Decks : noun In the kitchen, a board is a play de wood (now in plastic) plane, a which large et usually little thick , promising sert à cut the foodstuffs.
Soap the board: Use dishonest methods towards someone to delay or fail what he undertakes (see the expression below).
Bread or ironing board: woman without breasts.
Have your work cut out for you: have a lot of work ahead of you.
Have work to do: be rich and not worry about the next day, have savings, have money in front of you.
Breadboard: thin woman or shapeless girl, thin individual, tall (and thin) man. This chick is a real breadboard!
Breadboard: bench for defendants, defendants, bench for defendants at the Assize Court (formerly the guillotine).
– The synonymous expressions “Soap the board and Slide a banana peel”:
To use dishonest methods towards someone to delay or fail what he undertakes.
Those who once laughed during game shows like the TV show Intercity during which the participants had to pass without falling on a soapy board know that such a passage is extremely slippery and quite surely leads to a fall.
A sneakily dropped banana peel also has a high chance of causing you to crash into the ground.
We are therefore dealing here with simple metaphors where the end of the board or that of your trajectory corresponds to the end of the task in which you are strongly involved, and where the soaped area or the banana peel are traps set by someone. 'one who wishes you harm and intended to prevent you from reaching the goal you have set for yourself or have been set for you.
– The expression “a lifeline”: A last means – Use a means that allows you to escape a very serious boredom or a disaster.
the word hello comes from latin salute, accusative of salus which meant something in good condition, in good health, whole. It also means "life". Salvation therefore corresponds first of all to what makes it possible to preserve the integrity of something or someone, or, indirectly, to save it. which makes it possible to understand that a “salvation board” is first and foremost a board that allows someone to stay alive. And it is from the image of the castaway that the first expression comes to us at the beginning of the XNUMXth century. But in the sixteenth century, the word board alone had already taken on the same figurative meaning as that expression. By extension, a lifeline is more generally a means of escaping a disaster and staying alive. now that the origin of the two expressions is clear, let's go back briefly to our meaning of the word Hello. You may not have known it, but considering the origin of the word, when you greet someone, you are actually wishing them to stay alive or stay healthy.
But this initial meaning being generally forgotten, the salute is simply seen as a mark of politeness, respect or deference such as it is found in the military salute, a gesture which finds its distant origin in the fact that the knight raised the helmet fan to greet someone.