tab : nf The paws are atanimal, articulated limbs or appendages which supports the body, is used for walking.
Locution: Stomach, belly on legs (or on legs): person who has an insatiable appetite.
– Hand (paluche, patoche). Get your filthy paws out of here! Hands off !, don't touch it, don't touch me.
Come on, fat pig, get your hands off!
– Leg: drag the leg; in the figurative sense: to show bad will.
break a leg: break a leg
Not standing on one's feet: being weak.
To go somewhere on foot, on foot.
To be low, short on legs: to be short in stature
Having a crazy leg: limping slightly.
To have hair on the legs: to be hairy, virile.
He is a heart on legs, a very generous person.
Figuratively: A paw is a skillful hand.
To have the kick of paw, to have paw: speaking of a painter, to be skilful.
We recognize his touch: his touch, his personality.
A swipe: a malevolent dart that is fired at someone in passing.
To have a wire in the paw: to have a problem, an obstacle.
To grease someone's paw: to corrupt him
Get back on your feet: get out of a bad business without damage.
Having your legs full: being tired after a long walk; enough (full of boots).
Make a velvet paw: be delicate.
Show white paw: show an agreed sign of recognition, say the password necessary to enter somewhere.
Getting into someone's paws: getting tricked by someone.
Fall into someone's hands. To go out, to get out of someone's paws, to escape them, to regain one's independence.
Slipping between someone's paws: escaping him.
To shoot someone in the paws, to cause him difficulties, to oppose slyly.
The expression “to grease the paw”: To bribe (someone) – To give money (to someone) to obtain a favor from them.
In this expression, which dates from the XNUMXth century, the paw is only ever the animal version of main who will receive the money. Moreover, in the XNUMXth century, it was said anoint the palm. For a long time, the concept of gras is associated with that of profit. Indeed, isn't a fat man a symbol of the one who can eat well, therefore the one who has money?
Grease is here a metaphor which marks the ill-gotten profit, as in the old expression, with the form very close to ours, fatten (someone's) hands where fat also symbolizes corruption or illicit gain.