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21 patte
n. f.1. 'Pin', 'gamb', leg. Aller à pattes: To 'hoof it', to have to walk. Aux pattes! (Let's) scram! Ne pas être solide sur ses pattes: To be unsteady on one's pins. Tirer la patte: To limp.2. En avoir plein les pattes: To be 'all-in', to feel worn-out.3. Ça ne casse pas quatre pattes à un canard! (joc. & iron.): It's no great shakes! — I don't rate it very highly!4. Lever la patte (of man):a To have a 'slash', to urinate (literally to cock a leg).b To get a 'leg-over', to 'screw', to have coition.5. Marcher sur trois pattes (of conventional motor car): To fire on only three cylinders. (An offspring of the above literal meaning, the figurative describes a venture or undertaking that is not running smoothly.)6. Traîner la patte: To 'come the old soldier' (literally to exaggerate a limp in order to get compassion).a To 'put a spoke in someone's wheel', to hamper someone's progress.b To 'stab someone in the back', to speak ill of someone.8. Etre fait aux pattes (also: se faire faire aux pattes): To get 'nabbed', to be 'collared', to get arrested.9. 'Mitt', 'paw', hand. Arriver les pattes vides: To come empty-handed. Bas les pattes! (Woman's retort): Stop pawing! — Keep your hands to yourself!10. Faire patte de velours (fig.): To 'draw in one's claws', to be extra gentle with someone.11. Faire ( des) pattes d'araignée à quelqu'un: To 'goose', to caress lightly with nails and fingertips.12. Faire des pattes de mouche: To write in a spidery script.13. Graisser la patte à quelqu'un: To 'grease someone's palm', to bribe someone.14. Faire quelque chose aux pattes: To 'lift', to 'pinch' something.15. Avoir le coup de patte: To 'have the knack', to be skilful at something.16. Pattes de lapin (Hairstyle): Short sideboards.17. Feet (without colloquial overtones). Retomber sur ses pattes:a To 'fall on one's feet', to come off better than one might have expected.b To 'get offscot-free', to escape ill-fate or retribution, sometimes through good fortune, but more often than not through connivance.18. Se fourrer dans les pattes de quelqu'un: To disturb someone (literally to get in someone's way).19. Mettre une affaire sur pattes: To start up a business, to get an enterprise under way.20 Avoir des pattes d'oie: To have 'crow's feet', 'laugh-lines', to have wrinkles around the eyes. -
22 rien
I.indef. pron.1. Pour trois fois rien (of purchase): 'For next-to-nothing', very cheaply. Son mobilier s'est vendu pour trois fois rien en salle des ventes: In auction, his furniture went for a song.2. En un rien: 'ln no time at all', very quickly. En un rien on survolait déjà l'Atlantique: It seemed like minutes and we were well on our way to America.3. Ce n'est pas rien! It's quite something! Faire le tour du monde en bateau, ce n'est pas rien! Sailing round the world is no mean feat!4. De rien! No trouble at all! — Don't mention it! (This polite retort to words of gratitude is rather low-brow.)5. Rien de rien: 'Fuck-all', 'bugger- all', nothing at all.II.adv. ( Antiphrastic intensifier): 'Not half', very. Elle est rien moche! She's as ugly as sin! C'est rien bath de passer des vacances avec toi! It's really super spending hols with you! -
23 sifflet
n. m. 'Gullet', throat. Se rincer le sifflet: To 'have a quick one', to down a drink. Couper le sifflet à quelqu'un:a To slit someone's throat.b To 'score off someone', to shut someone up with an unanswerable retort. -
24 tapé
adj.1. 'Bonkers', 'potty', mad. T'es tapé, non?! You crazy in the head or something?!2. Réponse bien tapée: Stinging retort (one that leaves the recipient speechless. Elle est bien tapée, celle-là! That's the style! — That's the stuff to give 'em!) -
25 tête
n. f.1. Avoir la tête de l'emploi (iron.): To 'look the part'. Les croque-morts n'ontpas toujours la tête de l'emploi, c'est souvent des rigolos! Undertakers aren't always the mournful buggers we expect them to be!3. Faire la mauvaise tête: To be 'pig-headed', to be obstreperous and reluctant to comply.4. Avoir ses têtes: To 'have one's (little) favourites', to let oneself be ruled by likes and dislikes where relationships at work are concerned.5. Avoir une tête à coucher dehors avec un billet de logetnent: To have an 'ugly mug', to have an unattractive face (in fact, to have the kind of features that would even get you turned a way from a welfare hostel).6. Faire un prix à la tête du client: To quote a price according to the likely means of a customer. Au garage, lesprix sont un peu à la tête du client! If you drive a Rolls, they'll charge the earth for repairs!7. Tête de pipe: Portrait-photograph. J'ai vu sa tête de pipe dans le canard! I've seen his mug somewhere in a paper!10. Affaire tête de lard (pol.): Dead-end enquiry, one where witnesses and accused alike make the police's job more arduous by refusing to co-operate.11. Se payer la tête de quelqu'un: To 'take the piss out of someone', to 'take the mickey', to poke fun at someone.12. Etre tombé sur la tête: To be 'bonkers', 'potty', to be mad. T'es tombé sur la tête, quoi?! You crazy in the head?!a To 'take a header', to dive into the water.b (fig.): To 'go under', to become bankrupt.14. Petite tête! (jocular form of address): Salut, petite tête! Mornin' mate! Alors, comment ça va, petite tête?! Well, how's tricks?!15. Cause à mon cul, ma tête est malade! (sarcastic retort): 'Get knotted'—I don't want to hear what you've got to say!16. La tête et lesjambes: The combination of brains and brawn. (The expression courir avec la tête et les jambes originates from the racing cyclist's slang and refers to competitors who use critical judgement when exerting physical effort. In the 1960s, a television quiz-cum-competition with that name teamed up scholars and sportsmen to compete for prizes.)17. Tenir la tête (Gambling slang): To act as judge and arbiter at the tables. (August Le Breton in his L 'ARGOT CHEZ LES VRAIS DE VRAI explains that this 'refereeing' activity is often given to a 'cleaned-out' player by a gambling baron; the position carries a small commission on stakes.) -
26 tirer
I.v. trans.1. To 'nick', to 'pinch', to steal (also: voler à la tire).2. To spend time (and quite a lengthy period) doing something unpleasant. Encore quinze jours à tirer et on part en vacances! Another fortnight's grind and it's 'holidays here we come!' Il a tiré cinq piges de dur: He did five years' porridge.3. En voilà une autre de tirée! (of day, month or year): And that's another one gone!4. Tirer la couverture à soi: To get the most of something for oneself (either kudos or worldly goods).5. Tirer l'échelle: To 'call it a day', to have to give up. Après une connerie comme ça, il n'y a plus qu'à tirer l'échelle! After a boob of that magnitude, there doesn't seem to be any point in going any further! (also: tirer la ficelle).6. Tirer la langue: To be near exhaustion (literally to have one's tongue lolling out through sheer fatigue).7. Tirer les vers du nez à quelqu'un: To 'pump' someone, to winkle information out of someone.8. Tirer un coup: To 'have a bang', to 'have it off', to have coition.9. Tirer un fil (of man): To 'splash one's boots', to 'have a pee', to urinate.II.v. intrans.1. To 'dip', to steal.2. Tirer au cul (also: tirer au flanc or au renard): To 'dodge a chore', to steer clear of hard work.3. Tirer sur la ficelle: To 'go it a bit strong', to exaggerate. (There is a possible parallel with the English 'pull the other one!' retort.)III.v. trans. reflex.1. To 'bugger off', to 'slope off', to go away. Bon, il faut que je me tire, demain je bosse de bonne heure! I'll have to drift, I'm on mornings tomorrow!2. Se tirer d'épaisseur: To get out of 'stuck', to get out of trouble.a To 'have a punch-up', to have a fight.b To have a flaming row.4. Ça se tire! We can see the light at the end of the tunnel! — We're nearing the end! (The expression is usually used when referring to times one is not enjoying.) -
27 vilain
n. m.1. Il va y avoir du vilain! I can see aggro ahead! — There's going to be trouble!2. Jeu de mains, jeu de vilains! (Stern reproof to naughty child): Now then, don't fight! (When used in a different context, the expression is often ironic and jocular, as in the 'keep your hands to yourself' maidenly retort.) -
28 vouloir
v. trans. & intrans.1. En vouloir (of eager young person): To be full of'get-up-and-go', to be raring to achieve something.2. Je veux! (Retort to a question): You bet! — And hAnd how! — Certainly! Partir en vacances avec une bagnole, un peu que je veux! What? Have my own car to go on holiday? You're on!3. Je m'en voudrais! (iron.): Not bloody likely! — Certainly not! -
29 réplique
cue, replica, retort
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