French and English Idioms and Proverbs: With Critical and Historical Notes, Volume 2Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1896 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
back best better bird bread bring business called catch caught deal Diamond cut diamond drink easily English Étienne de Silhouette everything expression fact familiar fashion feel fellow first formerly found French friend full getting give going good great hand head hear Hence high high hand hold honour horse house Joking apart keep know know nothing known last late laugh leave life little live looks made make making many a slip master matter meaning means mind MOLIÈRE money monnaie de singe mouche mouth name need never one's pain party passe people pied play poor remark rien right same saying show side sight small soon speak spendthrift stand story take taken talk thing think time Tit for tat told took true True blood turn used vache want word work worse worth young young rascal
Fréquemment cités
Page 101 - Notre espèce excella ; car tout ce que nous sommes , Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous, Nous nous pardonnons tout, et rien aux autres hommes. On se voit d'un autre œil qu'on ne voit son prochain. Le fabricateur souverain Nous créa besaciers tous de même manière, '' Tant ceux du temps passé que du temps d'aujourd'hui : II fit pour nos défauts la poche de derrière, Et celle de devant pour les défauts d'autrui.
Page 148 - Having made this provision for the royal family of France, he laid his papers so that his landlord, who was an inquisitive man, and a good subject, might get a sight of them. The plot succeeded as he desired. The host gave immediate intelligence to the secretary of state.
Page 49 - It cannot be this j the most friendless of human beings has a country which he admires and extols, and which he would, in the same circumstances, prefer to all others under heaven. Tempt him with the fairest face of nature, place him by living waters under shadowy trees of Lebanon, open to his view all the gorgeous allurements of the climates of the sun, he will love the rocks and deserts of his childhood better than all these, and thou canst not bribe his soul to forget the land of his nativity...
Page 205 - Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon: and Solomon, I am sure, saith, 'It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence.
Page 27 - Chacun songe en veillant, il n'est rien de plus doux; Une flatteuse erreur emporte alors nos âmes: Tout le bien du monde est à nous. Tous les honneurs, toutes les femmes. Quand je suis seul, je fais au plus brave un défi...
Page 26 - JACQUES. — Est-ce à votre cocher, monsieur, ou bien à votre cuisinier que vous voulez parler ? car je suis l'un et l'autre.
Page 81 - L'argent, et sa joie à la fois. Plus de chant: il perdit la voix Du moment qu'il gagna ce qui cause nos peines. Le sommeil quitta son logis : II eut pour hôtes les soucis, Les soupçons, les alarmes vaines. Tout le jour il avait l'œil au guet ; et la nuit, Si quelque chat faisait du bruit, Le chat prenait l'argent. A la fin le pauvre homme S'en courut chez celui qu'il ne réveillait plus ('). « Rendez-moi, lui dit-il, mes chansons et mon somme, Et reprenez vos cent écus.
Page 162 - If you choose to represent the various parts in life by holes upon a table, of different shapes — some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole.
Page 76 - Je ne puis rien nommer si ce n'est par son nom ; J'appelle un chat un chat, et Rolet un fripon...
Page 148 - ... with proper accommodations on the road. As soon as he appeared, he was known to be the celebrated Rabelais, and his powder upon examination being found very innocent, the jest was only laughed at; for which ;i less eminent droll would have been sent to the gallies.