sharp eye_, with respect to judging of distance or quantity; ---- le front dans le cou, _to be bald_, or “stag-faced;” ---- le nez creux, _to be clever at foreseeing, guessing_; ---- le pouce long, _to be skilful, to be_ a “dab” _at something_; ---- le trac, _to be afraid_, “funky;” ---- les calots pochés, _to have black eyes_; ---- les côtes en long, _to be lazy_, a “bummer;” ---- l’estomac dans les talons, dans les mollets, _to be ravenous_, _very_ “peckish;” ---- l’étrenne, _to be the first to do, or be done to, to have the_ “wipe of;” ---- le sac, _to be wealthy_, or “well ballasted;” ---- mal au bréchet, _to have the stomach-ache_, or “botts;” ---- mal aux cheveux, _to have a headache caused from overnight potations_; ---- mangé de l’oseille, _to be sour-tempered, peevish_, or “crusty;” ---- sa côtelette, in theatrical language, _to obtain great applause_; (popular) ---- sa pointe, _to be slightly tipsy_, “fresh;” ---- son caillou, _to be on the verge of intoxication_, or “muddled;” ---- son coke, _to die_; ---- son cran, _to be angry_, “to have one’s monkey up;” ---- son pain cuit. Properly _to have an income, to be provided for_. The expression is old. Vente, gresle, gelle, j’ai mon pain cuit. =VILLON.= (Also) _to be sentenced to death_; ---- son sac de quelqu’un, _to be tired of one_; ---- un coup de marteau, _to be cracked_, “queer;” ---- un fédéré dans la casemate, or un polichinelle dans le tiroir, _to be pregnant_, or “lumpy;” ---- un poil dans la main, _to feel lazy_; ---- un pot de chambre sous le nez, _to have an offensive breath_; ---- un rat dans la trompe, _to feel irritated_, _provoked_, _exasperated_, “badgered;” ---- une chambre à louer, _to be eccentric, even to insanity_; “to have apartments to let;” _to be minus one tooth_; ---- une crampe au pylore, _to be blessed with a good appetite_, or “twist;” ---- une table d’hôte dans l’estomac, _to have an extraordinary appetite_; ---- vu le loup _is said of a girl who has been seduced_. En ---- la farce, _to be able to procure a thing_. Pour deux sous on en a la farce, _a penny will get it for you_. En ---- sa claque, _to have eaten or drunk to excess_, _to have had a_ “tightener.” Avoir une belle presse _is said of an actor or author who is lauded by the press_.