LAISSER (familiar and popular), aller le chat au fromage (obsolete), _is said of a girl who allows herself to be seduced, who loses her rose_; ---- tomber son pain dans la sauce (obsolete), _to manage matters so as to get profit out of some transaction_; ---- ses bottes quelque part, _to die_. The expression is found in Le Roux’s _Dict. Comique_. Laisser fuir son tonneau, _to die_, “to kick the bucket.” See PIPE. Laisser pisser le mérinos, _to wait for one’s opportunity_. Synonymous of Laisser pisser le mouton, a proverbial saying. LAIT, _m._ (thieves’), à broder, _ink_. (Theatrical) Boire du ----, _to be applauded_. A peine le couplet est-il chanté, au milieu des applaudissements payés, que Biétry ... salue ... tous les applaudisseurs ... il n’est pas le seul, ce soir-là, à boire du lait, comme on dit en style de théâtre.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._ LAÏUS (familiar), _speech, or discourse_. Piquer un ----, _to make a speech_. LAMBIASSE, _f._ (popular), _rags_. LAME, _f._ (military), vieille ----! _old chum!_ LAMINE (thieves’), _Le Mans_, a town. LAMPAGNE DU CAM, _f._ (thieves’), _country_, or “drum.” It is the word “campagne” itself disguised in the following way. The first consonant is replaced by the letter l, and the word is followed by its first syllable preceded by “du” (Richepin). English thieves and gypsies have a similar mode of distorting words, termed gibberish; called also pedlar’s French, St. Giles’s Greek, and the Flash tongue. Gibberish means a kind of disguised language formed by inserting any consonant between each syllable of an English word, in which case it is called the gibberish of the letter inserted; if F, it is the F gibberish; if G, the G gibberish; as in the sentence, How do you do? Howg dog youg dog? LAMPAS, _m._ (common), _throat_, or “red lane.” Pour l’histoire de s’assurer de la qualité du liquide et s’arroser le lampas.--=LADIMIR.= LAMPE, _f._ (freemasons’), _drinking-glass_. LAMPIE, _f._ (thieves’), _meal_. From lamper, _to gulp down_. LAMPION, _m._ (thieves’), _hat_; _bottle_; ---- rouge, _police officer_, “copper, or reeler.” For synonymous expressions see POT-À-TABAC. LAMPIONS, _m. pl._ (thieves’), _eyes_, or “glaziers,” see MIRETTES; ---- fumeux, _inflamed eyes_. Des ----! Des ----! _a call expressive of the impatience of a crowd, or rough elements of an audience, and made more forcible by stamping of feet_. LANCE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _water_, or “Adam’s ale;” _rain_, or “parney.” C’est gagné! faites servir! six litres de vin! six litres sans lance!--_Catéchisme Poissard._