Argot and slang : $b a new French and English dictionary of the cant words, quaint expressions, slang terms and flash phrases used in the high and low life of old and new ParisBarrère, Albert
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Argot and slang : $b a new French and English dictionary of the cant words, quaint expressions, slang terms and flash phrases used in the high and low life of old and new Paris
Barrère, Albert
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La ---- à quelqu’un, _to deceive_, “to bamboozle” _one_. Faut pas m’la
faire! may be rendered by “I don’t take that in;” “no go;” “not for
Joe;” “do you see any green in my eye?” “Walker!”
Vas-tu t’ taire, vas tu t’ taire,
Celle-là faudrait pas m’la faire,
As-tu fini tes façons?
Celle-là nous la connaissons!
_Parisian Song_.
La ---- à, _to seek to impose upon by an affected show of some feigned
sentiment_. La ---- à la pose, _to show off_; _to pose_.
J’ pense malgré moi à la gueule dégoûtée que f’rait un
décadent, ou un pessimiste au milieu de ce méli-mêlo.... Y
nous la f’rait diantrement à la pose.--=TRUBLOT=, _Cri du
Peuple_, Sept., 1886.
La ---- à la raideur, _to put on a distant manner_, _to look_ “uppish.”
La ---- à l’oseille, _to treat one in an off-hand manner_; _to annoy
one_, or “to huff;” _to play a scurvy trick_; _to exaggerate_, “to come
it too strong.” According to Delvan, the origin of the expression is
the following:--A certain restaurant keeper used to serve up to her
clients a mess of eggs and sorrel, in which the sorrel was out of all
proportion to the quantity of eggs. One day one of the guests exclaimed
in disgust, “Ah! cette fois, tu nous la fais trop à l’oseille!”
(Popular) Se ---- caramboler _is said of a woman who gives her favours_.
Elle sentit très bien, malgré son avachissement, que la
culbute de sa petite, en train de se faire caramboler,
l’enfonçait davantage ... oui, ce chameau dénaturé lui
emportait le dernier morceau de son honnêteté.--=ZOLA=,
_L’Assommoir_.
Se ---- relicher, _to get kissed_.
Ah! bien! qu’elle se laissât surprendre à se faire relicher
dehors, elle était sûre de son affaire.... Dès qu’elle
rentrait, ... il la regardait bien en face, pour deviner
si elle ne rapportait pas une souris sur l’œil, un de ces
petits baisers.--=ZOLA=, _L’Assommoir_.
S’en ---- éclater le péritoine, or péter la sous-ventrière, _to eat or
drink to excess_, “to scorf.” Tu t’en ferais péter la sous-ventrière,
or tu t’en ferais mourir, _expressive of ironical refusal_; _don’t you
wish you may get it?_ or, as the Americans have it, “Yes, in a horn.”
Se ---- baiser, or choper, _to get abused_; _to be apprehended_. See
PIPER. Se ---- la débinette, _to run away_, “to guy,” “to slope.” See
PATATROT. La ---- belle, _to be happy_; _to lead a happy life_. Faire
des petits pains, du plat, or du boniment, _to eulogize_; _to try and
persuade one into complying with one’s wishes_; (military) ---- suisse,
_to drink all by oneself at a café or wine-shop_. The cavalry maintain
that infantry soldiers alone are capable of so hideous an offence;
(printers’) ---- banque blèche, _to get no pay_; (Sodomists’) ---- de
la dentelle, the explanation is furnished by the following quotation:--
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