vocab dash
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Vocabulary
manger
to eat
Verb
manger
food, foodstuff
Noun
mangeoire
manger; feeder (e.g. for birds)
Noun
gourmandise
delicacy (a pleasing food); culinary taste; joie de manger; gluttony
Noun
tu as ou tu vas
used to disambiguate sentences like "j'ai mangé"/"je vais manger" when the speaker hasn't heard clearly.
Phrase
mangerie
eating
Noun
manger maigre
to abstain from meat on certain days appointed by the Roman Catholic Church
Verb
manger du curé
to be vehemently anticlerical, to sharply criticize the clergy
Verb
manger ses mots
to mumble, to clip one's words, to pronounce indistinctly
Verb
manger à sa faim
to eat one's fill, to get one's fill, to eat as much as one wants, to have enough to eat
Verb
manger une volée
to get a hiding, to get beaten up
Verb
manger au râtelier
to be in the pay of
Verb
manger son chapeau
to eat one's hat, to eat humble pie
Verb
manger de la marde
to die hard; to go fuck oneself
Verb
manger comme quatre
to eat like a horse
Verb
manger dans la main
to be familiar with (of animals); to be too familiar or servile with (of humans)
Verb
manger comme un loup
To gorge.
Verb
manger son pain noir
to go through hard times
Verb
manger comme un ogre
to eat like a horse
Verb
manger son pain blanc
to begin with the easiest part; to enjoy something while it lasts; to have it easy
Verb
manger comme un moineau
to eat like a bird (to eat very little)
Verb
manger à tous les râteliers
to have many irons in the fire, to play the field
Verb
manger les pissenlits par la racine
to push up daisies
Verb