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61 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. -
62 jeter
v. trans.1. To 'bounce', to 'chuck out', to kick someone out. Il s'est fait jeter en beauté! He got the heave-ho, no messing!2. Jeter quelqu'un dedans: To 'drop someone in it', to land someone in trouble.3. S'en jeter un derrière la cravate: To toss back a drink.5. N'en jetez plus, la cour est pleine! (joc. & iron.): Whoa with the compliments! — That's more than enough praise! (This expression is usually directed at someone bestowing lavish praise or compliments. It originates from the world of street-singers who, when times were hard, performed in the backyards of apartment blocks hoping that the flat-dwellers would throw them a few coins. A glut of coins seems an unlikely occurrence!)6. En jeter. To 'graft', to work hard. Pour en jeter, il en jette, il ne craint pas la besogne, lui! You've got to hand it to him, he's no shirker!7. La jeter mal: To 'look bad', to give a bad impression. Elle la jetait mal dans ses fringues rapiécées: She certainly looked no fashion model in her stitched-up hand-medowns!8. Ça, c'est jeté! That's the stuff to give 'em! — That's telling them!
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