Do : v.tr. Realize outside oneself (a material thing).
Do it to sorrel (la): make a joke in bad taste, make a bad load, make fun of someone.
Make a ball: be hungry.
To make a fuss: to miss a woman.
Cook your lobster: blush with emotion or something else. We also say "cook your crayfish". Synonymous with pricking his far.
To lose fat: to make love.
Make pancakes: have fun as it is traditional to do at Mardi-Gras (artists' slang).
Make waffles: kiss between pockmarks.
Making Buns: Courting with Touching
Making buns: making manners. Put on mysterious airs to chat with someone, say nothing to them, and appear to be talking about interesting things. To court a woman is to bake buns.
Make drunkards, force-feeds: rob drunkards. The variant is: give it to Father François. The thieves shake the drunkard asleep on a bench.
Make fried carp eyes: go around the eyes like people swoon.
Make herring eyes: put out someone's eyes (thieves' slang).
Make bacon: sleep; lounging in bed. Go and cook some bacon. Go to bed.
To make tallow: to cheat (Greek jargon).
Make fire: drink (slang of the Freemasons, who have cannons for glasses).
To burn teeth: to eat greedily. (XNUMXth century.) A very picturesque image that is no longer used today.
To play the eye of carp: to play the apple of a languorous air, to light, either the men when one is woman, or the women when one is man.
Make the big deal: murder (thieves' slang).
Make the tail of cervelas (prison slang). The condemned man with more than a year of prison undergoes his sentence in a central house, where during the hours of walk he is forbidden to sit and speak. They follow each other in single file, circling the courtyard: this is what they call deer-tailing.
Play the turtle: fast. We know the sobriety of the turtle.
Make the houndstooth: pout by moving the lips forward and pressing them.
Make the leek: wait a long time for someone, if the person does not come, the one who waits is planted there to become green again.
Passing on the taste of bread: killing someone. We also say "lose the taste of bread", to die.
Ground pepper: knock someone down several times by letting them fall as heavily as a pestle.
Make a pear: make manners, speaking of a woman who hesitates to let herself be fucked. Never find anything good; imagine being above everything and everyone. Be difficult.
Pop the plug: jerk off a man, or fuck with him (which, naturally, causes sperm to ejaculate).
Make his fat cabbage with something: make it his delicacies, arrange it.
Making your own barley: making illicit profits.
Make your own money: earn money.
Make Switzerland: drink alone.