Advanced Drinking back
Mostly slang that no Brit has ever uttered, so prepare to
impress.
* Le pinard - wine
* Le rouquin - red wine
** la piquette - plonk
* un petit canon - a little glass of wine
* un litron - a litre bottle
** paf - legless
** blindé(e) - ditto (blinded)
** schlass - ditto
* les cadavres - the empties (literally the corpses)
* un apéro - cocktail (short or un apéretif)
* boire un coup - to have a drink
* rond(e) - plastered (round)
* rond(e) comme une bille drunk - (round like a ball)
* Le gros rouge qui tache et qui pousse au crime -
Ordinary red wine (literally, the thick red wine that stains and incites to crime)
du ** pipi dâne - (donkeys piss) any weak
beverage (coffee etc)
du * pipi de chat - (cats piss)
* avoir un verre dans le nez - to have had one too many (lit.
to have a glass in the nose)
* Arroser un évènement - To celebrate an event with a
drink
* Ca sarrose ! - This calls for a celebration !
Boire à la santé de quelquun - To drink to somebodys health
* Marcher au rouge / * carburer au rouge - To be
partial to red wine
* Baptiser son vin - To dilute ones wine with
water
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