Carrot : noun La carrot is a vegetable plant cultivated for its fleshy root rich in carotene, sugar and vitamins.
To pull someone's carrot: to extort money from them by artifice.
The carrots are cooked: all is over, lost. There is no more hope. (cf. It is the end of beans).
(This expression comes from the fact that the carrot is the last vegetable to be cooked in the cauldron. When the carrots were cooked, everything was cooked and we could sit at the table). See History of this expression below.
Vicious ball that falls very close to the net (sport).
Car made up.
The carrot or the stick: the incitement or the threat (by allusion to the donkey which one does not advance except by blows of stick or by handing him a carrot).
To walk with the carrot: to act while being pushed by the greed, however illusory.
Having carrot indigestion: being pregnant.
Small swindle, deception, deception (gave the verb carotter).
To draw someone's carrot: to skillfully extract something from him Carrot red, Carrot hair: red, person with red hair: carrot color: have carrot hair.
Pull the carrot: be a flank.
Tied like a carrot (of tobacco): dressed very tight.
To have a carrot in the lead: to be hoarse.
To live only on carrots: (aged) to live sparingly.
Pulling a carrot: asking for money under a false pretext.
Carrot in length: big request, subtle request.
Living on carrots: living by being fooled.
Carrot in the lead: One who is hoarse or has a broken voice has a carrot in the lead.
To have a carrot in the lead: said of a singer who makes a quack or sings out of tune, in the backstage slang; to have foul breath, in the slang of the suburbs.
Stringy carrot: carrot pulled in length, but unclear as to explanations. Allusion to an old carrot full of filaments, which is not easily digested.
Carrot in length: a skillfully forged story.
Carrot: fiery red. Hair color reminiscent of carrot tones, a very fashionable color during the 1868s, 69s and 70s. Women had their hair dyed "fiery blond", before applying "rancid butter" dye.
Carrot: asking for money under a false pretext. Deception. Lie.
Carrot: lie. The soldier has the reputation of taking it away from his parents to get money. There are legendary ones and rifles: when he tells that he has lost his leader, or breaks the front of the band, lost the key to the field of maneuvers, that he will pass to the council if he does not. has no money to replace them
To have your carrots cooked: to be close to death.
Carrots: cars with makeup.
The carrot: sign of (bar) tobacco.
Beef and carrots: the font of the fonts.
To be carrot: to be had.
Shitting carrots: being constipated.
Play the carrot: play in a petty way, with very little risk
Dip your carrot: make love.
A bit later, live only on carrots meant "to live very poorly." This pejorative value linked to the carrot remained and, at the end of the XNUMXth century, to have your carrots cooked said to himself to "be dying", but without knowing exactly why this association of the soon to be dead with these cooked vegetables. Still, it is this notion of carrots that mark a hopeless state, where we can no longer do anything, that has come to us.
The phrase "the carrots are cooked, I repeat, the carrots are cooked" was used, like many others, as a code on London radio to trigger actions or operations by the Resistance in the territories occupied by Germany during the Second World War.
Quote from the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Destouches dit Céline (1894-1961): “I will reveal everything to you! What you are never told, never told to children. It's not since yesterday, it's since Charlemagne that everything is going so badly in Europe. Since Charlemagne, our carrots are cooked, annealed, returned, returned to the boil. " in School of corpses -1938.
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