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81 noite
n. f. Night. (This word is a corruption of the English 'night' and can also be pronounced à la française.) -
82 œil
n. m.1. Avoir quelqu'un a l'œil: To keep a close eye on someone. Je veux que vous m'ayez ce lascar à l'œil! Don't let that bugger out of your sight!2. Avoir quelqu'un dans l'œil (Racing and cycling slang): To see a fellow competitor forge ahead.3. L'avoir dans l'œil (fig.): To have been 'conned', 'diddled', to have been duped.4. Risquer un œil: To 'take a peep', to glance furtively at something.5. Se rincer l'œil: To 'feast one's eyes', to get a salacious eyeful.6. Pisser de l'œil (often of woman): To 'have the weepies', to 'turn on the waterworks', to cry.7. Ne dormir que d'un œil: To take a wary 'forty winks', to drift into a state of superficial sleep because danger is lurking.8. Ouvrir l'œil et le bon: To 'keep one's weather eye open', to keep a sharp lookout.9. Monter un œil à quelqu'un: To 'give someone a shiner', a black eye.10. Avoir un œil qui dit merde à l'autre (joc.): To have a pronounced squint (also: avoir les yeux qui se croisent les bras).11. Tourner de l'œil: To 'pass out', to faint.12. Etre frais comme l'œil (of person): To be (and look) as fresh as a daisy.13. Obéir au doigt et à l'œil'. To be hyperobedient (literally to jump to attention at the quiver of an eyebrow).14. Faire un œil de crapaud mort d'amour. To look 'spoony', to have a lovesick expression on one's face.a To make a deep impression on someone.b To 'click' with someone, to take someone's fancy.16. S'en battre l'œil: 'Not to care a rap about something', to be totally unconcerned.17. Mon œil! You must be joking! (This ironical interjection is usually accompanied by the pulling down with the index finger of the lower eyelid. This 'bodyspeak' gesture emphasizes the 'I'm not as gullible as you think' quality of the remark.)18. L'œil du bidet ( pol): 'Dick', private eye. (This pejorative appellation for a private detective reflects explicitly the snooping that constitutes a fair proportion of his business.)19. L'œil de bronze: The anus, the anal sphincter (where sodomous intercourse is concerned). -
83 pataugas
n. m. pl. (Pronounced pataugasse): 'Clodhoppers', 'beetle-crushers', heavy rubber-soled shoes. (This is another case of a trade-name becoming generic; Pataugas manufacture shoes for farmers and hunting sportsmen.) -
84 pauvre
adj. intensifier.1. Pauvre con! You bloody idiot! Pauvre petit! (iron.): Who's an unlucky boy then!?2. La pauvre! (Pronounced povre.) This Provence expression is usually uttered when the news of a husband's unfaithfulness is being discussed by other women. Whereas the converse brings knowing smiles to the mauvaises langues, the cuckolded woman is an object of pity. (See cocu.) -
85 pot
n. m.1. 'Arse', 'bum', behind. (Few expressions containing the word pot have literal meanings. Most, like se manier le pot: to 'put one's skates on', to hurry up and en avoir plein le pot: to be fed-up, are figurative derivations.)2. Luck, good fortune. Avoir un sacré pot: To have the luck of the devil. Un coup de pot: A lucky break. Manque de pot! Hard cheese! — Hard luck! (There is a strange correlation between sodomy as in se faire casser le pot and good fortune, which would suggest as with cocu (see that word) that sexual favours and good luck are closely intertwined.)3. Drink, alcoholic beverage. (Although some lexicographers describe the drink as being a 'short', the very nature of the straight meaning of the word suggests it is a long drink, i.e. wine or beer. Prendre un pot avec quelqu'un: To have a jar with someone.)4. (Gambling slang): 'Pot', kitty, pool of money staked at cards, etc.5. Faire son pot: To 'make one's pile', to amass a tidy sum of money.6. Payer les pots cassés: To 'carry the can', to pay the consequences (often literally, on the financial plane).8. Pot de yaourt (joc.): Bubble- car. (In the 50s, the most popular bubble-car in France was manufactured by Isetta. These vehicles with their large glass area and striking white colour quickly earned this nickname.)9. Etre sourd comme un pot: To be as deaf as a post.10. Tourner autour du pot: To 'beat about the bush', to tackle a problem or a situation in a dilly-dally manner.11. Etre bête comme un pot: To be 'as thick as two short planks', to be as dumb as they come.12. Ne pas bousculer le pot de fleurs: To 'keep things on an even keel', to 'avoid upsetting the apple-cart', to refrain from causing trouble.13. Ne t'occupe pas du pot! Leave it to me! — Let me worry about it!14. Pot aux roses: Sensitive secret. Découvrir le pot aux roses: To stumble on a bit of scandal. (Because of a possible hiatus, the 't' in pot is pronounced as a liaison in colloquial contexts.) -
86 raper
n. m. (Pronounced rapère): Bicyclemounted policeman (also: hirondelle). -
87 verlen
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88 Vévé
Proper name. Une vévé: A Volkswagen car. (The strange phonetics of this word can be explained by the fact that the VW initials do not exactly roll off the tongue in French where W is pronounced 'double-v'.) -
89 zut
interj.1. Drat! — Darn! — Blast! Zut alors! Damn and blast! (This mildest of French interjections likely to be encountered in colloquial speech lives on happily because of its innocuou!!!2. Avoir un œil qui dit zut à l'autre (joc.): To have a pronounced squint (also: avoir un œil qui dit merde à l'autre). -
90 Bardot, Brigitte
The most famous French film actress of the 1950s and 1960s. Bardot was the symbol of the sexual emancipation of the period, and the most famous French woman of her generation. Known as BB (pronounced Bébé - meaning Baby), she was for many years the incarnation of the seductive French woman, and appeared in some fifty films, before retiring from the screen in 1973. Since then, she has become a militant animal-rights activist, founding the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in 1986. More recently, she has lost a certain amount of popular respect, on acount of her sympathy for a number of extreme right-wing causes. Nevertheless, in Febrary 2008, in an international survey, she was voted the second most beautiful woman in the world, after Catherine Zeta Jones.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Bardot, Brigitte
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91 Maîtrise
Old type of masters degree, generally obtained following the successful completion of four years of higher education. Following reform of the higher education system in France in the early 2000s, and adoption of the European "Bologna" system, the maîtrise was phased out, and replaced by a new five-year master's qualification, known as the "Master" (pronounced Mast-air).Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Maîtrise
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92 RMI
Pronounced Air-em-ee. Welfare benefit paid to those, aged over 25, who have no right to any other source of income (no unemployment benefit). In 2007, there were about 1.3 million recipients of this benefit in France. In January 2008, it was worth 448 Euros a month for a single person. The RMI was replaced in July 2009 by the RSA.
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