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101 rincée
n. f.1. Sudden downpour of rain. On a pris une de ces rincées! We got soaked to the skin!2. 'Pasting', thrashing, volley of blows. Quand il est rentré à trois heures du mat', bobonne lui a filé une de ces rincées! His missus gave him the old rolling-pin treatment when he traipsed home at 3 a.m.! -
102 rouler
I.v. trans.1. To beat at sport (often through greater tactical skill than sheer strength).2. To 'con', to 'diddle', to swindle. Se faire rouler: To get done.3. La rouler: To 'burn the candle at both ends', to lead a fast and furious life.4. Les rouler: To 'roll the bones', to throw the dice.5. Se les rouler: To 'twiddle one's thumbs', to while away the time doing nothing.6. En rouler une: To (hand-) roll a cigarette.7. Rouler un patin: To give a 'smackeroo', to exchange a 'French kiss'.II.v. intrans.1. To 'prattle on', to talk nonstop with little intellectual effort.2. Rouler sur l'or: To be 'rolling in it', to be very wealthy.3. Rouler des miches: To walk with a wiggle. (The expression is often used where the undulating and effeminate walk of homosexuals is concerned.)4. Ça roule!a You're on! — Great! —That's O.K. by me!b (Waiters' slang): Coming up! (In the hustle and bustle between the kitchen and the dining area, this expression can often be heard and is an acknowledgement that a menu item is being prepared.) -
103 rouletabille
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104 sac
n. m.1. 'Belly', stomach. S'en mettre plein le sac: To 'stuff one's face', to have a hearty meal.2. Unit of ten francs or ten-franc note. (Prior to the 1958 remonetization, the amount was 1000 francs. According to certain sources inflation in the mid-yos resulted in an upgrading of the sac to 100 nouveaux francs.)3. Etre au sac (also: avoir le sac): To be 'stinking rich', to be 'rolling in it', to be very wealthy. (Expressions such as épouser un sac: to marry a wealthy girl, and terms like gros sac: wealthy so-and-so, confirm the money image of this meaning of the word.)4. Faire son sac: To 'make one's pile', to amass a fortune.5. L'affaire est dans le sac!a It's in the bag! — It's a dead-cert! — It's a sure thing!b (iron.): She's preggers! — She is pregnant.6. Avoir son sac: To 'have had a skinful', to be drunk. (The boozing image is further illustrated in the term sac à vin: 'wino', dipsomaniac.)a (of person): To be 'dressed like a guy', to be frumpily attired.b (of work, plans, etc.): To be in a right old mcss, in total disarray.8. Vider son Sac: To 'get something off one's chest', to speak onc's mind.9. Mettez ça dans votre sac!a Keep it under your hat! — Keep this to yourself! — Don't mention this to anyone!b Put that in your pipe and smoke it! — Accept that fact if you can! (There's littlc else you can do!)10. Travailler le sac (Boxing): To have a workout with the punchbag.11. Mettre dans le meme sac (fig.): To 'tar with the same brush', to 'lump together', to judge in the same manner.12. Avoir la tête dans le sac: To be completely out of funds, to be near to financial ruin.14. Sac à malice(s): 'Tricky customer', cunning so- and-so (character who always seems to have something left in his bag of tricks).15. Sac d'embrouilles: Inextricably jumbled issue or situation (literally a tangled web. Also: sac de næuds).16. Sac à viande (joc.): Sleeping-bag.17. Sac d'os: 'Bag of bones', skinny person. Quel sac d'os! I've seen more meat on a butcher's pencil! -
105 stores
n. m. pl. Baisser les stores: To 'get some shuteye', to take a nap. (The image here is of a shop rolling down the steel shutters.) -
106 tomber
I.v. trans.1. To 'floor', to knock down.2. To 'bowl over', to astound.3. To woo, to win over. (With this meaning, the verb can refer to sexual prowess. Il l'a tombée fastoche! He scored with her easy!)4. Tomber la veste:a To take one's jacket off (because of the hot weather, exertion, etc.).b (fig.): To 'get stuck in', to participate in some hard graft. (The image here is of rolling up one's sleeves in order to 'muck in' with one's minions. Il est pas fier lui, notre patron, il a tombé la veste pour nous aider! He's no boardroom smoothie, our boss, he came and grafted with us!)II.v. intrans.1. To get 'nicked', 'picked up', to be arrested.2. To get sentenced.3. Laisser tomber (of item of conversation): To 'drop it', to change topic.a To 'let someone down', to fail to support someone in his hour of need.b To 'ditch' someone, to jettison someone when he or she is of no further use.5. Qu'est-ce qu'il tombe! It ain't half chucking it down! — It's pouring buckets!6. Tomber sur quelqu'un: To come down on someone (like a ton of bricks), to reproach someone violently.7. Tomber sur un bec: To 'hit a snag', to suffer a setback.8. Tomber quelque part: To 'land', to end up somewhere. On est tombé dans un patelin perdu! We finished up in some God- forsaken place!9. Je ne sais pas d'où il est tombé! I don't know where he sprang from! — He's a total stranger as far as I'm concerned. 10 Tomber pile: To arrive in the nick of time. -
107 vache
I.n. f.1. (pej.): 'Copper', policeman. Les vaches: 'The fuzz'. (This seemingly injurious appellation, as well as the expression Mort aux vaches!, has nothing to do with the bovine species. Mort aux vaches! is said to have originated after 1870 in occupied AlsaceLorraine where the German military police force, die Wache (the watch), focused discontent among the occupied, and the jeer was originally Mort à la Wache!)2. (also: peau de vache): 'Pig of a character', very awkward so-and-so.3. Coup de pied en vache (fig.): Dirty trick, sly and malicious act.4. Vache à lait: 'Sucker', wealthy dupe, the kind of rich gullible fool who keeps cadgers and hangers-on in food and money.5. Vache laitière (pej.): 'Big fat biddy' (the kind of 'silly moo' whose ample mammaries are her dominant feature).6. Etre plein comme une vache: To be 'pissed to the eye-balls', to be rolling drunk.7. Il pleut comme vache qui pisse! It's raining cats and dogs!8. Bouffer de la vache enragée: To have to rough it, to go through a tough period in life. (The image here is of the impoverished individual whose meat rations, when he can afford them, are of the 'shoe-leather' variety.)9. Oh, la vache! Damn and blast! — Drat! (This exclamation and its English equivalents are equally innocuous and dated.)10. Vache de¼! This colloquial intensifier can either be damning as in Quel vache de temps! What bloody (awful) weather! or loaded with admiration as in C'est un vache de mec! He's one hell of a guy!11. La croix des vaches: Punishment inflicted by old-time pimps on recalcitrant prostitutes or by members of the underworld on a traitor. These deep facial cuts in the shape of a cross made with a razor blade, were encouraged to fester and leave a scar by the application of a chemical.II.adj.1. (of person): Weak, all limp. Je me sens tout vache aujourd'hui! I'm really feeling weak at the knees today!2. (of person): 'Beastly', 'mean', nasty. Son père est drôlement vache avec lui, côté discipline! His father's a right Colonel Blimp! Sois pas vache, prête-moi des sous! Come on, be a pal, lend us some money! Tu es vraiment vache, ces temps-ci! You're a right swine these days!3. (of problem, poser): 'Stinking difficult', awkward and loaded with (intentional) snags. Ses questions d'examen sont toujours vaches! The papers he sets are right stinkers!4. Un vache¼, une vache ¼: An incredible¼(When the adjective precedes the noun, it acts as an intensifier nearly always with a positive connotation. Une vache nana: A smashing bird. Il m'est arrivé une vache histoire! You won't believe what happened to me!)5. Amour vache: Tempestuous sort of love affair (the kind where the partners seem to be exchanging as many blows as kisses). -
108 Congrès d'Epernay
Defining congress, 1971, in the life of the French Socialist party. It was at this congress that the Mitterrand faction took control of the newly formed Socialist party, setting the ball rolling for the party's rise towards government.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Congrès d'Epernay
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109 Metro, the Paris
First opened in 1900, the Paris Metro (or Métropolitain) is the city's subway system or underground railway system. Most of the network within central Paris is underground, though there are some aerial sections, notably on routes 2 and 6. It is linked with the city's suburban rapid transit system, the RER. The Paris Metro is Europe's second most-used urban subway system after the Moscow underground. Most routes use standard gauge steel rail tracks, though five of the routes operate with rubber-tyred rolling stock, running on concrete tracks. These are considerably quieter than the traditional trains used on other routes. The most recent route, line 14, opened in 1998 and known as the "Météor", uses driverless trains.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Metro, the Paris
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110 Mistral
1) The most famous of the winds to blow over France, the Mistral is the north wind that regularly blows down the Rhone valley, south of Lyon, usually bringing cold weather with clear skies to Provence. The Mistral is usually due either to northwest winds coming in off the Atlantic, or cold winds coming over from Central Europe. See Climate and weather.2) Named after the wind, the luxurious express train that used to run daily from 1950 to 1982 between Paris and Nice. The train was first class only, had its own special rolling-stock, and included such sophistications as hostesses, a hardressing salon, and a secretarial service. The train was withdrawn in 1982, following the introduction of TGV services to Nice.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Mistral
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