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101 bille
I.n. f.1. 'Mush', 'dial', face. Avoir une bonne bille: To have a friendly mug. Salut, bille de clown! Hello funny-face! (This meaning of the word is seldom encountered in a pejorative context.)2. 'Mug', fool, simpleton. C'est une bille de première! He's an A-grade twit!3. Ne plus avoir toutes ses billes: To be 'soft in the head', to be senile. (The English look-alike expression 'to have lost one's marbles' is not an accurate translation.)4. Reprendre ses billes: To 'back out', to renege on a decision or promise. Si c'est comme ça, moi je reprends mes billes! If that's the way it's going to be, count me out!II.adj. 'Dumb', stupid. C'est le plus bille du lot! He's the thickest of the bunch! -
102 bonnard
I.n. m.1. 'Sucker', dupe.2. (of person): 'No-chancer', hopeless case. (In both instances the word, a corruption of bon, is anti phrastically ironical.)II.adj.1. O.K., fine, good. C'est bonnard, j'en suis! That's fine, count me in!2. Etre bonnard pour: To be earmarked by fate for something unpleasant. On est bonnard pour la vaisselle! Washing-up time¼we're in for it again! -
103 brosser
I.v. trans.1. To fuck, to 'screw', to have intercourse.2. To 'work over', to thrash.II.v. trans. reflex.2. Tu peux te brosser! You can whistle for it! —Don't count on it! Tu peux te brosser si tu t'imagines qu'il va te prêter du fric! You've got another think coming if it's money you're after! -
104 calmer
v. trans.1. ( iron): To knock someone out. Il l'a calmé d'une droite au menton: A jab on the chin and he was out for the count.2. To show someone who's boss, to bring someone into line. -
105 cirage
n. m. Etre dans le cirage:a To be 'in the dark about something', to be unaware of what is happening.b To be in a state of semi-consciousness (as a result of a blow, excessive drink, drugs, etc.). Trois bouteilles de roteux et on était tous dans le cirage: Three bottles of champers and we were just about out for the count.c To feel 'down in the dumps', to be overcome by depression. Il est dans le cirage depuis que sa femme l'a quitté: Since his wife left him, he's lost the will to live (also: broyer du noir).d To be in the financial doldrums, to have lost everything. -
106 class
adv. En avoir class: To have had more than enough, to be fed-up with something. Y en a class! Well that does it, you can count me out of all this rubbish! -
107 cunuter
v. trans. To 'tot up', to add up, to count. -
108 endormir
I.v. trans.1. (Boxing): To knock out cold, to knock out for the count.2. To 'bore the pants off someone', to be extremely boring.3. To 'pull the wool over someone's eyes', to con someone.II.v. pronom. S'endormir sur le rôti (also: sur le mastic): To 'slack on the job', to dawdle over one's work. -
109 étendre
v. trans.1. To knock out cold. Le champion the count in no time at all.a (sch.): To get 'ploughed' at an exam, to be failed in an examination.b (Gambling slang): To get 'cleaned out', to lose all one's money.c To get 'bumped off', to get 'done in', to be killed. Son paternel s'est fait étendre m '14 avec les copains: His old man got his chips with the other poor buggers in World War I. -
110 existence
n. f. C'est pas une existence! (iron.): This is no way to make a living! — If this is life, count me out! -
111 fin
I.n. m. C'est lefin du fin! It's the cat's whiskers! — It's the bee's knees! — It's first-rate!II.n. f.1. La fin des haricots: 'The last straw', the limit. Ça, c'est vraiment la fin des haricots! Well, that does it, count me out!2. Avoir des fins de mois difficiles: To 'find it difficult to make ends meet', to be short of money.3. Faire ses fins de mois: To engage in part-time prostitution to make ends meet.4. Liquider lesfins de série: To 'weed out the weak', to get rid of the weaklings. (Originally this expression referred only to the selling off at reduced prices of items that were not 'going well'.)5. Faire une fin (of footloose and fancy-free person): To turn over a new leaf and get married.a To end one's footloose and fancy-free days in style by a wealthy and opportune marriage.b To 'go out in a blaz'e of glory', to die in style.7. Sentir lafin de saison: To 'be getting past it', to have aged noticcably.III.adj. Avoir l'air fin: To 'look a proper Charlie', to look stupid. Ce que t'as l'air fin, mon pauvre vieux! (iron.): If you could only see yourself! (you'd realize how silly you are).IV.adv. Completely, absolutely. Etre fin prêt: To be ready to go. Etre fin ratiboisé: To be 'skint', to be stoney-broke. Etre fin saoul: To be 'pissed', 'sozzled', to be dead drunk. -
112 flottante
adj. La population flottante (pol.): The monthly count of drowned persons logged by the police! (This example of macabre humour was first noted by Jacques Arnal in his glossary L'ARGOT DE POLICE.) -
113 glandilleux
adj.1. 'Tricky', difficult.2. 'Dicey', dangerous. C'est trop glandilleux, je préfere passer la main: Count me out, it's a bit too risky for me. -
114 gras
I.n. m.1. Du gras: 'Brass', 'loot', money. Avec tout ce gras, on va se payer de belles vacances: With all this lovely lolly, we're going to have ourselves some super hols!2. Discuter le bout de gras: To 'jaw', to natter away.II.adv. Pas gras de: Not a lot, very little. De bons restaux par ici, 'y en a pas gras! Really good restaurants here, you can count them on the fingers of one hand! -
115 manger
v. trans. & intrans.1. Ça se laisse manger! This is pretty good grub by any standard!2. On en mangerait! If it's as good as it looks, count me in!3. Manger avec les chevaux de bois: To 'skip it', to 'skip a meal', to go without food.4. Manger de la vache enragée: To have to rough it, to be forced into a life of near total indigence.5. Manger son blé en herbe: To destroy a financial venture for the sake of a quick profit.6. Manger à tous les râteliers: To be an opportunist (by serving several masters or by receiving payments from different and often conflicting parties).aTo forget or ignore advice given.bTo 'pop one's clogs', to 'snuff it', to die.8. Manger le morceau: To 'spill the beans', to own up, to confess.9. En manger. To be a 'snitch', to be a police informer.10. Se manger le pif: To 'have a barney', to 'have a bust-up', to quarrel. Il y a là à boire et à manger:a There's more to it than meets the eye.b There are pros and cons. -
116 marcher
v. intrans.2. To 'be taken in', to fall for something. Il marche à tous les coups: He's as gullible as they come. Faire marcher quelqu'un: To 'pull someone's leg', to lead someone along.3. Ça ne marche pas pour moi! That doesn't suit me at all!4. Marcher à côté de ses lattes: To be 'down on one's uppers', to be 'broke', to be penniless (also: marcher sur les empeignes).5. Marcher sur les pieds de quelqu 'un: To 'tread on someone's corns', to oflend someone.6. Marcher à la dix heures dix: To have a 'ten-to-two' gait (with the tips of one's feet pointing outwards).7. Avoir appris à marcher sur un tonneau: To be 'bandy', to be bow-legged. -
117 miser
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118 pétard
n. m.1. 'Hullabaloo', uproar. Faire du pétard: To kick up a fuss. Etre en pétard: To be flaming angry. Se filer en pétard: To 'fly off the handle'.2. Danger, risk, peril. Quand il y a du pétard, 'faut pas compter sur lui! Don't count on him when things hot up!3. 'Arse', 'bum', behind. (With this meaning, the word has a built-in pejorative connotation as in 'Vise un pea ce pétard!' Look at that fat arse!)4. 'Rod', 'shooter', handgun. -
119 sortie
n. f.1. Outburst of temper, fit of verbal rage. Faire une sortie à quelqu'un: To 'give someone a right rollicking', to pitch into someone.2. Etre de sortie (joc. & iron.): To be 'nowhere to be found' (literally to be as present as if it was one's day off. When referring to anything but persons, the expression becomes even more ironical as in Son intelligence, elle est de sortie! I wouldn't count on his grey matter, it left without forwarding address! Mes économies, elles sont de sortie! My savings?! They've just about sunk without trace!). -
120 tableau
n. m.2. Ça ne fera (also: Ça ne ferait) pas mal dans le tableau! That would just fit the bill! — That would be just right! (also: Cela fera/ferait bien dans le paysage!).3. Tableau! Just picture the scene! J'entre dans lapiaule et je la trouve au plume avec un copain—tableau! I open the bedroom door and find her in bed with a pal of mine. Need I say more?!4. Jouer (also: miser) sur les deux tableaux (fig.): To 'hedge one's bets', to play for safety by avoiding total commitment to one side or the other in a financial enterprise or in an argument.5. Etre gagnant sur tous les tableaux: To be a winner 'all along the line', to have successfully 'hedged one's bets' and come out a winner on every count.6. C'est au tableau! 'lt's in the offing!'—It's in the reckoning! Un coup fourré comme ça, c'était au tableau! A cock-up like that was to be expected all along!7. Avoir¼ au tableau: (Fighter pilots'/hunters' slang): To have scored¼victories (to have bagged so much 'game'). C'est un as, il a quinze Messerschmitt au tableau! He's a crack pilot, to-date he's shot do own fifteen Jerry aircraft!8. Décrocher ses tableaux (joc.): To go 'scrumping for snot', to pick one's nose.
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