is only really encountered with this meaning when it refers to the 'putting to sleep' of a pet dog or cat. Elle a dû faire piquer son chien: She had to have her dog put down.)2. To stab, to knife.3. To 'cop', to catch (a disease). Il a piqué une chtouille maison! He caught a right dose of clap!4. Piquer une sale note (sch.): To get a rotten mark. (In schools and colleges, the verb piquer with reference to an assessment can sometimes have a positive connotation as with piquer un quinze sur vingt: To get a first-class mark.)a To 'skedaddle', to 'make tracks', to run away.b (fig.): To be off and away when something unpleasant has occurred.6. En piquer un: To 'have a kip', to 'take some shuteye', to steal a few minutes for a snooze (also: piquer un roupillon).7. To 'nick', to 'pinch', to steal. Elle m'a piqué tout mon fric. She filched all my dough.8. To 'nab', to 'collar', to arrest. A ce train-là, on va se faire piquer par les cognes! If we keep this up, the fuzz'll do us!9. Piquer le dix (Prison slang): To pace up and down a cell like a bear in a cage.II.v. intrans. Piquer à quelque chose:a To 'get the hang of something', to understand the workings of something.b To get 'hooked' on, to have a compulsive liking for something.III.v. trans. reflex.1. (Drugs): To 'mainline', to inject intravenously.2. Se piquer le nez: To 'get pickled', to get drunk. (The expression reflects the habitual nature of the act whereby the subject is well on the road to dipsomania.) -
125 sandwich
n. m. Etre pris en sandwich: To be 'caught between two fires', to be cornered. -
126 schtouillard
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127 tas
n. m.1. 'Ugly biddy', ungainly woman.3. Bonsoir tout le tas! Evenin' all! (Like the English, the French has a slight touch of irony.)4. Tas de ferraille: 'Heap', 'banger', decrepit motor car.5. Etre sur le tas: To be at one's job, to be at work.6. Se retrouver sur le tas: To find oneself out of work. (This expression, diametrically in contradiction with être sur le tas, conjures up the image of the 'scrap-heap of life'.)7. Sécher sur le tas: To be 'left cooling one's heels', to wait in vain.8. Prendre quelqu'un sur le tas: To catch someone red-handed. Etre fait sur le tas: To be caught in the act.a To 'lash out blindly', to hit out at the first available target.b To choose at random.c To make a wild guess.10. Piquer dans le tas: To pick freely, to choose at random.12. Une grève sur le tas: A 'sit-down' strike (occupation/take-over of factory).14. Sur le tas! 'Pronto!'— Straight away! — Immediately! -
128 Chalutier
trawler; any flat fish caught with a trawl.
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