Grain : noun Un grain and the fruit edible of grasses or other product like the grain of coffee.
Be in the grain: not miss anything.
Have a grain of it: being slightly crazy, he is not very well in his head (a grain of madness).
Crush a grain: take a glass of wine, alcohol.
Have your grain: First degree of drunkenness.
To have a grain: to be a little crazy.
Have your grain: have your account (alcohol, wine)
To have, to give grain to grind: something to think about, to get busy.
Put on, mix your two cents: intervene, interfere inappropriately (in a conversation, a business).
Watch out for grain: be careful, watch out for any eventuality.
Break the grain: have a snack, eat a piece.
Mechanical rice grains: lice.
Separate the straw of words (the form) and the grain of things (the background, the substance), (Leibniz's formula).
Crush a grain: drink a glass of wine, sometimes the bottle.
Break a grape: drink a glass of wine.
Coffee bean: clitoris
Shake your coffee bean: fiddle with yourself.
– Quote from the American writer of German origin Henry Charles Bukowski (1920-1994): “Say, kid,” I said, “you must have a grain of it. And your mother lets you run free like that? " In the novel The postman.
– Quote from the American writer John Fante (1909-1983): “Something told me she had a grain of it; Maybe it was just a poke in the nose that she got, but it was the same for me. » in the novel Ask the Dust (ask the dust) (1939).
Here is a beautiful marine metaphor which dates from the first half of the XNUMXth century.