Core : nm Un core is what remains of a fruit, of a vegetable, when the edible part has been removed.
Head, skull.
Face, face: a funny core.
Break the core: break your head while thinking.
Go straight ahead: risk your head.
To suck the core: to kiss, to kiss.
Unscrew the core: strangle.
Small man, small woman.
My little core : affection term designating a child, a young girl.
Cute : What they are cores!
To be had to the core: to the end, totally, completely (to the bone).
– Quote from the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, known as Céline (1894-1961): “The old woman gesticulates, tears herself away…Angèle grabs her again full of blood!…She is going to turn her over, head down…ring her core…” in the novel Guignol's band. (1952)
– Quote from the American writer John Fante (1909-1983): “This magazine is something, I said. the greatest of all. – It’s rotten. Rotten to the core. » in the novel Ask the Dust (ask the dust) (1939).