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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.)
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