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61 chou-fleur
n. m. Un chou-fleur. A cancerous growth, a malignant tumour. Manque de pot, en fin de carrière il s'est payé un chou-fleur: It was rotten luck him catching the Big Bug just as he was about to retire. -
62 cochon
I.n. m.1. 'Swine', 'sod', despicable character.2. Etre plein comme un cochon: To have 'had a skinful', to be 'pissed', to be drunk.3. Etre copains comme cochons: To be 'as thick as thieves', to be the best of pals.4. Etre adroit comme un cochon avec sa queue (iron.): To be 'ham-fisted', to be 'all thumbs', to be clumsy.5. Jouer un tour de cochon: To play a dirty trick.6. Travail de cochon: Botched work.7. Nous n'avons pas gardé les cochons ensemble! (iron.): There's no call to be so familiar with me!8. Cochon de payant: This standard expression is uttered whenever the speaker wishes to emphasize that he is 'one of them that don't get it for nothing'. The nearest English utterance is 'I fought for this country, I pay my rates!'II.adj.2. Quel cochon de¼! What bloody awful¼! Quel cochon de métier! What a rotten job to be in! Quel cochon de temps! What dreadful weather we're having! -
63 dégueulasserie
n. f. 'Rotten trick', deceitful action. Il m'a fait une belle dégueulasserie! He really did the dirty on me! -
64 déveine
n. f. Run of bad luck. Etre dans la déveine: To be down on one's luck. Quelle déveine! What rotten luck! -
65 enfilade
n. f. Run of bad luck. Rien ne marche pour lui en ce moment, il s'est tapé une enfilade terrible: He's had a spate of rotten luck lately, nothing seems to be going right for him. -
66 faisandé
adj.1. 'Rotten to the core', highly disreputable.2. 'Phoney', false. -
67 fanfare
n. f.1. 'Song-and-dance', fuss about nothing.2. En avant lafanfare! (joc.): Off we go again! (This rather hackneyed expression is often used by scoutmasters and other youth group leaders.) C'est un sale coup pour lafanfare! What rotten luck! -
68 fichu
adj.1. 'Bally', 'bloody', awful. Quel fichu temps! What rotten weather we're having! Il a un fichu caractère, tu sais! He's got a lousy temper.2. 'Done- for', doomed. Il est fichu, c'est lafin, vous savez! He's a goner, you know, he's not long for this world!3. Capable. Ne pas être fichu de faire quelque chose: To be incapable of doing something useful. Il n'est même pas fichu de faire la vaisselle: He can't even be relied on to do the dishes.4. Il est fichu de nepas venir. It's just as likely he won't turn up.5. Etre malfichu: To 'feel out of sorts', to be 'off-colour', to be unwell. -
69 filer
I.v. trans.1. (pol.): To 'tail', to shadow a suspect. On Va filé en douce dès son arrivée: We put a tail on him from the word go.a To follow someone around, to accompany someone everywhere.b To 'twig', to follow the gist of what someone is saying.3. To 'blow the gaff on someone', to 'snitch', to inform. Il m'a filé comme le dégueulasse qu'il est! Like the rotten swine he is, he went and told on me!4. Filer du chouette: To commit buggery, to practise sodomy.5. To 'hand over', to give. File-moi du fric! Give me some dough!6. To administer something unpleasant. Filer une beigne/ filer une baffe: To punch, to slap. Filer une danse: To bash up, to beat up. Elle m'afile la chtouille: I caught a dose of clap offher.7. Filer en cabane: To 'clap into jail', to put into prison.8. Filer un mauvais coton: To be in poor health.II.v. intrans.1. To 'scram', to 'skedaddle', to rush away.3. Filer doux: To 'change one's tune' to a humbler one, to 'knuckle under', to become docile and submissive.III.v. trans. reflex.1. To get into, to slip into. Il s'est filé dans le cagibi: He hid in the box-room. Se filer dans les toiles: To 'hit the sack', to go to bed.2. To get involved in something unpleasant. Il a été se filer dans une sale affaire: He got mixed 'up in some nasty business. -
70 flûtant
adj. 'Dashed', 'bally', darned. C'est flûtant, maisfaut que je rentre! I know it's rotten, but I've got to go home! -
71 fringale
n. f.1. Pangs of hunger. J'ai une de ces fringales! I'm absolutely famished!2. Avoir la fringale de quelque chose: To 'be dying for something', to be eager for something. J'ai la fringale de tes doux bras! (joc.): I'm missing you something rotten! -
72 gâche
n. f.1. Job, employment. Quelle gâche! What a rotten job! Une bonne gâche: A 'cushy number', a well-paid occupation necessitating little work. Lui, au moins, il s'est trouvé une bonne gâche: When it comes to cushy jobs, he's certainly landed the plummest!2. Room, space. 'y avait de la gâche: There was room to spare. -
73 gai
adj.1. Etre un peu gai: To be 'tiddly', to 'have had one over the eight', to be slightly inebriated.2. Ça, c'est gai, alors! (iron.): That's all we needed! — What rotten luck! -
74 garce
I.n. f.1. 'Bitch', spiteful woman.2. Quelle garce de vie! What a rotten life this is!II.adj. 'Bitchy', spiteful. Dans le genre garce on ne fait pas mieux: Bitch could be her middle name! -
75 griller
I.v. trans.1. En griller une: To 'have a fag', to have a smoke.2. To inform on, to denounce. Il m'a grillé comme le salaud qu'il est! The rotten sod went to the fuzz and did me!3. To 'brand', to give a bad name, to compromise. Si on nous voit ensemble, t'es grillé! If they see you with me, we'll be tarred with the same brush!4. C'est grillé! That's blown it! — That's torn it! —We've been found out! C'est grillé! Faut pas compter vendre notre camelote ici! It's curtains for us here, we don't stand a chance of getting any sales now!5. To 'race past', to pass someone in a race, to overtake. Il l'a grillé dans la ligne droite: He showed him a clean pair of heels in the straight.6. Griller un feu rouge: To 'burn the lights', to go through a set of traffic lights on red.II.v. pronom.1. To 'burn one's boats', to cut off one's escape options.2. To 'get tarred with a bad brush', to lose one's good name. Avec une histoire comme ça, il s'est grillé: A story like that will have sunk him for ever. -
76 manque
I.n. m.1. (Drug addiction): 'Cold turkey', withdrawal symptoms.2. Manque de pot! What rotten luck! (This expression is not always used as an interjection. Manque de pot, j'ai dû rentrer: It was just my (bad) luck I had to go home.)II.n. f. A la manque (adj.exp.): 'Dud', 'sham', worthless. Il a toujours sa bagnole à la manque: He's still driving around in his old banger. -
77 massacrante
adj. f. Etre d'une humeur massacrante: To be 'in a rotten mood', to be in a foul temper. -
78 moche
adj.1. Ugly, unattractive. Qu'elle est moche! She's got a face like the back of a bus! Etre moche à pleurer. To be as ugly as sin.2. 'Rotten', unethical. C'est vraiment moche ce que t'as fait! What you did is wrong and you know it! -
79 nèfles
n. f. pl.1. Des nèfles: 'Bugger-all', very little. Bref, tout ce boulot ça a été pour des nèfles?! What you're trying to tell me is that we've worked for peanuts! (Because, literally, nèfles are medlars i.e. a very 'low-market' fruit, the expression récolter des nèfles: to have very little to show for one's efforts, retains a certain agricultural flavour.)2. Avoir des nèfles plein la gueule: To be a mass of bruises. (Medlars are at their tastiest when discoloured and going rotten.)3. Des nèfles! Not on your nelly! — Not bloody likely! — You must be joking! (if you think that). -
80 nettoyer
v. trans.1. (Gambling slang): To 'clean out' a punter on a losing streak. Il m'a nettoyé au pok', facile! He trounced mc at poker, it was like taking sweets off a kid!2. (mil.): To 'mop up', to clear an area where enemy forces are concerned.3. (of disease): To 'wipe out', to kill. Il a attrapé une petite saloperie qui l'a nettoye en deux jours: He caught some rotten little bug and it polished him off in 48 hours.4. To 'rub out', to 'bump off', to kill.
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