ça y est. — It's ail over; or, simply, there
48. Si! si! — The affirmative si, yes, or si fait, yes indeed, ia mnch Btronger than oui. Hence it is used âfter a négative statement, or after a contradiction, as iu this case.
49. // me plante là. — Planter W is a very familiar expression, that moanâ to leave in the lurch, in the difficnlty, to eut ; as. Il m'a planté là tans cérémonie, — He lefl me without any ceremony. Such trivial or famUiar words are always indicated in the large dictionary of Spiers and Surenne by IT or d^; so that it is left to the discrétion and taste of any one how often and when to nse them. They are of constant remtmtc» in «yery French conversation, of wbich French c«mediee ar«
çenerally a very natnral and faithful picture. It is this natnral:ae8B oi dialogue, this reproduction of k very-day speech, that makes the reading of French plays 80 profitable to the student who wishes to becomâ acquaintei with those ever-recurring idioms and peculiarities, which are in reality the only difficolties after the ^ranunaticâl éléments hare been acquired
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