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121 comm'
n. f. (abbr. commission): 'Kickback', 'cut', financial rake-off. Il ne travaille qu'à la comm': If you want results, you'll have to give him a piece of the action (also: commisse). -
122 commisse
n. f. (abbr. commission): 'Kickback', 'cut', financial rake-off (also: comm'). -
123 panne
n. f.1. Breakdown (general meaning). Tomber en panne (of car): To 'conk out', to have a breakdown. On est resté en panne plus de cinq heures: It took more than five hours to get the car on the road again. Avoir une panne d'essence: To run out of petrol. Panne d'électricité: Blackout, power-cut.2. Laisser quelqu'un en panne: To 'leave someone in the lurch', to let someone down.3. 'Blackout', lapse of memory.4. (th.): 'Bit part', walk-on walk-off part (one that no true actor would really fancy).5. (of picture): 'Daub', monstrosity (the 'painting-by-numbers' variety).6. Financial breakdown. Etre dans une panne noire: To be in dire poverty.7. (Junk dealers' slang): 'Stayer', 'white-elephant', unsaleable item. -
124 poisson
n. m.1. Pimp, procurer. (As G.Sandry and M.Carrère point out in their DICTIONNAIRE DE L'ARGOT MODERNE, many slang words for pimp are names of fish species, to wit, barbeau, barbillon, brochet, hareng, merlan, maquereau, etc.)2. Faire des yeux de poisson frit: To raise one's gaze skywards and show the whites of one's eyes to express cynical contempt, boredom, etc. (also: faire des yeux de merlan frit).3. Engueuler ( quelqu'un) comme du poisson pourri: To 'bawl someone out', to 'give someone a dressingdown', to tell someone off.5. Noyer le poisson: To cloud and confuse the issue with an avalanche of irrelevant facts.6. Faire une queue de poisson (of vehicle): To cut in (in front of another, after having overtaken).7. Finir en queue de poisson (of play, musical piece, story): To come to an abrupt and unexpected end.
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