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101 client
n. m.1. 'Mug', 'sucker', dupe.2. 'Cove', 'geezer', strange character.3. Etre client: To be extremely keen about something. Une semaine de boustifaille gratis, un peu que je suis client! One week's free grub suits mejust fine! -
102 empoigne
n. f.1. Foire d'empoigne: 'Free-for-all', brawl, all-out fight.2. Acheter quelque chose à la foire d'empoigne (joc.): To get something from 'off the back of a lorry', to come into posses sion of goods of dubious origin. -
103 foire
n. f.1. Bedlam, state of crush and confusion. Les grands magasins la semaine d'avant Noël, c'est toujours lafoire: It's utter chaos trying to shop in a big store the week before Christmas.2. Faire la foire: To 'paint the town red', to live it up. Quand on a su la nouvellf, on a fait une foire du tonnerre: We had one hell of a binge when the good news came through.3. Foire d'empoigne: Free-for-all where the weakest go to the wall. Acheter quelque chose a la foire d'empoigne: To get something from 'off the back of a lorry', to acquire illegally.4. La foire aux croûtes (iron.): The 'daub-show', exhibition of atrocious paintings.5. S'entendre comme larrons en foire: To 'be as thick as thieves', to be the best of pals.6. La foire n'estpas sur lepont! (also: Il n'y a pas la foire sur le pont!): Cool it, there's no rush!7. 'The shits', 'the runs', diarrhoea.8. 'Blue funk', intense fear. -
104 saloper
v. trans. To 'botch', to 'bungle', to make a mess of something. Si vous le laissez faire, il va tout nous saloper! If you give him a free hand, he'll muck everything up! -
105 sauce
n. f.1. 'Soup', heavy downpour of rain. Recevoir une sauce: To get soaked to the skin.2. Motor-fuel (petrol or diesel). Mettre la sauce: To 'burn some rubber', to accelerate violently.3. Coup de sauce (Sporting slang): Burst of energy. Répondre à chaque coup de sauce (Cycling slang): To counter every sprint.a To 'juice off', to ejaculate.b To fire off, to shoot (a gun).5. Etre dans la sauce: To be 'in the soup', 'in a pickle', to be in a fix.6. Allonger (also: rallonger) la sauce (of tale, narration): To 'spin it out', to make it last and last.7. Faire de la sauce (Musicians' slang): To 'fill in' with some spontaneous free composition.8. Mettre à toutes les sauces: To put someone or something to every possible use. Le pauvre, on le met à toutes les sauces! Poor bugger! He seems to be at everyone's beck and call!
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