Onion : noun THEonion is a vegetable plant similar to garlic (family of liliaceae), biennial, edible bulb.
Stand in an onion row: in a row, one after the other, stand in line.
To have onion or to have the onion that goes: to be lucky.
Money: have only a few onions in your pocket.
Mind your own business: mind your own business and not those of others (see expression below).
It's for my onions: it's for me.
Take care of yourself: treat someone very carefully.
Onion race: chasing something
Onion field: cemetery.
In a row of onions: in a row, on a single line (see expression below).
To have been arranged with the small-onions: to have been defrauded.
Formerly an onion was a watch, alluding to its shape.
With small onions: executed with care; with special care; very good.
Mind your business: mind your own business, mind what concerns you.
There is onion: Things are going badly, business will take a turn for the worse.
There is onion: There is mayhem (allusion to the tears that the onion causes to shed).
It's not (it's not) my / your onions. : This is not my / your business.
Peel the onions: scold, reprimand.
Catch the onion: at the coffee shop, pay the bill for the others.
Boredom, difficulty, setback.
Onion: horn on the foot.
Figure of peeled onion: insult.
Name of an onion soup! : interjection.
By the head of an onion! : interjection.
Give a pump in the onion: kick the ass.
Small onions: testicles.
In slang from the world of prostitution, the onion is the anus.
Anus, behind. Pan, in the onion!
You can put it in the onion: you can put it in your ass.
Fart higher than you have onion: be pretentious, pretend you're worth more than you're really worth.
"Square something in the onion": put something in the foundation.
Get it right: don't do something someone else asks for.
- The expression: "In a row of onions": On a single line, in a row.
A traditional explanation wants that this expression comes to us from the XNUMXth century when, in Blois, officiated a master of ceremonies, Artus de la Fontaine-Solaro, baron of Onion, who liked to arrange his small world according to precise rules of protocol. Our phrase would have arisen from there.
But it turns out that line up onions, in 1611, meant "to integrate into a company where one has no place" or "to take place in a meeting where one is not invited".
And moreover, quoted by Littré, Leroux de Lincy, linguist of the XIXth century, writes about our row of onions: straw, placing the largest first, and then the others? »It would not be until 1654, more than half a century after the Baron d'Oignon (which would eliminate the origin which is linked to it), that the expression would also have taken the current meaning, the preceding one continuing to be used for at least another century.