ATTAQUE, d’----, _resolutely, smartly_. Un homme d’----, _a resolute man_, _one who is game_. Etre d’----, _to show energy, resolution_. Y aller d’----, _to set about anything with a will, smartly, as if one meant business_. (Popular) D’attaque, _violent_, _severe_. V’lan! v’là l’vent qui m’fiche eun’claque. Fait vraiment un froid d’attaque. =RICHEPIN.= ATTELAGE, _m._ (cavalry), un bon ----, _a couple of good friends_. ATTENDRIR (familiar), s’----, _to have reached that stage of intoxication when one is_ “_maudlin_.” ATTIGER. See ATIGER. ATTIGNOLES, _f. pl._ (popular), _tripe à la mode de Caen_ (tripe stewed with herbs and seasoning). N’importe où nous nous empâtons, D’arlequins, d’briffe et d’rogatons, Que’qu’fois d’saucisse et d’attignoles. =RICHEPIN.= ATTRAPAGE, _m._ (familiar and popular), _severe scolding_, _sharp criticism_, _quarrel_, _fight_, “mill;” (military) ---- du premier numéro, _serious duel_. ATTRAPE (popular), à te rappeler, _mind you remember!_ ATTRAPER (popular), _to scold_, “to jaw;” ---- l’oignon, _to receive a blow intended for another_; _to have to pay for others’ reckoning_. S’----, _to abuse_, _to_ “slang” _one another_. Se faire ----, _to get scolded, abused_, “blown up.” Attraper le haricot, or la fève, _to have to pay for others_. An allusion to one who finds a bean in his share of the cake at the “fête des rois,” or Twelfth-night, and who, being proclaimed king, has to treat the other guests. (Journalists’) Attraper, _to sharply criticise or run down a person or literary production_; (theatrical) _to hiss_, or “goose;” (actors’) ---- le lustre, _to open wide one’s mouth_; _to make a fruitless attempt to give emission to a note_. ATTRAPE-SCIENCE, _m._, _printer’s apprentice_, or “devil.” ATTRAPEUR, _m._ (literary), _a sharp or scurrilous critic_. ATTRIMER (thieves’), _to take_, to “nibble;” _to seize_, to “grab.” ATTRIQUER (thieves’), _to buy_; _to buy stolen clothes_. ATTRIQUEUR, _m._, ATTRIQUEUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _receiver of stolen clothes_, “fence.” AUBER, _m._, _a sum of money_, “pile.” A play on the word “haubert,” _coat of mail_, _an assemblage of_ “mailles,” _meaning_ “meshes” or “small change.” Compare the expression, Sans sou ni maille. AUMÔNE, _f._ (thieves’), voler à l’----, _stealing from a jeweller, who is requested to exhibit small trinkets, some of which, being purloined, are transmitted to the hand of a confederate outside who pretends to ask for alms_. AUMÔNIER, _m._ (thieves’), _a thief who operates as described above_. AU PRIX OÙ EST LE BEURRE (familiar), _at the present rate of prices of things in general_. AURE, or HAURE (thieves’), le grand ----, _God_. AÜS, _m._ (shopmen’s), _perplexed purchaser who leaves without buying anything_. AUSTO, _m._ (soldiers’), _guard-room_, _cells_, “Irish theatre,” “mill,” or “jigger.” AUTAN, _m._ (thieves’), _loft_, _attics_ (old word hautain, high).