Plums : noun La plums is the fruit of the plum tree, round or elongated in shape, thin-skinned, colored
variable, juicy, sweet, pleasant to the taste.
For plums: for nothing (speaking of an action, of a useless work).
I bothered for plums: for nothing.
Counting for plums: counting for nothing.
(Not) for plums: for nothing, in vain, unnecessarily, for something of little value (see expression below).
Take care of your plums: take care of your own business.
For chard plums: which does not count, without effect; not for nothing, not in vain
For plum tails: for not much, nothing, in vain.
Not X for plums! : formula aimed at emphasizing the X.
To have / a plum (from hell): to have the form; to have good luck.
Plums ! : No !, nothing to do!
With plums: never.
With plums: next summer.
Plum skin figure: insult.
Plum: ticket, fine.
Plum Eater: Tailor.
Plum de Monsieur: archbishop (allusion to purple clothes).
Monsieur's plum: cannonball (soldiers' slang).
Monsieur's plums: testicles.
Getting a plum stuck: a fine.
Made with plums: arrested or awarded in flagrante delicto.
In the language of prostitution, a plum is a pass. Doing "zero prune" is the expression used by a prostitute to a colleague to tell her that she has no
still happening.
To have your plum: to be drunk, a little drunk.
To split the plum: to laugh, to laugh.
Plum: blow, punch.
Monsieur's plum: archbishop, bishop.
Lead plum: bullet, projectile
Thread plums: do nothing.
Do not make a plum: for a prostitute, do not make a single customer.
Ask a plum: shit, defecate.
Plum: turd.
Plums: balls, testicles, glans.
« The acorn stood, red as a large plum, under the eyes of the young woman »(Guillaume Apollinaire, Les Onze mille verges).
Disgorging the plum (the plums): to ejaculate.
That said, the plum was known in France since antiquity and it is quite likely that this origin is only a legend.
– The expression “to shake the plums” or “to shake like a plum tree”: to shake strongly, to rebuke severely, to reproach sharply.
If the meaning of “shake strongly” is self-evident, that of “rebuff” is a little less obvious. But that's just the figurative sense, considering that someone who's been given a harsh reprimand is completely pissed off. Without forgetting that in the XNUMXth century, the verb had the meaning of “roughing up”.
But why the plum tree? It probably and simply comes from former figured jobs of plums which since the XNUMXth century meant a blow or a wound.
Shake the plums is another different form of the expression in which the tree is replaced by its fruits.
Note that shake the plums can also mean "to come out of one's lethargy, one's apathy to finally activate something". Or in other words to self-shake.