Turnip : nm Le hub is a plant of Asian origin cultivated for its edible roots.
Have turnip juice / blood (in the veins): anemic, lacking in energy, courage, fighting spirit.
Bad painting (crust) or worthless work of art.
Dupe, sucker.
It's a turnip: null, without any interest, very bad (speaking of an artistic work, and particularly of a film).
Turnip essence: insult.
Turnips ! : No ! Nothing to do.
(Term of refusal in the jargon of the thugs who also say: medlars!)
To rack your brains: think, rack your brains.
The turnip field: the cemetery.
A field of turnips: a newspaper where silly articles are written (Barbey d'Aurevilly).
Field of turnips: square of a cemetery formerly reserved for the remains of those sentenced to death or square of the tortured.