COUCHER (popular), à la corde, _to sleep in certain low lodging-houses with the head resting on a rope stretched across the room_, a “twopenny rope;” ---- dans le lit aux pois verts, _to sleep in the fields_. Se ---- bredouille, _to go to bed without any supper_. Se ---- en chapon, _to go to bed with a full belly_. COUCOU, _m._ (popular), _watch_. COUDE, _m._ (popular), lâcher le ----, _to leave one, generally when requested to do so_. Lâche moi le ----, _be off_, _leave me alone_. Prendre sa permission sous son ----, _to do without permission_. COUENNE, _f._ (popular), _skin_, or “buff;” _fool_, or “duffer;” ---- de lard, _brush_. Gratter, râcler, or ratisser la ----, _to shave_. Gratter la ---- à quelqu’un, _to flatter one_, _to give him_ “soft sawder;” _to thrash one_. Est-il ----! _what an ass!_ COUENNES, _f. pl._ (popular), _flabby cheeks_. COUILLÉ, _m._ (popular), _fool_, _blockhead_, “cabbage-head.” COUILLES, _f. pl._ (popular), avoir des ---- au cul, _to be energetic, manly_, “to have spunk.” COUILLON, _m._ (popular), _poltroon_; _foolish with the sense of abashed, crestfallen_. Il resta tout ----, _he looked foolish_. The word is used also in a friendly or jocular manner. COUILLONNADE, _f._ (popular), _ridiculous affair_; _nonsense_. COUILLONNER (popular), _to show cowardice_; _to shirk danger_. COUILLONNERIE, _f._ (popular), _cowardice_; _nonsensical affair_; _take in_. COUINER (popular), _to whimper_; _to hesitate_. COULAGE, _m._, COULE, _f._ (familiar), _waste_; _small purloining by servants, clerks, &c._ COULANT, _m._ (thieves’), _milk_. COULANTE, _f._ (thieves’), _lettuce_. (Cads’) LA ----, _the river Seine_. COULE, _f._ (popular), être à la ----, _to have mastered the routine of some business_, _to be acquainted with all the ins and outs_; _to be comfortable_; _to be clever at evading difficulties_; _to be insinuating_; _to connive at_. Mettre quelqu’un à la ----, _to instruct one in_, _to make one master of the routine of some business_. COULER (popular), en ----, _to lie_, “to cram one up.” La ---- douce, _to live comfortably_. Se la ---- douce, _to take it easy_. COULEUR, _f._ (popular), _lie_; _box on the ear_, or “buck-horse.” Monter la ----, _to deceive_, “to bamboozle.” Etre à la ----, _to do things well_. COULEUVRE, _f._ (popular), _pregnant or_ “lumpy” _woman_. COULISSE, _f._ (familiar), _the set of_ coulissiers. See this word. COULISSIER, _m._ (familiar), _unofficial jobber at the Bourse or Stock Exchange_. As an adjective it has the meaning of _connected with the back scenes_, as in the phrase, Des intrigues coulissières, _back-scene intrigues_. COULOIR, _m._ (popular), _mouth_, or “rattle-trap;” _throat_, or “peck alley.”