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61 enterprise mixte
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62 mixte
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63 demi-molle
n. f. Etre en demi-molle: To be lukewarm about a venture or a course of action. -
64 épingle
n. f.1. Tirer son épingle du jeu: To 'pull out in time', to save one's stakes in a tricky venture.2. Monter quelque chose en épingle: To make a song- and-dance about something, to draw attention to it.3. Etre tiré à quatre épingles: To be 'dressed to the nines', to look a proper fashion-plate.4. Ramasser des épingles (joc. & iron.): To go looking for the 'golden rivet', to practise passive sodomy. -
65 essuyer
v. trans.1. Essuyer le coup: To show one's feelings of disappointment at a setback.2. Essuyer les plâtres: To suffer teething problems in a new venture. (Originally the meaning of the expression was literal and referred to the problems experienced by someone moving into newly-built premises.)3. Essuyer lesplanches (th.): To have the difficult task of 'warming up an audience' at a variety show. -
66 fader
v. trans.1. To 'do in', to kill.2. To punish, to treat severely. Le juge l'a drôlement fadé: He certainly got a stiff sentence from the judge.3. To 'fuck up', to ruin, to make a mess of.4. To give someone his 'whack', his cut, his share in a successful venture. -
67 franco
I.adj. inv.1. Honest, safe, trustworthy. C'est un mec tout ce qu'il y a de franco: He's a bloke you can really trust.2. (of venture): Sure, safe, without risk.II.adv. Without second thoughts, without hesitation. Il faut y aller franco: Let's not beat about the bush! -
68 jaune
I.n. m.1. 'Scab', 'blackleg', person who works after a strike has been called.2. 'Cowardy-custard', funk.3. Cuckold.II.adv. Rire jaune: To 'laugh on the wrong side of one's face', to venture a half-hearted laugh when confronted with adversity. -
69 lessiver
v. trans.1. To 'flog', to sell off cheaply.2. Tout lessiver. To 'spend, spend, spend', to blow the lot, to spend all one's money in a frantic spree.3. Se faire lessiver: To lose all one's money (either in a financial venture or at gambling). -
70 manche
I.n. m.1. 'Burk', 'nincompoop', idiot. Il s'est débrouillé comme le manche qu'il est: He went about it all like the fool he is. Etre dégourdi comme un manche: To be a clumsy oaf.2. 'Prick', 'cock', penis. Avoir le manche: To have 'the big stick', to have an erection. S'astiquer le manche: To 'wank', to masturbate.3. Etre du côté du manche: To be well in with the high-and-mighty.4. Branler dans le mamche (of person or venture): To be 'shaky', to be on the proverbial last legs.5. Tomber sur un manche: To 'come a cropper', to suffer a setback.6. Manche a balai:a Joystick, control lever in aircraft.b 'Prick', 'cock', penis (also: manche à couilles).c 'Beanpole', gawky person.II.n. f.1. Tirer quelqu'un par la manche: To 'buttonhole', to pester someone. Se faire tirer par la manche: To need persuading.2. Avoir quelqu'un dans sa manche: To be 'well in with someone', to be on excellent terms with someone.3. Avoir les jambes en manches de veste: To be bandy, to be bow- legged (also: avoir des jambes Louis XV).4. Faire la manche: To go round begging.5. C'est une autre paire de manches! That's a different kettle of fish! — It's another matter!III.adj. Gauche, clumsy. -
71 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. -
72 massacre
n. m. Un jeu de massacre: A venture where few come out unscathed. (The standard meaning of jeu de massacre is the Aunt Sally stall at a fun-fair.) -
73 parcours
n. m. Venture, undertaking. (The word carries no positive connotation, perhaps because it is generally associated with the parcours du combattant: the obstacle course that recruits have to negotiate with full pack during their army training.) -
74 parti
I.past part. C'est parti, mon kiki! (joc. interj.): That's it! — Off we jolly well go! (This humorous rhyming catch phrase usually punctuates the successful start of a venture or action.)II.adj. 'Sozzled', 'sloshed', drunk. Un peu qu'il était parti à la fin de la noce! He was blind-drunk by the end of the wedding-do! -
75 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. -
76 pied
n. m.1. Faire du pied à quelqu'un: To 'play footsie', to make amorous foot-play advances.a (lit.): To 'skedaddle', to 'scram', to move away niftily.b (fig.): To get out of a scrape in the nick of time.3. S'être levé du pied gauche: To be in a foul mood (because one has got out of bed on the wrong side). Partir du pied gauche (of venture, undertaking): To make a bad start.4. Lever le pied:a To ease off the accelerator pedal, to reduce one's speed in a motor car.b To take things at a more leisurely pace (and let others do the rushing about).c (of shady entrepreneur): To do a 'moonlight flit', to disappear with the takings.5. S'en aller les pieds devant: To 'pop one's clogs', to 'snuff it', to die.6. Faire des pieds et des mains pour¼: To 'try every trick in the book', to worry more about the ends than the means where success is concerned. Il a fait des pieds et des mains pour un petit rôle de rien du tout: For a two-bit part in that play he literally flogged his granny!7. Ça lui fera les pieds! (That will) serve him jolly well right! C'est bien fait pour tes pieds! Well you asked for it, didn't you?!8. Etre bête comme ses pieds: To be 'as thick as two short planks', to be totally stupid. Quel pied! What a nurk! — What a fool!9. Prendre son pied (also: aller au pied): To have a 'come', to experience an orgasm. (The origin of the expression could be sought in the picturesque avoir les pieds en bouquets de violettes which is both descriptive and humorous.)10. Ça, c'est le pied! This is great! — This is fantastic! (In this instance pied has taken a far more metaphorical meaning.)11. En avoir son pied de quelque chose: To be fed up to the back teeth with something.12. Aller au pied (Underworld slang): To 'split the takings', to have a share-out.13. Il y a du pied dans la chaussette! There's no rush! — We've plenty of time! -
77 plonger
v. intrans.1. To 'take pot-luck' in making a decision (literally to take the plunge).2. To enter a venture, legal or otherwise, knowing full well the risks involved.3. To 'go down', to get 'nicked', to be incarcerated. -
78 plume
I.n. m. Le plume: 'The hay', 'the sack', (one's) bed. Pour le tirer du plume le matin, quelle histoire! Getting him off to work in the morning is some task!II.n. f.1. 'Jemmy', crowbar.2. (pl.): Hair. Perdre ses plumes: To be going bald.a To 'go for', to assault someone.b (fig.): To fly at someone, to remonstrate furiously.4. Passer à la plume: To get a 'bashing', a 'belting', to get beaten up.a (of physical altercation): To come out bruised and battered.b (of row, argument): To get lambasted, to come out of it something of a loser.c (of financial venture): To 'lose a packet', to lose heavily. -
79 poche
I.n. m. (abbr. livre de poche): Paperback. Attends que ça sorte en poche, c'est moins cher! I wouldn't buy it in hardback, wait for the cheap reprint! (Strictly speaking, Livre de Poche is a registered tradename but has come to mean any paperback, as has poche.)II.n. f.1. Faire les poches àa quelqu'un: To go through someone's pockets.2. En être de sa poche: To be 'out of pocket', to have had to dip into one's own resources to finance a venture.3. Y avoir été de sa poche: To have had to 'stump up', to have been landed with a bill to pay.4. Avoir quelqu'un dans sa poche: To be sure of someone's total obedience.5. Mettre quelqu'un dans sa poche: To 'beat someone into a cocked hat', to 'wipe the floor with someone', to be more than a match for someone.6. C'est dans la poche! It's in the bag! — It's a dead- cert! —It's a sure thing!7. Connaître quelque chose comme le fond de sa poche: To know something like the back of one's hand.8. Mets ça dans ta poche et ton mouchoir par-dessus! (iron.): Put that in your pipe and smoke it! — That's the way things are (whether you like it or not!). -
80 sortir
I.v. trans.1. To 'boot out', to 'chuck out', to dismiss someone. C'est à coups de pompe au derche qu'on l'a sorti! A few well-aimed kicks up the backside got him out!2. To 'pitch a yarn', to come out with a rather incredible story. Il nous en a sorti de belles! You should have heard what he told us!II.v. intrans.1. To 'stick one's neck out' (where a criminal venture is concerned), to take a risk of some sort.3. D'où sortez-vous? (iron.):a Where were you dragged up?—Haven't you any manners?!b Fancy you not knowing that! (Where have you been all this time?)4. Il n'y a pas à sortir de là! You can't get away from that! — There's no disputing this! Je ne sors pas de là! I'm sticking to that! — You won't get me to shift!5. Merci, je sors d'en prendre! (iron.): Thanks all the same but I've had my lot! — It's the kind of experience I don't want to have again!III.v. trans. reflex. S'en sortir: To 'get oneself out of a tight spot', to escape from a difficult situation.
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