Mouton : noun Le mouton is a ruminant mammal with a woolly, curly fleece, domesticated to provide wool, meat, and milk.
He is a sheep, a credulous and passive person, who is easily led or fooled (Let himself eat, shear wool on his back).
Five-legged sheep: nobody, extremely rare thing
Looking for the five-legged sheep: looking for the impossible.
Curly like a sheep: very curly.
Sheep: piles of dust resembling sheep's wool that circulate under beds and furniture.
Soft as a sheep: very soft.
Count sheep (to fall asleep).
Black sheep: annoying or unwanted person in a group
Rabid sheep: usually peaceful person who suddenly gives in to violent anger.
Sheep: person whose behavior and opinions are modeled on those of those around him.
Sheep: snitch, informant, in police jargon; prisoner who spies and denounces his companion, his fellow prisoners.
White sheep: in the children's song It's raining, it's raining shepherdess:
It's raining, it's raining Shepherdess
Bring in your white sheep
Let's go under my cottage
Shepherdess, quickly, let's go.
Sheep of Panurge: Individual without will, docile, someone who follows others.
(The story of the sheep of Panurge, character of Francois Rabelais, is a denunciation of the stupidity that can accompany the gregarious instinct of the species) See below.
It is also used to highlight the fad or group thinking.
Dust flake under the bed: sweep / vacuum the sheep.
Let the sheep pee: let it go; not to worry; do not have bad blood, let go of things; be patient, wait for the opportunity, wait for the time to come, for the case to be ripe, let it be said, let it be
Let's come back to our sheep (allusion to the Farce of Master Pathelin): let's come back to our subject, put an end to these digressions.
Lead like a sheep: Lead someone as they please, obediently, without rebellion.
Feel the shoulder of mutton: feel strong armpits.
Sheep: spy; cellmate that the police give to a detainee, with the mission of provoking his confidences and reporting them to justice.
Intermediary, the one who put in relation, or who keeps in relation between them, the people of the environment.