Faire du lard, _to sleep_; _to stay in bed late in the morning_; ---- du suif, _to make unlawful profits, such as those procured by trade assistants who cheat their employers_; ---- faire à quelqu’un blanc de sa bourse, _to draw freely on another’s purse_, _to live at his expense_, “to sponge” _on him_; ---- flanelle, _to visit a brothel with platonic intentions_; ---- godard, _to be starving_; ---- la place pour les pavés à ressort, _to pretend to be looking for employment with a secret hope of not finding any_; ---- la retape, or le trottoir, _to be a street-walker_; ---- l’écureuil, _to give oneself much trouble to little purpose_; ---- le plongeon, _to confess when on the point of death_; _to be ruined_, “to be smashed up;” ---- mal, _to excite contemptuous pity_. Tiens, tu me fais mal! _well, I pity you!_ _I am sorry for you!_ Faire passer le goût du pain, _to kill_, “to give one his gruel;” ---- patrouille, _to go on night revels with a number of boon companions_, “to be on the tiles.” Quatre jours en patrouille, pour dire en folies bachiques.--_Cabarets de Paris._ Faire peau neuve, _to get new clothes_; ---- petite chapelle _is said of a woman who tucks up her clothes_; ---- pieds neufs, _to be in childbed_, or “in the straw;” ---- pleurer son aveugle, _to void urine_, “to pump ship.” See LASCAILLER. Faire saluer le polichinelle, _to be more successful than others_. An allusion to certain games at fairs, when a successful shy brings out a puppet-head like a Jack-in-the-box; ---- sa Lucie, or sa Sophie, _to play the prude_, _to give oneself conceited or disdainful airs_; ---- sa merde, or sa poire, _to have self-satisfied, conceited airs_; _to take up an arrogant position_; _assuming an air of superiority_; _to be on the_ “high jinks;” ---- sa tata _is said of a talkative person, or of one who assumes an air of importance; of a girl, for example, who plays the little woman_; ---- ses petits paquets, _to be dying_; ---- son Cambronne, _an euphemism for a coarse expression_, “faire sa merde” (which see); ---- son lézard, _to be dozing during the daytime_, like a lizard basking in the sun; ---- un bœuf, _to guillotine_; _to give cards_; ---- suer, _to annoy_; _to disgust_. Ainsi, leur politique extérieure, vrai! ça fait suer depuis quelque temps.--=ZOLA=, _L’Assommoir_. Faire un tassement, or un trou, _to drink spirits in the course of a meal for the purpose of getting up a fresh appetite_, synonymous of “faire le trou du Normand;” ---- une femme, _to succeed in finding a woman willing to give her favours_; ---- son fendant, _to bluster_; _to swagger_; _to look big_. Ne fais donc pas ton fendant, “come off the tall grass!” (an Americanism). Faire une entrée de ballet, _to enter a room without bowing to the company_. En ---- son beurre, _to put to good use, to good profit_. Et, si ton monsieur est bien nippé, démande-lui un vieux paletot, j’en ferai mon beurre.--=ZOLA=, _L’Assommoir_.