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41 bosse
n. f.1. Avoir la bosse: To be a 'jammy so-and-so', to be very lucky.2. Avoir la bosse de ¼ To have a real gift for something. Il a la bosse du commerce: He's a born businessman.3. Avoir roulé sa bosse: To 'have been around', to have travelled a fair bit during one's life.a To have a bloody good laugh (literally to double up with laughter).b To 'stuff one's face', to have a jolly good tuck-in, to get a bellyful of food. -
42 bossu
n. m. Rire (also: rigoler) comme un bossu: To have a bloody good laugh, to be doubled up with laughter. -
43 crever
I.v. trans.1. To 'drive someone into the ground', to wear someone out. Il me crève avec toutes ses jérémiades: His constant moaning drives me round the bend.2. Crever la paillasse à quelqu'un: To 'do someone in', to commit murder.3. Ça crève les yeux: It's staring you in the face—It's blatantly obvious.II.v. intrans.1. (Cycling, motoring): To get a puncture.2. To 'snuff it', to 'croak', to die.3. Crever de faim: To starve, to be terribly hungry.4. Crever la faim (also: la mver): To lead a life of poverty. Depuis que son vieux est mort, elle la crève: Since her old man died, she's not had two ha'pennies to rub together.5. Tu peux toujours crever! To hell with you! Qu'il crève! Sod him!6. Marche ou crève! It's a case of 'do-or-die'. (This expression originally referred to the French Foreign Legion and its near-inhuman training methods.)7. Bouffer a en crever: To 'stuff one's face', to eat immoderately.8. Crever de rire: To split one's sides with laughter.III.v. trans.reflex. Se crever de boulot: To 'work oneself into an early grave', to kill oneself with work. -
44 crise
n. f.1. (abbr. crise de fou rire): Uncontrollable laughter. Quand il nous a sorti son histoire, ça a été la crise: He had us rolling in the aisles when he told us what had happened.2. Piquer une crise: To 'fly off the handle', to 'blow one's top', to fly into a temper. -
45 esclaffade
n. f. Guffaw, boisterous outburst of laughter. -
46 galerie
n. f.2. Amuser la galerie: To 'keep everyone in fits', to 'keep everyone rolling in the aisles', to have someone in fits of laughter. -
47 gondoler
v. pronom. To 'crease oneself', to double up with laughter. Qu'est-ce qu'on s'est gondolé quand on l'a vu en uniforme! We were in stitches when we saw him out of his civvies! -
48 marrer
v. pronom.1. To have a jolly good laugh. Se maner comme un bossu: To be doubled up with laughter.2. Il me fait marrer! (iron.): He must be joking, who does he think he is?! Vous me faites marrer avec vos grèves! I don't know what you're up to with all your bloody strikes! -
49 rate
n. f.1. Se dilater la rate: To 'laugh oneself silly', to split one's sides with laughter.2. Ne pas se fouler la rate: To take things easy, not to break one's back with work. -
50 rigolade
n. f.1. Laughter, merriment.2. 'Funand-games', larking about. Sans rigolade, on aurait crevé d'ennui au régiment! National Service would have been a drag without all that horsing about!3. Sexy capers. Il ne pense qu'à la rigolade! He's got sex on the brain!4. Prendre quelque chose à la rigolade: Not to take something seriously. Il n'a pas pris ça à la rigolade! He certainly didn't take it as a joke!5. Ce n'est pas de la rigolade! It's no laughing matter!6. Une vraie rigolade (of task, undertaking): Mere child's play. -
51 tordre
v. trans. reflex. (abbr. se tordre de rire): To split one's sides laughing. C'est à se tordre de le voir allumer un mégot en plein vent! The sight of him lighting a fag-end against the breeze is enough to make you crease up with laughter! -
52 rire
laugh, laughter
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