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a sieve,” ‘you will sift it.’ est... , “Why, he’s d-iron man’
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qui me &êne, ‘which is in my way.’ ñ
Permettez, ‘excuse me.’
qui me donne, ‘which bears.’
mais d’un Juteux, ‘but,
tive used substantively, and with an adjective such as remarquable, étonnant, or the like, understood. And it is for this rsason that the indefinite article is used,
18, ‘you will put it through
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Je cherche un biais, ‘lm waiting for a
literally ‘I am seeking an expedient. ?
14. là-bas, ‘yonder,' ‘there.’ That is, to his excavations in the garden. Là-bas expresses no idea of descent. Note the phrases: à bas/ ‘down with !’, en bas, ‘below,’ ‘down. stairs,
14. Ça embaume Je romain, ‘it smells delightfully of Roman antiquities.” He has said before ça sent Le romain ; now
he wishes to make his expression still stronger.
good chance,’
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fait courir, ‘is spreading abroad,'
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bout, ‘bit,’ ‘ picce,”
animal, ‘brute.’
là, ‘here.’ Quite frequent in this sense.
il est des injures, ‘there are insults” J{ ext ir used for the more usual 5/ ya.
un mot might here be translated by ‘a few words." Mot has often the meaning of ‘ phrase, ' ‘expression,’ etc,
Tu n'y penses Pas ! ‘Can you think of such a thing !”, “You must be joking !’
Je veux .... monde, ‘I will make everybody read it."
Il s'agit... vétérinaire, : My reputation, my honour 48 à Veterinary surgeon, is at stake. Note the phrases : de quoi s'agit-il?, ‘what is the trouble ?’; voici dont ii s’agit, ‘this is the point’; 5 s’agit de savoir ce qu'il a fait, ‘the point is to know what he has done’; il s'agit de sa vie, ‘his life is at stako.’
état, ‘profession, practice,’
le sieur Machut, : Mr. Machut.” The legal and official term for monsieur.
nous allons... Chatfinet, ‘we shall see now what sort of a face Mr. Chatfinet will make.” Note the position of words in the relative clause. This inversion takes place after such words as que, où, etc., particularly when the subject is longer than the verb.
Ça n'y fait rien, ‘That makes no difference.’
redingote, ‘frock-coat.’
quelle idée ! ‘what an idea (occurs to me) !”
Coup de sang, ‘apoplectic fit” Used humorously here in speaking of the mare. Coup is used in a large number of phrases, as for example : coup de dent, ‘bite’; coup de pied, ‘kick’ ; coup de poing, ‘blow with the fist,’ ete. ete.
Norss,
Pourvu qu’, ‘I hope that.’
elle vous &ènera, ‘it will be in Your way.’
Sa. That is, the taking off his coat.
Pour reprendre la lettre, ‘to get the :etter back again.
Pourvu .... qu’. Seel. 16.
je suis tranquille, ‘I am Casy (on that score).’
il leur... entorse, This Passage, like 50 many others in the play, is Comedy pushed to the verge of the absurd.
Allons, bon ! ‘Have You, indeed !’
était = here aurait été,
Et dire, ‘And shall it be said,”
Cocotte. The name of the mare. Fairl ÿ common in this usage.
Hein ! plaît-i] ® “What did you say, please ?’
Va done! ‘Do go on !”
Je veux bien, moi! ‘AI right, l’Il do it !”
mamzelle, The manner of spelling which represents the colloquial fashion of Pronouncing mademoiselle.
Si! ‘Yes, it is (worth the while)” Si js used, in reply to negative expressions, for the purpose of strongly con-
se Sauvant, ‘running off.’
Un eoup de brosse. ‘TA brush it a bit,’
Aïe! usually expresses pain,
chance, ‘luck.’
quelle émotion ! ‘how excited I am !”
chiffre, ‘monogram.”
Fabius Cunctator. À famous Roman general, of greet prudence, called Cunctator, the ‘delayer,’ on account of the tactics Pursued by him in struggling with the Cartha. ginians under Hannibal during the second Punic war,
Norss.
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faisant de gros Yeux, ‘looking furiously.?
