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1 garçonne
gaʀsɔn* * *garçonne nf avoir les cheveux taillés or être coiffée à la garçonne to have an urchin cut.[garsɔn] nom féminin————————à la garçonne locution adverbiale -
2 chou
I.n. m.1. 'Bean', 'bonce', head. Je vois lui rentrer dans le chou! I'm going to knock his block off! En avoir ras le chou: To be 'fed-up to here', to be 'fed-up to the back teeth', to be sick and tired of something. Se creuser le chou: To rack one's brains. Ne rien avoir dans le chou: To have nothing up-top. Ça m'est sorti du chou: I clean forgot! — It slipped my mind! Se monter le chou:a To 'kid oneself', to delude oneself.b To 'get into a lather', to work oneself into a frenzy.2. Feuilles de chou: 'Flappers', 'flaps', ears. Ouvre tes feuilles de chou! Pin back your lug-holes! — Now listen carefully!3. Aller planter ses choux: To opt out and retire from the rat-race.4. Planter un chou (of train): To break down in the middle of nowhere.5. Sauter sur le chou à quelqu'un: To pounce on someone.a To be 'in a fix', to be in a difficult situation. Ton projet, il est dans les choux: That idea of yours is up the spout! Grâce à toi, je suis dans les choux! A fine mess you've got me into!b (Horse racing): To be trailing with the tailenders, to be amongst the last past the post.7. Chou pour chou: Word for word, verbatim. J'ai eu droit à son histoire trois fois, chou pour chou! He inflicted three carbon-copy narrations of the story on me!8. C'est bête comme chou: It's as easy as pie—It couldn't be simpler.9. Faire chou blanc: To 'draw a blank', to be unsuccessful.10. En faire ses choux gras: To 'make a good thing of it', to do well out of something.11. Faites-en des choux raves! You do what you like with it, it's no skin off my nose!12. Mon chou (term of endearment): My lovey-dovey My pet—My darling.II.adj. 'Divine', absolutely marvellous. Son appartement est d'un chou! She's got the most gorgeous little flat! -
3 soucoupe
n. f.1. Bill in café or restaurant (because the 'billet doux' informing the client how much he owes is delivered in a saucer—a worthy receptacle for a tip. Cellard and Rey in their DICTIONNAIRE DU FRANÇAIS NONCONVENTIONNEL mention that up to 1940, amounts owed in bistrots were actually inscribed on the saucer itself).2. (Cycling slang): 'Chain-wheel', sprocket-wheel to which the pedals are attached. (Gaston Esnault in his DICTIONNAIRE DES ARGOTS exemplifies the use of this word in the expression appuyer sur la soucoupe: to use the larger chain-wheel in order to develop maximum pedal-ratio.)3. (pl.): 'Flappers', 'lug-holes', ears. -
4 anse
n. f.1. 'Wing', arm. (The image here, as with the next meaning, reflects the loop configuration of a handle, i.e. that of a basket or a cup.)2. (pl.): 'Flappers', ears.3. Faire sauter l'anse du panier: To divert housekeeping funds into one's own pocket. -
5 étagères
n. f. pl. Etagères à mégots: 'Flappers', ears. (This jocular term aptly describes the French habit of leaving half-consumed cigarettes parked behind the ear.) -
6 portugaises
n. f. pl. 'Lug-holes', 'flappers', ears. Avoir les portugaises ensablées: To be a trifle deaf. ( Portugaises are a variety of oysters and the shell of this mollusc closely resembles an ear.) -
7 zozores
n. f. pl. 'Flappers', ears. (Like zyeuter, zozores is the product of an over-stressed liaison as in les oreilles.)
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