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41 avoir
v. trans.1. To 'take in', to fool. Eh bien, vous m'avez drôlement eu! You've certainly put one across me!2. To 'beat hollow', to dismiss through victory.3. To 'screw', to 'have it off' with someone.4. To 'reach' someone, to make contact with someone. J'ai pas pu l'avoir au bigophone: I couldn't reach him on the blower.5. En avoir: To be 'gutsy', plucky, to be brave. (En can refer either to courage or couilles according to the colloquial emphasis within the expression.)6. En avoir jusque-là: To be 'fed up to the back teeth', to be sick and tired of someone or something. J'en ai jusque-là de ces histoires à la con! I've just about had it up to here with these pointless arguments!7. En avoir contre quelqu'un: To bear someone a grudge.8. Avoir quelqu'un aux sentiments: To get what one wants by playing on someone's feelings.9. J'en ai pour deux jours! It'll keep me busy for two days! -
42 cavaler
I.v. trans.1. To bore.2. To pester, to be a nuisance. Il commence à me cavaler avec ses demandes de prêts: I'm sick and tired of his constant requests for subs.II.v. intrans.1. To 'leg it', to 'traipse', to have to walk.2. To dash, to run. Chaque fois que je le vois, il est en train de cavaler! Whenever I come across him he's always in a rush.3. To 'chase skirts', to be always after girls.III.v. pronom. To 'make tracks', to 'scarper', to run away. -
43 chou
I.n. m.1. 'Bean', 'bonce', head. Je vois lui rentrer dans le chou! I'm going to knock his block off! En avoir ras le chou: To be 'fed-up to here', to be 'fed-up to the back teeth', to be sick and tired of something. Se creuser le chou: To rack one's brains. Ne rien avoir dans le chou: To have nothing up-top. Ça m'est sorti du chou: I clean forgot! — It slipped my mind! Se monter le chou:a To 'kid oneself', to delude oneself.b To 'get into a lather', to work oneself into a frenzy.2. Feuilles de chou: 'Flappers', 'flaps', ears. Ouvre tes feuilles de chou! Pin back your lug-holes! — Now listen carefully!3. Aller planter ses choux: To opt out and retire from the rat-race.4. Planter un chou (of train): To break down in the middle of nowhere.5. Sauter sur le chou à quelqu'un: To pounce on someone.a To be 'in a fix', to be in a difficult situation. Ton projet, il est dans les choux: That idea of yours is up the spout! Grâce à toi, je suis dans les choux! A fine mess you've got me into!b (Horse racing): To be trailing with the tailenders, to be amongst the last past the post.7. Chou pour chou: Word for word, verbatim. J'ai eu droit à son histoire trois fois, chou pour chou! He inflicted three carbon-copy narrations of the story on me!8. C'est bête comme chou: It's as easy as pie—It couldn't be simpler.9. Faire chou blanc: To 'draw a blank', to be unsuccessful.10. En faire ses choux gras: To 'make a good thing of it', to do well out of something.11. Faites-en des choux raves! You do what you like with it, it's no skin off my nose!12. Mon chou (term of endearment): My lovey-dovey My pet—My darling.II.adj. 'Divine', absolutely marvellous. Son appartement est d'un chou! She's got the most gorgeous little flat! -
44 debout
adv.1. Ne plus tenir debout: To be 'knackered', 'dead-tired', to be exhausted.2. Ça ne tient pas debout (of argument): It doesn't hold water—It doesn't make sense.3. Avoir quelqu'un lout debout: To 'con', to 'diddle', to swindle someone. Il s'est fait avoir tout debout: He went for that hook, line and sinker. -
45 endosses
n. f. pl. Back, shoulders. En avoir plein les endosses: To be 'worn out and fed up', to be tired. Mettre quelque chose sur les endosses de quelqu'un: To get someone to 'carry the can', to make someone responsible for something (also: faire porter le bada à quelqu'un). -
46 nerf
n. m.1. Avoir les nerfs à cran (also: avoir lei nerfs en boule or en pelote): To be 'all on edge', to be extremely tense. Tout ça m'a mis les nerfs a cran: This whole business has made me really uptight.2. Porter sur les nerfs à quelqu'un: To 'get on someone's wick', to irritate and make angry. Tu commences à me porter sur les nerfs! I'm getting rather tired of you!3. Y mettre du nerf: To 'put some vim into it', to get some zest into whatever one is doing. (This expression is practically always found in the second person singular or plural of the imperative. Mets-y du nerf, bon sang! For Pete's sake, get a move on!)4. Le nerf de la guerre: 'Loot', 'brass', money (literally what makes war-mongering financially possible).5. Ne pas avoir un nerf: To be 'skint', to be penniless. (Unlike the previous entry for this word, the reference is to 'argent monnayé', i.e. real money in notes and coins, and the word is pronounced nerffe.)
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