Sugar Plum : noun A lozenge is a confectionery formed of a almond, An hazelnut, etc., coated with sucre hardened.
Bullet or projectile: send, receive a dragee. He took a dragee in the middle of a pear.
Hold the dragee high to someone: he doing payer dear what he asks; he doing feel its power (see explanation of this expression below).
Rasibus the dragee: bald.
To prick the dragee: to get drunk.
To swallow the dragee: to die.
Nose (thug jargon).
To prick the dragee, to get drunk.
Ball (jargon of the troops). Dragees that are distributed at baptisms of fire.
Hold high on someone: make him pay dearly for what he asks; make him feel his power.
Pink dragee: clitoris.
The expression: "Hold the dragee high (to someone)": Make someone wait a long time before granting his request to show him the power that we have over him.
This expression dates from the XNUMXth century. Two schools clash as to its origin.
The first simply makes the connection with an old children's game where they had to grab a treat hanging from a thread. Whoever held the thread and lifted it as he pleased to keep the kids from grabbing the candy too easily had some form of power over them.
The second also comes from a treat, but intended for horses this time.
The dragee was a bunch of green fodder, a mixture of wheat and buckwheat, a delicacy which these equines loved but which they should not abuse.
To train the horse and teach it to control its gluttony, these sugared almonds were placed high in its rack, out of reach. And it was then distributed to him sparingly.