Honey : nm Le miel is a syrupy and sweet substance, amber in color, that bees develop in their crop with the nectar of flowers or other vegetable matter.
To be all honey; all sugar all honey: make very sweet.
Sweet, honeyed; melliflu.
Make your honey out of something, use it profitably. He makes his honey from the difficulties of his rival (See below the origin of this expression).
It's a honey: it's good, it's fun, very pleasant.
A little bit of gall spoils a lot of honey: a slight sorrow poisons the liveliest joys.
No honey without gall: no pleasure in displeasure.
Drinking honey: appreciating certain words.
To smear with honey: to gain someone's trust.
Honey bar: good, good
Honey cage: ear.
Honey, to put it mildly for shit.
Honey: cyprine.
It's a honey: it's good, it's fun, very pleasant; and ironically, it's ugly, boring, disagreeable.
Honeymoon: the honeymoon is called a "honeymoon" (See the origin of this expression below).
Quote from Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, known as Céline in "Mea Culpa": Their agony? It's honey! A treat! I want some ! I proclaim that I have enjoyed it all!...
The expression "Honeymoon": The first stages of marriage - The honeymoon trip - A good understanding between two parties.
In the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries, the honeymoon referred to the months following marriage, a necessarily happy period when it was desired by both parties, and is a symbol of love. It therefore has the first meaning proposed.
According to some, the expression is simply a literal translation from English honeymoon. According to others, it would have a pagan origin, when formerly in Babylon, it was customary for the father of the bride to offer his son-in-law, during the whole month following the wedding, as many piss (honey-based beer) that he could absorb.
And since the calendar was based on the lunar cycle, what should have been called the honey month became the honeymoon. Nowadays, this expression is used either to designate the honeymoon which, generally, directly follows the marriage, or, by extension, to designate a period of very good understanding between two people or two political parties for example.
Others suggest that this honeymoon comes from a custom whereby the groom applies honey to the bride's lips and then comes to lick it (honey is a very healthy product with anti-bacterial properties) , but it also serves to ensure that the bride is sufficiently lubricated, for the first time.
The expression "Make honey (from something)": To profit (from something).
Did you know that bees are vile profiteers? They exploit poor defenseless flowers, without even asking their permission, and remove the nectar and pollen that they then bring back to their hive to make this honey that we feast on.
If we forget that then it is the man who cowardly plays the profiteer by collecting this honey, we can say that the bees take advantage of the flowers to "make their honey".
Here, you should not see the profit under the purely pecuniary aspect which one often associates with the word, because it can just as well be physical or intellectual. If the date of appearance of the expression does not seem precise, we find writings of the sixteenth century which already compare the behavior of those who know how to profit from certain things to that of bees and their honey.