Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts

Friday, March 25, 2011

Mot du Jour: Mouton



Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary © 2005 Oxford University Press:
mouton /mutɔ̃/
masculine noun
Zool sheep;
Culin mutton;
(peau) sheepskin;
(personne) pej sheep péj.
moutons nmpl
(nuages) small fleecy clouds;
(petites vagues) white horses GB, whitecaps;
(poussière) fluff (non dénombrable) .

COMPOUNDS:
~ à cinq pattes rare bird;
~ de Panurge pej sheep péj;
ce sont des ~s de Panurge they follow one another like sheep.
IDIOMS:
revenons à nos ~s (familiar) let's get back to the subject ou point.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Mot du Jour: Cafard (Cockroach)

Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary © 2005 Oxford University Press:
cafard /kafaʀ/ masculine noun
  1. (familiar) depression;
    avoir le ~ to be down in the dumps (colloquial);
  1. cockroach.

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