HACHER DE LA PAILLE (popular), _to murder the French language_. The English have the corresponding expression, “to murder the Queen’s English.” Also _to talk in German_. HALEINE, _f._ (familiar), à la Domitien, cruelle, or homicide, _offensive breath_. According to the _Dict. Comique_ it used to be said of a man troubled with that incommodity: Il serait bon trompette, parcequ’il a l’haleine forte. (Popular) Respirer l’---- de quelqu’un, _to get at one’s secrets_, “to pump” _one_. HALÈNES, or ALÈNES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _thieves’ implements_, or “jilts.” Alène signifies properly _shoe-maker’s awl_. HALER SUR SA POCHE (sailors’), _to pay_, “to shell out.” Haler, properly _to haul_, _to tow_. HALLE, _f._ (popular), aux croûtes, _stomach_, or “bread-basket.” Also _baker’s shop_. La ---- aux draps, _the bed_, “doss, or bug-walk,” and formerly “cloth-market,” an expression used by Swift in his _Polite Conversation_:-- Miss, your slave; I hope your early rising will do you no harm; I find you are but just out of the cloth-market. (Journalists’) La ---- au son, _the Paris Conservatoire de Musique, or national music and dramatic academy_. (Bullies’) Un barbise de la ---- aux copeaux, _a bully whose paramour brings him in but scanty profits, whose “business” is slack_. HALLEBARDE, _f._ (popular), _tall, badly dressed woman_, a “gawky guy.” HALOT, _m._ (popular), _box on the ear_, “smack on the chops.” HALOTER QUELQU’UN (thieves’), _to box one’s ears_, “to smack one’s chops;” _to ply the bellows_. HALOTEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _one who uses bellows_; _one who blows_. HALOTIN, _m._ (thieves’), _bellows_. From haleter, _to pant_. HANCHER (popular), se ----, _to put on a jaunty look_; _to take up an arrogant position_, _to be_ “on the high jinks,” or to “look big.” HANE, _f._ (thieves’), _purse_, “skin,” or “poge.” Termed also “henne, bouchon, morlingue, mornif.” Il va comme la tramontane, Après avoir cassé la hanne De ce grand né qui prend le soin De lui donner chasse de loin. _L’Embarras de la foire de Beaucaire._ Casser la ---- à quelqu’un, _to steal someone’s purse_, “to buz a skin.” HANNETON, _m._ (familiar), _monomania_. Avoir un ---- dans le plafond, _to be cracked_, or “to have a bee in one’s bonnet.” See AVOIR. Saoul comme un ----, _completely drunk_, “as drunk as Davy’s sow.” “Davy’s sow.” The origin of this expression, according to Davies’ _Supplementary English Glossary_, is the following:--“David Lloyd, a Welshman, had a sow with six legs; on one occasion he brought some friends and asked them whether they had ever seen a sow like that, not knowing that in his absence his drunken wife had turned out the animal, and gone to lie down in the sty. One of the party observed that it was the drunkest sow he had ever beheld.” Other synonymous expressions are, “drunk as a drum, to be a wheelbarrow, sow-drunk, drunk as a fish, as a lord, as a piper, as a fiddler, as a rat.”