Pig : not. and adj. Un cochon is a mammal of the order Artiodactyla and more especially, the porc high for thefood (most often castrated unlike the boar).
Person who is dirty or who messes up. What a pig!
A big pig ou An old pig, Or just a pig which designates a perverse person.
An individual who has a taste for obscenities or who tells filthy stories. (It's an old pig).
Big, fat, dirty as a pig.
Eat like a pig: Eat dirty, very dirty or in a voracious way, outside the common rules.
To have a bad luck: to be very lucky.
Playing a dirty trick on someone: doing them a dirty trick. He played a dirty trick on her.
Pig work: shoddy work, poorly done.
Write like a pig: write dirty.
To be as skilful as a pig with his tail: to be very clumsy.
To be buddies like pigs: to be great buddies, very good friends.
Getting along like pigs in the fair: people who get along very well, support each other.
Not having kept the pigs together : Said when two people have not known each other for a long time, and therefore cannot have familiar behaviors (such as the use of familiarity).
We did not keep the pigs together: no familiarity between us.
Ask yourself if it's bacon or pork: have a great doubt.
Pig's eyes, small and close together.
It's giving pigs jam : to give something beautiful to someone who is unable to appreciate it.
Breaking his pig : breaking the bank (to pay for something good / good).
He has the head of a pig: he has a bad temper, he is very stubborn: What a pig character!
What a pig of time! : what bad weather.
It fits him like silk stockings to a pig : It doesn't suit him at all, it has the worst effect on him.
Bad weather: terrible weather.
Sick pig: messy and unhealthy person.
Take care of your pig: take care of your body with regard to food.
Pig weather means gloomy weather. This term would come from the fact, that formerly, the salting of bacon was done ideally in cold and humid weather.
Pig who gives up: expression meaning the firm side in the conclusion of a market as 'word of honor'.
In the pig, everything is good except the cry : Expression which indicates that all the parts and pieces of the pig have a utility, culinary or otherwise. As for the cry, it is one of the most powerful and unpleasant in the animal world. A pig's cry for distress can reach up to 115 decibels.
Variant : All is good in the pig, expression attributed to the gastronome Brillat Savarin.
The little pigs: in the entertainment industry, the little pigs are all the vices that drag down a career: sex, drugs, money, alcohol, ... You will go far, if the little pigs do not eat you.
Pig: police officer (Quebec).
The expression " pig movie " is used to designate a pornographic film.
Books, films, dirty drawings (pornographic).
A dirty story (licentious).
Pig eyes (saucy). Rude, immoral person.
Full drunk as a pig: dead drunk.
It's not dirty: it's successful, excellent, it's not bad.
It's pig : said of excellent food (a dessert very often), that we would eat until we were no longer able.
Treat or treat your pig: eat a lot; live well, enjoy yourself; offer to drink.
To have a pig-like air: to have wide eyes and a voluptuous mouth.
In every man there is a dozing pig: every man is ready to have a sexual adventure.
The expression "Give jam to a pig ”: it is to give something to someone who does not deserve it, who does not know how to appreciate it or who does not have any gratitude for it - to spoil something.
"Do not throw your pearls to the pigs, lest they trample on them and turn around and tear you up."
Quote from Éric Orsenna, French academician on the occasion of the release of his book Pigs. Journey to the Land of the Living in October 2020: “The man is quite jealous of the pig. The pig ejaculates almost half a liter of semen when we can barely fill a teaspoon ”.
Excerpt from the film's dialogue The Crossing of Paris (1956) by director Claude Autant-Lara (1901-2000):
The German commander showing pieces of pork:
– I also see that you are studying still life.
Grandgil (painter embodied by Jean Gabin):
– You know what they say, Monsieur le Commandant: In every Frenchman there is a sleeping pig. And in every man perhaps?
– Quote from the American writer John Fante (1909-1983): “I hate the common dirty pigs around me who scream for their share of a sick joy that belongs to me alone” in the novel Ask the dust (1939)
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