Strawberry : noun La strawberry is a Red fruit, of which the part edible is a receptacle flourished in mass gain fleshy who wears the achenes.
Go strawberries: be lost.
Go strawberries! : will make you see !
In the popular jargon of the eighteenth century, we called "strawberry", the nipples of women, which gave the
phrase "to go to the strawberries", used jokingly to "go into the woods in gallant company".
(See definition of this expression below).
Go picking strawberries: go into the woods (speaking of lovers), stroll.
Sweeten the strawberries: shake your hands. By extension: to be spoiled, senile (See below).
"To be strawberries": to be sweet.
Sweeten the strawberry, redo the strawberry, powder your nose, apply makeup.
Strawberry: in spring.
Strawberry: figure.
Bring back your strawberry: intervene in a conversation in an inappropriate way. And you, don't bring your strawberry! (See below).
Strawberry Picking Ladder ”: Absurdly complicated way to accomplish a task.
“Go strawberries”: having pants that are too short.
A blow in the middle of the strawberry: in the head. He took a bullet right through the strawberry.
Send someone on strawberries / strawberries: send them for a walk, to be taken for a walk.
Rosy tip of the breast.
Go see if the strawberries are ripe: be deported, go elsewhere.
The expression "Go to the strawberries": To seek a remote place favorable to fornication - To wander aimlessly, to walk around while dawdling.
Why does this expression, which, according to the lexicographer Gaston Esnault (1874-1971), was attested in 1915, have the first meaning proposed? We can see two reasons: the first is that wild strawberries deserve a little; and then the discovery of this greedy object of desire that is the wild strawberry that we are going to be happy to consume can also make one think of these other well-hidden objects of desire that are the genitals, and of "consumption. That we associate with the sexual act.
As for the second meaning, it comes from the analogy with the wild strawberry hunter who has an erratic trajectory.
In some areas, the expression is also used to say "to have too short pants", perhaps because to walk in the wet undergrowth, it is better to pull up your pants if you do not want to soak them.
The expression "Bring back your strawberry": Arrive (speaking of a person) - Show up in an unwelcome manner - Show a pretentious attitude - This slang expression dates from the beginning of the XNUMXth century.
Originally, it meant "to grumble" or "to grumble, then its meaning evolved. In all cases, the strawberry which interests us here is only one of the very many denominations of the head with coffee maker, mug ... or, to stay in the fruits, pear, apple ...
This is why it is easy to understand the first meaning proposed indicating that when a person brings or brings back his strawberry, it is because he arrives or returns.
By extension, someone who intervenes inappropriately in a discussion, for example, gets there and therefore also brings his strawberry back to it.
If we add an ironic connotation (“he brings back his strawberry, but he doesn't know anything about it and he had better keep quiet”), we come back to the pretentious attitude.
An ellipse of this expression is simply bring her back.
This expression does not seem to be attested until the very beginning of the XNUMXth century, but probably dates from the end of the previous century.
Quote from the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Destouches known as Céline (1894-1961) "A con like your zigues if there was a crown to take you would be crowned King of idiots right away." But a little advice, make fun of your strawberry, because one of these four we could well laugh. " in School of corpses -1938.