Broth : noun Un broth is a liquid dans lequel certaines substances et ingredients have boiled.
Water, rain, bath (marinate in its broth); dirty water.
Drink a broth: jump into the water, swallow water while swimming (drink the cup).
Take a famous broth: significant loss of money.
Rain. Broth that heats up. Cloud that will burst.
It will fall from the broth, to say a downpour.
Drink the broth: go bankrupt.
Bad operation. Allusion to the mouthfuls of water which suffocate a drowned person.
In the fig sense, he drank a famous broth: to suffer a considerable loss as a result of bad speculation
In print, the stock is all the unsold items of a publication.
Unsold copies of a newspaper. In some newspapers the broth is taken up again; in others it remains in the merchant's account. Return the broth, return the unsold copies
Formerly, a broth was a kind of garnished (studio) where a criminal lived.
Fat broth: vitriol.
Veal broth: absinthe.
Sharp broth: enema, sodomy.
Eleven o'clock broth: potion or beverage poisoned, poison, last meal served to death row inmates.
Drink the eleven o'clock broth: pass from life to death.
Eleven o'clock broth: Poisoning; by allusion to the famous broths administered by Brinvilliers and which she called "a pistol in broth."
Have someone drink eleven o'clock broth, poison someone.
Blind broth: fatty broth which is not sufficiently fatty, of which the eyes cannot be seen.
Hot broth: semen, when it is introduced into the woman's vagina.
Duck broth: water. My throat never gets wet with duck broth.
Sharp broth: sodomy; sperm enema: double allusion to the enema and its contents.
Pointed broth: bayonet shot.
But why eleven o'clock (in its non-elided form in use at the time)? This remains mysterious, but the writer Claude Duneton (1935-2012) gives an explanation which seems to hold water: if we admit that it is eleven o'clock in the evening, therefore the last hour of the day (midnight marking the start of the next day), we are dealing with a pun between the last hour of the day and the last hour of the convicted person.