Vache

Vache : noun La cow is the female of Taurus.
Rude, bastard. What a cow!
Nasty, severe person who passes nothing, takes revenge or punishes mercilessly.
He was a cow with me: he was hard, ruthless.
This owner's cow; He was a cow like everything to me; she is a cow, his wife.
Cowhide: nasty person. It is real cowhide; it is rather cowhide.
Action, thing: It's cowardly to have done that; a very cowardly criticism.
It's cow! : also said of a setback, of bad luck.
In a weaker sense (speaking of a person we have to complain about): Ah! the cows, they forgot me!
Cow: soft man, good for nothing, who denounces his comrades; man without courage
Cow: soft and lazy person.
Make a bad blow: a dirty blow.
Blow in cow: low blow.
A working cow: important work.
Cow love: where there are more strokes than caresses.
Cow kick: side kick, unpredictable.
To kick, to kick badly: to act as a traitor, hypocritically, against someone.
A cow of time: a bad time; bad weather.
A motorcycle cow: a beautiful motorcycle.
A problem cow: a hell of a problem.
The cow ! : exclamation expressing astonishment, indignation, admiration,
surprise.
Oh damn ! : expression marking astonishment, admiration.
To be as big as a cow, very fat.
Band of cows: insulting a group of people.
My cow: familiar interjection.
In / to the cow: hard, severe; bastard; difficult, hard; insult; vicious, painful; nasty, unfair; wicked, traitor, vicious; as a traitor.
Bad cow: tough and mean person.
Cow wine: milk.
I received one of those blows, cow! The cow ! how beautiful it is !
To howl like a cow: to cry.
Fat cow: too fat woman.
Cowardice: dirty trick, bad trick, nastiness, deviousness.
Eating / eating rabid cow: being reduced to hard deprivation, enduring poverty, living with difficulty, in bad conditions, not earning a decent living, being in a bad financial situation, suffering from social injustice, being unfortunate.
Lean period: when you have no money.
Cow: police officer, town sergeant, security officer; snitch, traitor; judge (insult).
Take the cow by the balls: take things backwards, start at the end.
Cow grass: clover with cards.
Play the cow: laze around. Stay in bed for a long time; drag yourself from place to place without having the courage to do anything.
Enraged cow: beef in brine, boiled beef (in college jargon).
Floor of the cows: soil, earth, dry land. (see origin of the expression below).
Descent to the cows: forced landing.
Go to the cows: crash, land in a field or far from the airstrip.
Not having kept cows together: not being intimate.
A cow would not find her calf there, thought to herself in great confusion.
It fits him like a cow's apron: it suits him very badly.
Everyone has their own job, the cows will be well looked after: everyone minds their own business and everything will be better.
Speak French like a Spanish cow: speak French badly
Rain / fall like a pissing cow: raining very hard.
Cow keeper: peasant woman.
Cow skin: severe, harsh, very strict, unfair, bad person; bastard; term of contempt.
Cow weather: heavy weather.
Red like a cow's tail: yellowish red, dull.
The devil is on his cows: a man pursued by misfortune.
Like a cow watching trains go by: with a passive, stupid look.
Cow on wheels: police biker.
Cow love (for pleasure), where there are more strokes than caresses.
Black / full / drunk like a cow: sated; drunk.
Bend like a cow: painful and soft bandaison.
Smoke like a cow: smoke a lot, emit a lot of smoke.
Girl of the last category; alluding to her huge nipples, her only beauty, and also to her ruminant nonchalance.
- Old cow: Prostitute, woman of bad morals, who gives herself up to the first comer; old woman ; insult or insult to a woman or a homosexual.
- In the middle, it designates the "cow" that is to say the indicator or in general the one who has failed.
- Cash cow: rich man, easy to tax, galore who subscribes to shady shows, prostitute, good deal that pays well; someone who provides for the needs of another; the one who is exploited; Income source ; source of income that is unduly exploited
- To have / to take the cow and the calf: to marry a pregnant woman; abandoned woman with a child; marry a pregnant girl.
- Death to the cows: abbreviated as MAV or three dots tattooed in a triangle on the part between the thumb and the index finger, this hollow part is called the snuffbox.
Slogan against the police; expression against authorities.
Threatening cry (against a homosexual); to death the men of the police! : this formula is also used against judges and police officers.
- The sacred cows: the very large companies listed on the stock exchange.
Other expressions taking again "death to the cows": death to the cows and down the chiourme; death to cows and donkeys; death to the cows, we will hang them, the donkeys.
- Cow's cross: Mark with a knife or razor, but most often with a piece of sugar (notch reputed to be indelible) in the shape of a St. Andrew's cross on the cheek of someone (often a prostitute) to punish him for 'an infidelity or a betrayal.
- To have / to take the cow and the calf: to marry a girl who is pregnant of another.
- Cash cow: gonorrhea.

The expression: “The floor of the cows”: Firm ground.
This expression dates from the XNUMXth century when it was first said the cow floor.
On the old wooden boats, the sailors walked on a floor on which possible encounters with cows, animals of the meadows, were extremely rare.
It is by simple opposition to their own floor, usually located on the water, that they have got into the habit of designating dry land as being this "floor" where the cows are much easier to pass and where it is it's good to come back after a long stay at sea. It was also said in the past: "There is nothing like the bare ground" to indicate that there is much less danger in traveling by land than by sea.

Quote from the French writer Romain Gary (1914-1980): "Happiness is real junk and cowhide" in  The life ahead - 1975 (published under the name of Émile Ajar).

Three quotes from the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Destouches dit Céline (1894-1961):
- " You are never very unhappy that an adult leaves, that is always one less cow on earth, that you say to yourself, while for a child, it is all the same less certain. There is the future."In Journey to the End of the Night  - 1932.

- "It is unfortunate that they remain so cows with so much love in reserve, people" in Journey to the End of the Night - 1932.

- "They would like to kill me, my emulators, even my little students, by sorrows, by nasty words, make me perish under the bites of a plethora of cockroaches, under the venoms of an atrocious proliferation of frighteningly rogue aspics , martyrivores. But my cowhide protects me, so far I have survived. " in School of corpses -1938.

See as well Cow (slang synonyms).