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Originally posted by Yves SAVARIAUD:
If you say that "la femme porte la culotte" (the women she wears the "culotte") its means that she is the chief into the couple. "prendre une culotte" can be "lose an election". "baisser sa culotte" (put his trousers off) can be "to give up" etc...etc...
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Continuing our international Language symposium in English a woman in charge of a couple "wears the trousers"
unless one is Scottish of course
i once saw a Scotsman lift his Kilt to prove "that everything was in perfect working order"!!
or if you are American "wear the pants" see:-
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/wear+down
And one BBC Radio disk jockey often used to express scorn for anybody showing off by calling him/her a "clever trousers"
I googled for that expression and found someone stating:-
"Actually, I stole clever trousers from an 80s British sitcom called The Young Ones"
and a New sealand company selling "intelligent interface devices for the industrial automation industry" has called itself by that name
http://www.clevertrousers.co.nz/
John Fowles
Just one thing Yves if you think a topic you start is or is likely to be or become off the main topic of "Gordon Lightfoot" then start it in the "Small Talk" forum. I mean no criticism of you regarding this topic as when you opened it you obviously had no idea that I would introduce off-topic replies but as my good friend BillW says "That's just the way things go around here"
I think we are overall just very pleased that a genuine Frenchman has joined us to add to the Russian Italian Swede and Australians who have previously posted here, Not forgetting of course that our host Florian Bodenseher lives in Vienna,Austria
John Fowles
One final thing make sure you add you name location and a picture to the "Corfid Member Map" described and linked at:-
http://www.corfid.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ul...1;t=003558;p=0
Oh yes why "corfid" anyway??
Florian explains at:-
http://www.corfid.com/gl/about.htm
[ January 04, 2006, 09:37: Message edited by: johnfowles ]