Cabbage : nm Le cabbage is a wild or cultivated plant that has many vegetable varieties.
Beast as a cabbage: simple, easy (to do, to understand), childish.
Enter, bump into someone's cabbage: attack him, kick him
To have it in the cabbage: to be intelligent.
Bout de chou: little child.
Expressions of tenderness: mon chou, mon petit chou (feminine: choute) (darling).
How cute! (or choute), what they are cabbage (nice, cute).
You are a real darling.
My little cabbage in sugar, in sugar.
Breaking the cabbage: breaking your head for something.
To work cabbage: to be crazy.
Have the stuffed cabbage: take the lead, have a headache.
Take the cabbage: irritate, upset someone.
Chou: business or scam that ruins those who brought the funds.
Cabbage leaf: newspaper of little importance, light magazine.
Cabbage leaves: Ears. Have cabbage leaf ears.
Show off: be angry, excited.
Make no mistake: fail in a process for a business, come back empty-handed, find nothing, not find what we expected
Make your own fat out of something: take advantage of it.
To be / to arrive in the cabbages: to be late or the last of the classification.
To fall, to end up in the cabbages: who fails.
Go plant your cabbages: retire to the countryside.
Protect the goat and the cabbage: spare both camps by avoiding taking sides.
Make cabbages and raves: Do as you want, as you want.
Fuck / stuff the cabbage: send yourself a good meal.
Getting into the cabbage: hitting violently or attacking head-on
Cabbage for cabbage: word for word.
He's stupid as hell: he's extremely stupid.
Money, under: I no longer have a cabbage.
Not to be worth a cabbage stalk: to have no value.
Cabbage: result of nasal searches (college jargon).
Colossal cabbage: an enterprise intended to deceive the public with ridiculously enticing promises.
Go cabbage for cabbage: follow the printed copy exactly. In the past, the land in the village of Aubervilliers was almost entirely planted with cabbages which were considered to be better than those in other places. Hence that proverb which is used to equal in some respect two things one of which has been too belittled, or to signify that each thing has a quality which makes it commendable.
Be in the cabbages: said in the newspapers, by the companions who, for one cause or another, fear not to be able to do their freelance. ; not having accomplished the task that a typographer is required to do in a given time, being behind in his work.
Eat cabbages by the cores: be dead and buried.
Cabbage for cabbage: to be sexually satisfied in a homosexual relationship.
The expression "Protect the goat and the cabbage": Maintain conflicting interests.
The verb to household is taken here in the sense of "to treat with respect, not to displease, to take care of", as in to spare the susceptibility.
Awakened spirits or those who seek the little beast will say that in the rather dry places where goats are raised, there are no cabbage crops.
It's true, but what does it matter? When a goat is faced with a cabbage, what does it do? Well, she eats it!
If the two have been so opposed since the XNUMXth century (in the form of knowing how to pass the goat and the cabbage), it is simply to show the difficulty that there is and the skill that it takes for a third person to obtain that the cabbage remains intact and the goat has little protest or, more generally, to satisfy two parties with opposing interests.