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21 affiché
past part. C'est affiché! It's a dead cert! —It's a certainty! -
22 armé
past part. Etre armé (joc.): To have 'the big stick', to have an erection. -
23 assis
past part. En rester assis: To be too stunned to answer. -
24 bâtonné
past part. Etre bâtonné (Underworld slang): To be prohibited from entering certain areas. (The legal term for this restriction is interdiction de séjour.) -
25 buriné
past part. Etre buriné par l'effort: The standard meaning is to have weathered features through excessive work but the jocularity of the expression stems from its antiphrastic use when referring to someone who doesn't do a stroke of work. -
26 calculé
past part. C'est calculé pour! This humoristic stock-in-trade expression conveys the fact that whatever technical contraption is being discussed 'works because it works'. -
27 couru
past part. C'est couru d'avance: It's a dead cert—It's a sure thing. -
28 cousu
past part. C'est cousu de fil blanc: It's blatantly apparent. (No-one could possibly be deceived by this hamfisted ploy.) -
29 enfoncé
past part. 'Licked', well and truly beaten. Enfoncés les copains, c'est moi qu'ai décroché la timbale! I wiped the floor with them and won outright! -
30 étudié
past part. C'est étudié pour (of contraption, device): That's the way it works! (Don't ask me how, but it does!) The comedian Fernand Raynaud made this expression memorable by including it in one of his famous one-man sketches. -
31 fait
past part. C'est bien fait pour lui! Serves him bloody well right! -
32 fixé
past part. Etre fixé: To know where one stands. Maintenant qu'elle est partie, vous êtes fixé: Now she's gone and left, you know how much you meant to her. -
33 flambé
past part. Etre flambé: To have been 'rumbled', to have been found out. -
34 frotté
past part. Etre frotté de: To have 'a smattering of', to have a superficial knowledge of. Pour ce qui est de la cuistance, il en est plus que frotté: Be fair! There's no denying he can cook. -
35 gate
past part. Ne pas être gàté:a To be 'short on luck', to have suffered many setbacks.b To have an ungainly appearance. (In both instances, the expression is cruelly ironic and is used to refer to an individual for whom no pity is really felt.) -
36 gazé
past part. 'Pickled', 'sozzled', drunk. -
37 indiqué
past part. C'est pas indiqué! (iron.): I don't recommend it! — It doesn't sound like a good idea! -
38 jambonné
past part. Etre bien jambonnée (of woman): To have a nice pair of legs. D'accord, elle est bien jambonnée, mais quelle gueule! Nice legs, shame about the face! -
39 logé
past part. Etre logé à la môme enseigne: To be 'in the same boat', to have common troubles with someone. -
40 maque
past part. 'Shacked-up', cohabiting. Depuis le temps qu'ils sont maqués, il aurait pu régulariser la situation: You'd have thought he'd pop the question, them living under the brush all that time.
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