Jar : noun Un can is a container de household, intended mainly for contain liquids et foodstuffs.
It's in the old pots (cooking pots) that we make good soups: old people, old things have precious qualities.
Meeting around a drink, especially in a professional community (cocktail).
Pay / take a drink: pay / have a drink.
Invite someone to a drink. Make a farewell drink.
A tobacco pot: a man or a woman runs on legs.
Full pot: giving all the power (of a motorized machine).
Drive at full speed (at full throttle, at full throttle).
In the figurative sense: paying full price, full price (a full price ticket).
Luck, luck: to have the pot (see the origin of the expression below).
A shot of the pot. Lack of pot! : No chance. No pot!
Paying for the broken pots: paying for mistakes, nonsense.
Dry a pot: empty a glass.
To be deaf like a pot: completely deaf.
To discover the pot aux roses: that is to say to discover a truth which had been concealed.
Beating around the bush: seeking an advantage in a roundabout, insidious way
At the fortune of the pot: simply; without ceremony
It is the earthen pot against the iron pot (it is France from below against France from above, for example).
It's the doldrums: (the doldrums is an extremely difficult navigation area). The expression designates something confused, not very explicit.
In two (three) spoonfuls (do something easily, quickly).
Belgian pot: expression resulting from doping in professional cycling to designate a mixture of doping products.
Mustard pot: behind, buttocks.
Jam jar: drum.
Pot of strawberries: attractive person.
Posterior, behind (butt): to handle the pot.
Break the pot: sodomize with violence.
- The expression "To the fortune of the pot": At the origin, the word fortune referred to “the fate”. Be in good fortune first meant "to be lucky" then "to have luck, therefore success with women. Thus, in the 17th century, "good fortunes" were the favors that women granted to their lovers, a fortune being a gallant encounter. This form became more specialized in the XNUMXth century, designating the successes obtained by prudish women.
In the 18th century, the pot hanging in the hearth contained the dish of the day. A visitor could therefore, depending on his "fortune", come across a succulent or infamous dish, but, his hosts not having been able to prepare for it, he was invited to the right place. frank. Hence the expression at pot luck which, nowadays, always with this idea, also has a connotation of warm welcome and human warmth.
– The expression “Le pot aux roses”: What was kept secret (most often because it was dishonest).
Ah, this beautiful pot in which the evening meal is slowly cooking!
The indirect way of proceeding has, by extension and only in the XNUMXth century, given the second meaning, which this time applies to someone who uses devious means to express themselves, who does not dare to approach a subject frankly.
– The expression “The doldrums”: Oceanic area little appreciated by sailors due to the weather conditions prevailing there. The doldrums is this area of the oceans located near the equator and where the trade winds from the tropics converge. This place, with very unstable weather, is characterized by frequent formation of cumulonimbus clouds and under which violent storms rage. There does not seem to be a certain explanation for the origin of the name of this area. But at the end of the 17th century, in a game similar to bobwhite, when the person who was blindfolded risked getting into trouble, he was told to "beware of the doldrums", because he risked making himself a Black meaning "hump" at the time.
It is by extension that doldrums would have designated, at the end of the 19th century, a tangled, dangerous situation.
This name was also used by airmen around 1930 to designate a storm area without visibility.