Faire son temps, _to undergo a full term of imprisonment_; ---- sauter la coupe, _to place, by dexterous manipulation, the cut card on the top, instead of at the bottom of the pack_, termed by English card-sharpers “slipping;” ---- suer un chêne, _to kill a man_, “to cook his goose.” See REFROIDIR. Faire sur l’orgue, _to inform against_, “to blow the gaff;” ---- un coup à l’esbrouffe, _to pick a person’s pockets while hustling him_, “to flimp;” ---- un coup d’étal, _to steal property from a shop_. A shoplifter is termed in English cant “buttock and file;” ---- un coup de fourchette, _to pick a pocket by delicately inserting two fingers only_; ---- coup de roulotte, _to steal property from a vehicle_; ---- un rancart, _to procure information_; ---- une maison entière, _to break into a house and to massacre all the inmates_; (artists’) ---- chaud, _to use warm tints in a painting, after the style of Rembrandt and other colourists_; ---- culotte, ---- rôti, _comparative and superlative of_ faire chaud; ---- cru, _to use crude tints in a picture_, for instance, to use blue or red without any adjunction of another colour; ---- cuire sa toile, _to employ very warm tints in the painting of a picture_; ---- transparent, _to paint in clair obscur, or “chiaro oscuro;”_ ---- lanterne, _to exaggerate the “chiaro oscuro;”_ ---- grenouillard or croustillant, _to paint in masterly, bold, dashing style, with_ “brio.” The expression is used also in reference to the statuary art. The works of the painter Delacroix and those of the sculptor Préault are executed in that style; ---- sa cimaise sur quelqu’un. See CIMAISE. Faire un pétard, _to paint a sensational picture for the Salon_. The _Salomé_ of H. Regnault, his masterpiece, may be termed a “pétard;” ---- des crêpes, _to have a grand jollification_, or “flare up;” (freemasons’) ---- feu, _to drink_; (theatrical) ---- feu, _to lay peculiar stress on words_; (mountebanks’) ---- la manche, _to make a collection of money among the public_, or “nobbing;” (popular) ---- à la redresse, _to set one right_, _to correct one_; ---- danser un homme sur une pelle à feu _is said of a woman who freely spends a man’s money_; (familiar and popular) ---- brûler Moscou, _to mix a large bowl of punch_; ---- cabriolet, _to drag oneself along on one’s behind_; ---- cascader, see CASCADER; ---- de cent sous quatre francs, _to squander one’s money_; ---- de la musique, _to make audible remarks about a game which is proceeding_; ---- de la poussière, _to make a great fuss_, _to show off_; ---- de l’épate, _to show off_. Ces jeunes troupiers font de l’épate, des embarras si vous aimez mieux.--=J. NORIAC.=