Water : noun Colorless, odorless, transparent and tasteless liquid when pure.
Fleet.
Itchy water: sparkling water.
There is water in the gas: there is something wrong with it.
Add water to your wine: moderate your claims.
Sailing, being in someone's waters: following them, sharing their opinions, being
of his party.
In these waters: approximately.
Being (all) in water: dripping with sweat.
Count on it and drink some water: the promise will never be kept.
Drown in a glass of water: focus on the accessory and not on the essential and above all take pleasure in it
Sweat blood and water: make great efforts, go to great lengths.
Not having invented hot water ”: not being very smart.
He didn't invent hot water, but he stores it.
Not having invented sugar water: being silly, stupid.
Make your mouth water: entice, tempt, make people want, make people want, make people want to eat.
Of the most beautiful water: remarkable (in its kind): A crook of the most beautiful water.
The same water: the same kind.
Hold water: resist.
Drop a stream of water: piss, urinate
Clear water, clear water tower: without the use of doping products (sports jargon).
- The expression "Add water to your wine": Moderate your demands or ambitions.
This attenuation of the effects or qualities of wine by water is found in the figurative sense of this expression which is old since one finds a form from the middle of the XNUMXth century.
And its meaning has also evolved because if, today, it applies mainly to requirements or claims, in 1636 Fleury de Bellingen gave the meaning "to moderate your passions as the excessive heat of wine is tempered by the mixture of water "and Oudin, twenty years later, said" to moderate, to overcome his anger ". Whether it was then or now, in this expression it is always a question of moderation, the one with which it is good to drink this alcoholic beverage made from grapes.
- The expression "There is water in the gas": The atmosphere is disputed - Quarrels are brewing.
The first origin of this metaphor, from the beginning of the XNUMXth century, is for those who have overflowed a pot of water placed on a gas stove: water vapor is produced first, then the flame s' extinguishing, the escaping gas may cause an explosion. In other words, it starts with smoking, then it explodes, just like in an argument!
The second, mentioned by the French writer, novelist and translator Claude Duneton (1935-2012), comes from the fact that coal gas, in homes in the past, contained a high rate of water vapor. Under certain conditions, this water vapor condenses and ends up creating pockets of water in the pipes, clogging them. There was therefore at that time, and really, water in the gas, a phenomenon which was announced by an orange flame before it went out completely.