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1 massacre
massacre [masakʀ]masculine noun• je vais faire un massacre ! (inf) I'm going to kill somebody!* * *masakʀnom masculin1) ( tuerie) ( de personnes) massacre [U]; ( d'animaux) slaughter [U]2) (colloq) Sport, fig massacre3) (colloq) ( gâchis) botch(-up)••faire un massacre — (colloq) [chanteur] to be a roaring (colloq) success; [homme d'affaires] to make a killing
arrêtez le massacre! — (colloq) stop making such a mess of things!
* * *masakʀ nmmassacre, slaughterjeu de massacre — Aunt Sally, figwholesale slaughter
* * *massacre nm3 ○( gâchis) botch(-up); ne peins pas ça, tu vas faire un massacre○ don't paint it, you'll make a hash○ of it;5 Hérald attire.le Massacre des Innocents Bible the Massacre of the Innocents.faire un massacre○ [acteur, chanteur] to be a roaring○ success; [homme d'affaires, joueur] to make a killing; arrêtez le massacre○! stop making such a mess of things![masakr] nom masculin5 à 0, c'est un massacre! 5 nil, it's a massacre!il a fait un massacre dans le tournoi he massacred ou slaughtered ou made mincemeat of all his opponents in the tournament3. (familier) [travail mal fait]c'est du ou un massacrea. [gâchis] it's a messb. [bâclage] it's a botch-up ou botch (US)quel massacre, son "Phèdre"! she's managed to murder "Phèdre"regarde comment il m'a coupé les cheveux, c'est un vrai massacre! look at the mess he's made of my hair!attention en découpant le gâteau, quel massacre! watch how you cut the cake, you're making a pig's ear ou a real mess of it!4. (familier) [succès]faire un massacre to be a runaway success, to be a smash (hit)elle fait actuellement un massacre sur la scène de la Lanterne she's currently bringing the house down at the Lantern theatre5. CHASSE [trophée] stag's antlers ou attire6. HÉRALDIQUE harts attired ou caboched -
2 baraque
n. f.1. 'Dump', 'crummy house', hovel.2. Firm, business. Moi, je travaille plus pour cette baraque, j'en ai ma claque! I'm not working for this lousy outfit any more, I'm sick up to here with it!3. (pl.): 'Bollocks', 'balls', testicles.4. Losing throw at passe anglaise.5. Faire baraque: To fail. Il s'est lancé dans la limonade, mais comme dans tout ce qu'il tâtait il a fait baraque! He tried his luck running a pub, but as with all his ventures he made a cock-up of it!6. Casser la baraque (th.): To 'bring the house down', to be a roaring success. -
3 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!
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roaring success — great prosperity, huge success … English contemporary dictionary
a roaring success — ► something that is very successful: »The shares, which typically were only available to institutions, have been a roaring success. Main Entry: ↑roaring … Financial and business terms
be a roaring success — british phrase to be very successful The show was not the roaring success he anticipated. Thesaurus: to be, or to become successfulsynonym Main entry: roaring … Useful english dictionary
(a) roaring success — a ˌroaring sucˈcess idiom (informal) a very great success • The latest Disneyland has been a roaring success. Main entry: ↑roaringidiom … Useful english dictionary
be a roaring success — British to be very successful The show was not the roaring success he anticipated … English dictionary
roaring — roar‧ing [ˈrɔːrɪŋ] adjective do a roaring trade ( in something) informal COMMERCE to sell a lot of something very quickly: • The food sellers were doing a roaring trade in spiced sausages. * * * roaring UK US /rɔːrɪŋ/ adjective [before noun] ● … Financial and business terms
roaring — ► ADJECTIVE informal ▪ complete; unqualified: a roaring success. ● do a roaring trade (or business) Cf. ↑do a roaring trade ● the roaring forties Cf. ↑the roaring forties ● the roaring twenties … English terms dictionary
roaring — roar|ing [ˈro:rıŋ] adj 1.) [only before noun] making a deep, very loud, continuous noise ▪ the roaring wind and waves 2.) roaring fire a fire that burns with a lot of flames and heat 3.) do a roaring trade (in sth) BrE informal to sell a lot of… … Dictionary of contemporary English
roaring — adjective 1 (only before noun) making a deep, very loud, continuous noise: the roaring wind and waves 2 roaring fire a roaring fire burns with a lot of flames and heat 3 do a roaring trade (in) BrE informal to sell a lot of something very quickly … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
roaring — roar|ing [ rɔrıŋ ] adjective 1. ) a roaring fire burns very brightly and produces a lot of heat 2. ) making a loud deep noise: a roaring waterfall be a roaring success BRITISH to be very successful: The show was not the roaring success he… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
roaring — [[t]rɔ͟ːrɪŋ[/t]] 1) ADJ: ADJ n A roaring fire has large flames and is sending out a lot of heat. 2) ADJ: ADJ n If something is a roaring success, it is very successful indeed. The government s first effort to privatize a company has been a… … English dictionary
