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101 arrière-train
n. m. 'Bum', 'arse', posterior. Mon père m'a élevé à coups de pompes dans l'arrière-train: My dad believed in the old saying 'Spare the rod and spoil the child'. -
102 Bibendum
Proper name. Nickname given to the Michelin logo-figure whose ample proportions seem to be delineated by a series of 'spare tyres'. (The word has become generic for a 'fatso', any outrageously fat man.) -
103 bide
n. m.1. Paunch, belly. Avoir du bide: To have something of a spare tyre. S'en mettre plein le bide: To stuff one's face.2. Ne rien avoir dans le bide: To be gutless, to lack courage.3. Tomber sur le bide (fig.): To 'fall flat on one's face', to 'come a cropper', to suffer disappointment.4. Tomber sur un bide: To 'come unstuck', to hit a snag.5. Faire un bide (th.): To 'have a flop', to get bad reviews. -
104 bon
I.adj.1. Etre bon (iron.): To be a 'sucker', to be a dupe. (The expression je suis bon, mais ça ne s'écrit pas avec un c! further highlights the built-in irony of the adjective.)2. Etre bon pour: To be due for, to be in line for something unpleasant. Il est bon pour la casse: He's ready for the chop.II.n. m.1. Avoir du bon: To have some good points (in spite of everything).2. Avec deux minutes de bon: With two minutes to spare. -
105 bras
n. m.1. In a number of expressions the English equivalent of bras is 'hand' or 'hands'. Avoir quelqu'un sur les bras: To have someone on one's hands. Mes bras sont liés: My hands are tied. Etre le bras droit de quelqu'un: To be someone's right-hand man.2. Avoir le bras long: To have 'plenty of pull', to be influential.3. Faire le gros bras: To play the tough guy, to throw one's weight about.4. Mettre le bras jusqu'au coude: To go all out at something, to spare no effort.5. En avoir les bras coupés: To be 'flabbergasted', to be astounded by something (also: m avoir les bras qui tombent).6. En avoir plein les bras: To be 'sick up to here', to be fed up with something. J'en ai plein les bras de cette affaire! I'm fed up to the back teeth with all this!7. Frapper ( quelqu'un) à bras raccourcis (also: tomber sur quelqu'un à bras raccourcis): To 'pitch into someone', to shower someone with blows.8. Ça m'est resté sur les bras: I've been lumbered with it—I'm stuck with it. -
106 brioche
n. f.1. 'Pot-belly', paunch. Prendre de la brioche: To develop a spare tyre.2. (pl.): 'Bum', 'backside', behind.3. Tortiller de la brioche: To 'shake it all about', to dance.4. Partir en brioche (fig.): To 'go to pieces', to totally lose one's composure. -
107 compression
n. f. Manquer de compression: To lack 'oomph', to lack go, to have little energy to spare. -
108 cuillère
n. f.1. 'Mitt', 'paw', hand. Serrer la cuillère a quelqu'un: To shake someone's hand.2. En trois coups de cuillère a pot: In two shakes —In a jiffy — Very quickly.3. Ne pas y aller avec le dos de la cuillère (iron.):a To 'lay it on thick', to exaggerate.b To spare no-one's feelings, to act ruthlessly.4. Etre à ramasser à la petite cuillère: To be 'knackered', 'jiggered', to be exhausted.5. Etre aussi argenté qu'une cuillère de bois (joc.): To be 'down on one's uppers', to be 'skint', to be penniless. -
109 démantibuler
v. trans.1. To 'break', to dismantle for spare parts.2. To 'bugger up', to render unfit for use. (In both instances the word refers to machinery.) -
110 detail
n. m. Ne pas faire de détail:a To act in a 'ham-fisted', in a clumsy manner.b To 'put one's back into something', to spare no effort. -
111 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. -
112 gant
n. m.1. Retourner quelqu'un comme un gant: To 'twist someone round one's little finger', to be so forceful as to sway someone into changing their mind.2. Prendre des gants ( avec quelqu'un): To take great care not to offcnd or upset someone. Il n'a pas pris des gants pour lui dire ses quatre vérités! He wasn't out to spare her feelings when he told her a few home truths!3. Ça me va comme un gant: It suits me to a T— That suits me down to the ground—That's certainly O.K. by me.4. Se donner des gants: To take the credit for doing something. Comme toujours il s'est donné des gants: Like the modest so-and-so he is, he pulled the blanket to himself yet again!5. Savonner quelqu'un au gant de crin: To give someone a sharp telling-off.7. En être pour ses gants: To be 'the fall-guy', to be the sucker. J'en ai été pour mes gants! It's muggins who carried the can! -
113 gras-double
n. m. 'Spare-tyre', 'pot-belly', paunch. -
114 rab
n. m.1. (of food): 'Seconds', second helping. S'il en reste dans la marmite, je prendrais bien du rab! If there's any grub going spare, I wouldn't mind another helping! (The expression du rab de rab in school and army canteens is what pupils and recruits will ask for when really hungry.)2. En rab: Surplus to requirements. J'ai deux places de théâtre en rab! I've got two theatre tickets if anybody wants them! -
115 rabiot
n. m.1. (of food): 'Seconds', second helping.2. En rabiot: 'Going spare', surplus to requirements.3. Faire un peu de rabiot: To do some overtime. -
116 revendre
v. trans. En avoir a revendre (of gift, talent): To have enough and to spare. Sur le plan de la débrouillardise, il en a à revendre! When it comes to falling back on his feet again, he's not short on tricks! -
117 roue
n. f.1. Etre dans la roue: To be 'in the running', to be in on a success. (This expression and the following three originate from the language of racing cyclists.)a To ride in a fellow-competitor's wind-stream, to stick to his rear wheel in a leech-like manner.b (fig.): To stick closely to someone and copy his every move with the intention of beating him at the finish.3. Montrer sa roue arrière: To 'show a clean pair of heels', to leave the opposition standing.4. Faire roue libre: To take life easy (as the literal meaning suggests, 'to free-wheel along').5. Mettre des bâtons dans les roues à quelqu'un: To 'put a spoke in someone's wheel', to hamper someone's progress.6. Pousser a la roue (fig.): To give (someone) a push in the right direction.7. Faire la roue: To 'strut about', to show off (like the peacock whence the expression originates).8. Graisser les roues (of motorist): To 'have one for the road', to have one more drink before driving off.9. Etre la cinquième roue du carrosse: To be surplus to requirements (to have as little active use as a spare wheel on a stage-coach). -
118 tabac
n. m.1. (abbr. bureau de tabac): Tobacconist's. (In France the licence to sell tobacco nearly always goes with that of selling alcoholic drinks, and the Café-Tabac with its distinctive red diamond-shaped sign is part of the typical French scenery.)2. Fumer du tabac de Chine (joc. & iron.): To smoke 'o.p.'s', to cadge 'smokes' from other people. (The jocularity of the expression stems from the pun on Chine with the meaning of 'cadging', not 'China'.)3. Un mauvais tabac. A 'bad business', a bad state of affairs. C'est un mauvais tabac d'être à court de fric le 20 du mois! It's a sorry thing to have run out of housekeeping money after only three weeks!4. 'Rocket', 'roasting', telling-off. Passer un tabac à quelqu'un: To tear a strip off someone.5. Faire tout un tabac: To 'make a song- and-dance about something', to kick up a fuss.6. Passer quelqu'un à tabac: To give someone 'the third degree', to beat someone up. (The passage à tabac is always associated with alleged police brutality.)7. Coup de tabac (Naval slang): 'Spot of rough weather', storm.8. Se donner un tabac terrible: To give oneself no end of trouble, to spare oneself no effort.9. Faire un tabac terrible (th.): To have a rip-roaring success in a stage production.10. C'est du même tabac! It's six of one, half a dozen of the other! — It's much of a muchness! — It's the same thing! -
119 de reste
over, (and) to spare -
120 disponible
available, at hand, in hand, spare
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SPARE — SPARE … Википедия
Spare — Spare, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sparing}.] [AS. sparian, fr. sp[ae]r spare, sparing, saving; akin to D. & G. sparen, OHG. spar?n, Icel. & Sw. spara, Dan. spare See {Spare}, a.] 1. To use frugally or stintingly, as that which … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Spare — Spare, a. [Compar. {Sparer}; superl. {Sparest}; not used in all the senses of the word.] [AS. sp[ae]r sparing. Cf. {Spare}, v. t. ] 1. Scanty; not abundant or plentiful; as, a spare diet. [1913 Webster] 2. Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
spare — [sper] vt. spared, sparing [ME sparien < OE sparian, akin to spær, thrifty, Ger sparen, to save: see SPACE] 1. to treat with mercy or leniency; refrain from killing, injuring, troubling, or distressing; save 2. to save or free a person from… … English World dictionary
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spare — [adj1] extra, reserve additional, backup, de trop, emergency, free, in excess, in reserve, in store, lagniappe, leftover, more than enough*, odd, option, over, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus, unoccupied, unused, unwanted;… … New thesaurus
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