Haricot : noun THEbean is a leguminous herbaceous plant, native to Central America, whose pods and seeds are edible.
Running / banging on someone's bean: annoying him, annoying him. It starts to run me on the bean (see below).
Running on the bean expresses exasperation, annoyance. Dated 1892, this expression may have been influenced by "running on the system", the bean being able to refer to the toe or perhaps the penis. We also say "peel the bean", "hit the bean", "trot on the bean" (see below).
Working for beans: for next to nothing.
Beans ! : Nothing !
It is the end of beans : the end of everything, all is lost. This other and ancient phrase on the bean originated in colleges and universities where food was frugal (see below).
Being housed at the Beans sign, that is to say in a bad inn, is a slang expression of the 1867th century cited by Alfred Delvau in his Dictionary of the Green Language (XNUMX).
Beans, life. (Céline in "Voyage to the end of the night").
Walking on someone's beans: walking on his feet.
To catch the bean: to take a blow intended for another.
Make someone's bean: tear it to pieces.
Bean: receptacle in the shape of a bean, intended to collect vomiting, sputum or small waste (compresses, etc.) (hospital jargon).
Go eat beans: go to jail.
Hôtel des haricots: city prison (where beans are eaten).
Soak his bean: soak his penis, make love.
To have / to put the bean in the door: to bend, to be erect.
Bean: Clitoris.
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The expression Running / Slapping on the bean / the system: Annoying, annoying, exasperating.
The shape with système, which appeared shortly after the second half of the XNUMXth century, is seen as an ellipse of run / hit the nervous system, image where we consider the one who excites the nervous system of another or who "gets on his nerves".
On the other hand, the second form is much discussed by lexicographers: this bean must be considered according to its slang meanings, the toe, the head, the penis or even the testes, but did these meanings influence the birth of the expression? Nobody knows. So we will not also eliminate the possible influence of the verb bean which, during the first half of the XNUMXth century, meant "to annoy" in slang. The presence of run probably comes from the XNUMXth century when running someone already meant "to annoy him", perhaps because the word also meant "to frequent assiduously" and someone who runs like this can greatly annoy him.
The phrase "The end of the beans": The end of everything - The complete loss of hope.
This is a recent expression, since it dates from the beginning of the XNUMXth century, but the origin is obscure.
Two explanations among others:
- Before the advent of television, board games were more than a common occupation. In the family, the bets were not made with money, but with various things including dried beans. And when a player ran out of beans, it was really the end of it all for him, since he was kicked out of the game.
And, for the latter, when they did not even have the money to buy these starchy foods, it really became the end of everything.
Quote from the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Destouches dit Céline (1894-1961): “Now it's over, well over, I open it as I want, where I want, my big mouth, when I want. Don't break the bean. " in School of corpses -1938.