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81 corde
n. f.1. Parler de corde dans la maison d'un pendu: To 'put one's foot in it', to mention the unmentionable.2. Avoir de la corde de pendu: To have the luck of the devil. (Popular belief has it that a piece of the tragic rope acts as a good luck charm.)3. Se mettre la corde au cou: To 'put on the ball and chain', to 'get hitched', to get married.4. Ça sent la corde! I can smell a rat! — It looks fishy (suspicious) to me!5. Il pleut des cordes: 'It's pissing down'—'It's raining cats and dogs'—It's pouring (also: il pleut des hallebardes).6. Faire des cordes pour la marine: To 'crap', to 'shit', to defecate.7. Ne tirez pas trop sur la corde ( avec moi): Don't push me too far (if you know what's good for you).8. Ça n'est pas dans mes cordes (also: ça ne rentre pas dans mes cordes): It's not (really) my line—I don't think I'm the right person for this.9. Prendre un virage a la corde (Motoring, cycling): To cut a corner close, to cut a corner fine. -
82 œil
n. m.1. Avoir quelqu'un a l'œil: To keep a close eye on someone. Je veux que vous m'ayez ce lascar à l'œil! Don't let that bugger out of your sight!2. Avoir quelqu'un dans l'œil (Racing and cycling slang): To see a fellow competitor forge ahead.3. L'avoir dans l'œil (fig.): To have been 'conned', 'diddled', to have been duped.4. Risquer un œil: To 'take a peep', to glance furtively at something.5. Se rincer l'œil: To 'feast one's eyes', to get a salacious eyeful.6. Pisser de l'œil (often of woman): To 'have the weepies', to 'turn on the waterworks', to cry.7. Ne dormir que d'un œil: To take a wary 'forty winks', to drift into a state of superficial sleep because danger is lurking.8. Ouvrir l'œil et le bon: To 'keep one's weather eye open', to keep a sharp lookout.9. Monter un œil à quelqu'un: To 'give someone a shiner', a black eye.10. Avoir un œil qui dit merde à l'autre (joc.): To have a pronounced squint (also: avoir les yeux qui se croisent les bras).11. Tourner de l'œil: To 'pass out', to faint.12. Etre frais comme l'œil (of person): To be (and look) as fresh as a daisy.13. Obéir au doigt et à l'œil'. To be hyperobedient (literally to jump to attention at the quiver of an eyebrow).14. Faire un œil de crapaud mort d'amour. To look 'spoony', to have a lovesick expression on one's face.a To make a deep impression on someone.b To 'click' with someone, to take someone's fancy.16. S'en battre l'œil: 'Not to care a rap about something', to be totally unconcerned.17. Mon œil! You must be joking! (This ironical interjection is usually accompanied by the pulling down with the index finger of the lower eyelid. This 'bodyspeak' gesture emphasizes the 'I'm not as gullible as you think' quality of the remark.)18. L'œil du bidet ( pol): 'Dick', private eye. (This pejorative appellation for a private detective reflects explicitly the snooping that constitutes a fair proportion of his business.)19. L'œil de bronze: The anus, the anal sphincter (where sodomous intercourse is concerned). -
83 queue
n. f.1. 'Prick', 'cock', penis.2. Queue de cervelas (Prison slang): Monotonous daily walk round the exercise-yard.3. A la queue-leu-leu: In close single-file. ( Marcher à la queue-leu-leu evokes the image of elephants filing past in a trunk-to-tail chain.)4. Faire des queues: To be unfaithful to one's spouse.5. Laisser une queue (in hotel, restaurant): To leave without paying the bill.6. Bouffer des queues de cerises: To be down on one's luck (literally to be so impoverished that any foodstuff will do).7. Faire une queue de poisson (of vehicle): To cut in (in front of another, after having overtaken).8. Finir en queue de poisson (of play, musical piece, story): To come to an abrupt and unexpected end. -
84 vert
I.n. m. Se mettre au vert: To settle down to a life of leisure away from the rat-race.II.adj.1. (of story, joke): 'Blue', risqué and smutty. En sortir des vertes et des pas mûres: To come out with some pretty close-to-theknuckle stuff.3. Langue verte: Another appellation for argot. (To claim a definitive origin here, in view of conflicting opinions, seems unwise.)
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