Tire-larigot (à): “Á tire-larigot” is an expression that familiarly qualifies the fact of drinking a lot.
In the XNUMXth century, the writers Ronsard and Rabelais were already using it. The origin of the expression "tire-larigot" would come from the name of the Rigault, a bell of the cathedral of Rouen, very hard to set in motion, and whose ringers often drank, and a lot, to give themselves strength. , hence the expression drink à tire la Rigault (by the way is also known the expression drink com...
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