En juillet le déménagement est une fête. Mais en octobre, n, i, ni, c’est fini de rire: le déménagement est funèbre et s’appelle le décanillage à la manque.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_. DÉCARCASSÉ, _adj._ (theatrical), _is said of a bad play_. DÉCARCASSER (popular), quelqu’un, _to thrash one soundly_, “to knock one into a cocked hat.” See VOIE. Se ----, _to give oneself much trouble_; _to move about actively, fussily_. Décarcasse-toi donc, rossard! _look alive, you lazy bones!_ Se ---- le boisseau, _to torture one’s brains_; _to fret grievously_. DÉCARRADE, _f._ (thieves’), _general scampering off_; _departure_. DÉCARRE, _f._ (thieves’), _release from prison_. Décarrement, _m._ (thieves’ and popular), _escape_. DÉCARRER (thieves’), _to leave prison_; _to run away_, “to guy.” See PATATROT. On les emmène tous et pendant ce temps-là le gueusard décarre avec son camarade.--=VIDOCQ.= Also _to come out_. Nous allons nous cacher dans l’allée en face, nous verrons décarrer les messières.--=E. SUE.= Décarrer à la bate, _to escape_; ---- cher, _to be released after having done one’s_ “time;” ---- de belle, _to be released without trial_; ---- de la geôle, _to be released on the strength of an order of discharge_. DÉCARTONNER (popular), se ----, _to grow old_; _to grow weak_. DÉCATI, _adj._ (popular), _no longer young or handsome_; _seedy, faded_. Elle a l’air bien ----, _she has a faded, worn appearance_. DÉCATIR (popular), se ----, _to get faded, worn, seedy_. DÉCAVAGE, _m._ (familiar), _circumstances of a gamester who has lost all his money, or who has_ “blewed” _it_. From décavé, _ruined gamester_. DÉCEMBRAILLARD, _m._, _opprobrious epithet applied to Bonapartists_. An allusion to the coup d’état of the 2nd December, 1851, when Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, then President of the Republic, threw into prison dissentient members of parliament and generals who refused to join in the conspiracy, shelled the boulevards, shot down hundreds of harmless loungers, and transported or exiled 50,000 republicans or monarchists. DÉCEMBRISADE, _f._, _an act similar to the coup d’état of 2nd December, 1851_. See DÉCEMBRAILLARD. DÉCHANTER (popular), _to recover from an error_; _to be crestfallen after one’s illusions have been dispelled_; _to come down a peg or two_. DÉCHARD, _m._ (popular), _needy_; _man who is_ “hard up.” DÈCHE, _f._ (popular), _neediness_. Etre en ----, _to be_ “hard up” _for cash_; “to be at low tide.” DÉCHEUX, _m._ (popular), _needy man_, “quisby.” DÉCHIRÉE, _f._ (popular), elle n’est pas trop ----, _is said of a woman who is yet attractive in spite of years_. DÉCHIRER (military), de la toile, _to perform platoon firing_; ---- la cartouche, _to eat_. See MASTIQUER. (Popular) Déchirer son faux-col, son habit, son tablier, _to die_. (Ironical) Ne pas se ----, _to have a good opinion of oneself and to show it_. DÉCLAQUER (popular), _to open one’s heart_; _to make a clean breast of_.