Je vous fais mon compliment. — I congratulate you

12. Vous en voila quitte pour la journée. — You are safe now for the day. For the différence between jour and journée, matin and matinée, &c, see Lafaye, Dictionnaire de Synonymes.

13. Non bis in idem. — A Latin proverbial expression usually employed in the sensé : No man can be tried a second time on the same charge. Hence, it is used with the meaning of " Lightning n-ever strikes twice in the same place," or the same thing will not occur again.

14. Que le four chauffe pour moi. — That something is brewing for me. In the Middle Ages the common oven {four banal) belonging to the feudal lord was used in turn by his dépendants ; hence ce n'est pas pour vous que le four chauffe meant the oven is not being prepared for you, or it is not your turn to bake bread, now used by extension in speaking of a person's turn for doing any thing, generally something disagreeable. The expression may sometimes be translatée!, thèse things are not for you, we are not working l'or you.

15. Je fis l'esprit fort. — I played the sceptic. For this use of faire, see XXX., 16. Esprit fort generally means free-thinker.

16. Plus fort qu'on ne V aurait attendu. — Louder than could hâve been expected. For this use of ne, see Grammar, p. 293, § 14.

17. Voila la danse qui va commencer. — Now the fun is going to begin. Entrer en danse is familiarly used, especially among soldiers, in the sensé of beginning an enterprise, entering upon a battle ; as. notre régiment entra le premier en danse, it was our régiment who began or opened the dance, who got into action first. Commencer or mener la danse means to be the first to do or suffer something disagreeable.

18. Je n'ai presque plus de souvenir net. — I hâve hardly any other distinct recollections.