Break : v. tr. To break up, to break something.
To eat. The word dates from the XNUMXth century. We say, in common parlance: "To have a bite to eat", to have a bite to eat.
To break the crust, the seed: to eat.
Break from the beak: smell bad from the mouth
To break grain: to disobey (thieves' jargon).
Breaking the sugar to the redhead: denouncing an accomplice.
To break the pot: to ruin oneself, to condemn oneself to misery by irresponsible behavior (jargon of pimps for whom women are pots).
Break the neck of a bottle: empty a bottle in the blink of an eye.
Break a rabbit's neck: eat a rabbit.
Break: crumple a bag of candy while preparing it (confectioner's jargon).
Break the piece. : confess.
Breaking sugar on someone's back: slandering it, denouncing it.
To break: to speak badly, by abbreviation of breaking sugar.
Break the neck of a negress: empty a bottle.
Break the neck of a bottle: Empty a bottle in the blink of an eye. - When they are in a hurry ... to drink, and for lack of a corkscrew, drunkards break the neck of the bottle, this is what they call: "Guillotine the negress." "
Break the bottle: popular expression dating from 1885; it is to want to give importance, to inflate, to make oneself as big as the ox… and not to succeed.
Break your egg: miscarry.
Snack: eat lightly while waiting for a more substantial meal. Slang of the bourgeois
Proverbs:
- You can't make omelets without breaking eggs: you have nothing without sacrifices, without violence.
- Whoever breaks the glasses pays them: whoever causes damage must repair it.