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Jetez-vous, ctc., a lively idiom for ‘to give up

7. Ware, literally, ‘tide,’ is also used for what comes with the tide, that is to say, ‘ fresh fish.’

32. Aux vingt-cinguiémes, a lively exaggeration. Not the king's

table nor the second table, but the twenty-fifth.

. 32. Jeter son bonnet par-dessus les moulins, generally means, ‘to

commit extravayances,’ ‘to defy Mrs. Grundy.’ Here, however, it seems to have a somewhat different sense, and to mean to ‘take the risk.’

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