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81 frite
n. f.1. (pej.); 'Mush', 'dial', face. Vise cette sale frite! Take a look at that ugly customer!2. 'Zizz', painful blow on the behind given with a flick of the wrist. (This typically French schoolboy prank is particularly painful to the recipient as the speed with which the fingernails meet their target creates a hot and searing pain.)3. En être (also: en rester) comme deux ronds de frites: To be 'all of a heap', to be 'flabbergasted', to be dumbfounded. -
82 gratter
I.v. trans.1. To beat, to get the better of someone. Il pensait me gratter, mais je l'ai eu au finish: He thought he could beat me, but I showed him who was boss.2. To 'show a clean pair of heels', to pass someone, to overtake. Il a été gratte d'une longueur (Racing slang): He was beaten by a length.3. Gratter les fonds de tiroir: To scrape the bottom of the financial barrel.4. Gratter du jambonneau: To play the mandolin or the guitar.5. En gratter pour: To be 'spoony on', to 'have a crush on', to be infatuated with. Je crois qu'elle en gratte pour ma pomme: I think she's doolally on me.II.v. intrans. To work, to be employed. Il gratte chez Renault: He's got a job with Renault. Dans ce boulot il faut drôlement gratter: If you want to keep that job you've got to graft.III.v. trans. reflex.1. To hesitate, to want to think things over. Je me gratte pour savoir si je pars en vacances: I'm not quite sure I want to go on holiday.2. Pouvoir toujours se gratter (iron.): To 'have another think coming', to be under a serious misapprehension. Il peut toujours se gratter s'il pense que je vais lui prêter du fric! He doesn't stand a cat-in-hell's chance of getting any money off me!3. Se gratter la couenne: To be bored to sobs. (This is a jocular reference to shaving as in the synonymous expression se raser.) -
83 pomme
I.n. f.1. 'Bean', 'bonce', head.2. 'Mush', 'mug', face (perhaps because of the rosiness of round cheeks). Sucer la pomme à quelqu'un: To give someone 'a smacker' on the cheek, to kiss. Ne fais pas cette pomme! Stop pulling that sour face!3. Pomme de terre:a 'Spud', 'potato', large hole in sock.b 'Tall story'. Monter une pomme de terre: To spin one hell of a yarn.4. 'Mug', fool, simpleton. Et moi, bonne pomme, je lui ai prêté des sous! And me being the sucker I am, I went and lent him some money! Une pomme à l'eau: An incredibly gullible person.5. Etre haut comme trois pommes: To be 'knee-high to a grasshopper', to be very small.6. Tomber dans les pommes: To 'keel over', to 'pass out', to faint.7. Aux pommes: 'A-1', first-class. C'est aux pommes! It's super-duper!8. Recevoir des pommes cuites (of actor): To 'get the bird', to be given a hostile reception (literally to be pelted with projectiles that considerate members of the audience have taken the precaution to cook).9. Ma pomme: Me, myself. Ta pomme: You, yourself. Sa pomme: Him, himself. ( Ma pomme was the name of a song made famous by featuring that artist. The song did a lot to Maurice Chevalier, also the title of a film promote the usage of this term.)10. Des pommes! Not bloody likely! — Nothing doing! —Certainly not! Faire quelque chose pour des pommes: To do something for bugger-all.II.adj. inv. 'Green', simple, inexperienced.
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