Veal : nm Le veal and the small full cow, during his the first année, whether male ou female.
Dumbass, lazy.
To do the calf: to be in a slumped attitude.
Bad horse.
Calf's head: bald; crazy; fool.
No longer have parsley on the calf's head: bald.
Calf: heavy and slow car.
The golden calf: golden idol worshiped by the Hebrews: Adoring the golden calf: worshiping money (see below for the origin of this expression).
Fat calf: stupid; insult; null, term of contempt; insult; fool, person without energy.
Calf: Whining like a calf: crying profusely, whining, whining, (complaining, shouting)
Howling like a calf / x: shouting loudly; bawl.
Cry of calf being slaughtered: howl.
To bitch like a calf: to bitch, to be unhappy, to grumble.
Kill the fat calf: prepare a meal, a feast.
Head of veal ; Have a calf's head that has little or no hair.
Military condemned to a public works sentence: they are left with beards but their heads are shaved.
Sentenced to public works (beard and mustache holder).
Calf's head: senior officer.
Fall like a calf: collapse, fall.
In soft veal: comparison of what is soft, without vigor.
Stillborn calf: drunk woman.
Take the cow and the calf: marry a woman pregnant with another; abandoned woman with a child; marry a pregnant girl.
With veal: false, null, worthless, bad.
Calf child: insult.
Calf slack: sagging and withered breasts.
Calf: gourgandine, daughter of the last category, - no doubt in allusion to its insipid flesh, more adipose than muscular, more lymphatic than bloody, which does not give the slightest appetite.
Morné calf: drunken woman (morné is for stillborn).
Calf: public woman; any young girl almost cow, woman of barrier, prowler of barracks;
Quote from the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Destouches dit Céline (1894-1961) “He was nodding like that, like a calf without a mother. He was shaking his huge ears. He reveled in making me suffer! He was a sadist, of course… ”in Trivia for a massacre.
Quote from French President Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) just before his resignation on April 28, 1969: “The French are calves. Calves are made to be eaten. I don't want to stay at the head of the calves. I'm out ! ".
– The expression “To adore the golden calf”: to love money, material goods.
In 1170, we were talking about golden veil, which became the golden calf at the end of the XNUMXth century.
But what was this golden calf? We have to go back to Moses, when he went to the top of Mount Sinai and did not return. The bored Hebrews, assuming that Moses would not return, asked Aaron to make them a god. This one sank a young golden bull. When Moses finally returned, and saw the return of idolatry among his people, he became angry and only obtained forgiveness from his God by having three thousand of the guilty massacred.
The golden calf first became the symbol of idleness. At the end of the XNUMXth century, it still designated a man who has no other merit than to be rich (Dictionnaire Littré), meaning forgotten today. It was at the same time that the expression "To adore the golden calf" appeared, retaining only the notion of wealth in connection with gold.