Marmite : noun A cooking pot is a container of metal, rather high, provided with a cover and generally of handles (or ears), which formerly had three feet, in which one boils water, cooks food.
Ugly woman.
Boil the pot: earn a living, earn money and provide the family with what to eat, earn what to eat, what to live on; ensure the subsistence of the whole family or the maintenance of a household.
Grease the pot: live well: eat well.
To overturn one's pot: to die; no longer keep the table open.
The pot is overturned: there is nothing left to eat.
The black flag flies over the pot: there is nothing to eat, lack of money. This expression would be from the French actor Jean Gabin (1904-1976) when he wanted to resume his acting profession after the war. It is widely used by the dialogue writer Michel Audiard (1920-1985) in his films.
During the First World War, "pot" referred to German shells. It seems that it was originally applied only to projectiles with a caliber greater than 105 mm. By extension, he ended up designating all artillery shells.
Exhaust (motorsport jargon).
To have enough of it: to have enough.
The best soups are made in old pots: old people and old things have precious qualities.
Stuff or load the pot: use doping products (sports jargon).
Skim the pot (s): plunder, grabbing everything that is profitable or interesting.
Cooking pot: when a woman cheats on her husband with his consent.
Marmite: prostitute financially helping her pimp.
Copper pot: prostitute who brings in a lot.
Iron pot: prostitute who earns little.
Pot of earth: prostitute who does not earn money for her pimp.
"Time is not a scythe that he has, it is a sort of ladle and a monster pot, he fucks everything in it, he rocks, he has fun tampering with his obscene marmalade, that everything mixes up, confuses gets tangled up, stuck ”(Céline in Damn sighs for another time).