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  • 101 merde

    n. f.
    1. 'Shit', 'crap', excrement.
    2. Une merde (of person): A 'turd', a despicable character.
    3. 'Crap', rubbish, useless stuff. Qu'est-ce que vous voulez que je foute avec toute cette merde?! What do you expect me to do with all this Junk?!
    4. Ne pas se prendre pour de la merde: To think the world of oneself.
    5. Semer la merde: To get everyone in a panic.
    6. Etre dans la merde ( jusqu'au cou): To 'be in the soup', to 'be (deep) in it', to be in a (right old) fix.
    7. Traîner quelqu'un dans la merde: To resort to smear tactics.
    8. Merde alors! This expletive is only translatable in its spoken context. It is very much a case of who says what; on certain lips, it can be jocular and near-meaningless, on others, near-blasphemous.
      a To tell someone to 'get knotted', to tell someone where he can go (i.e. to hell!).
      b To wish someone luck. (It is interesting to note that coming in contact with excrement, i.e. walking in animal faeces, is deemed in France to bring luck, probably a consolation for having soiled one's shoes! Likewise, wishing someone merde is considered as a good luck omen, the ultimate being to wish someone Merde puissance treize: Good luck to the power of thirteen.)
    10. Oui ou merde?! For God's sake, make your mind up!
    11. Faire sa merde: To 'strut about', to act important.
    12. (Typographers' slang): Printers' ink.
    13. (Aviation slang): 'Pea-soup', thick mantle of fog.
    14. (Drugs): 'Hash', hashish.
    15. Piquer une merde (sch.): To get 0/20.

    Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French > merde

  • 102 mouchoir

    n. m.
    1. Arriver dans un mouchoir (Cycling and horse-racing slang): To make it a close finish, to arrive grouped at the tape.
    2. Mets ça dans ta poche avec ton mouchoir par-dessus! (joc. & iron.): Put that in your pipe and smoke it! — It's a case of take it or leave it!

    Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French > mouchoir

  • 103 taule

    n. f.
    1. 'Nick', 'clink', jail. Etre en taule (also: faire de la taule): To 'do bird', to do time.
    2. La grande taule: Police headquarters in a major city.
    3. Ma taule, ta taule, sa taule: My, your, his home/house. Bon, je rentre à la taule! Well, I'll be off home then! (The fact that prison and home are referred to, in this case, by the same word could be more than coincidental.)

    Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French > taule

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