comme un pet sur une toile cirée
French
FWOTD – 20 June 2018
Etymology
Literally, “like a fart on an oilcloth”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.m‿œ̃ pɛ sy.ʁ‿yn twal si.ʁe/
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Adverb
comme un pet sur une toile cirée
- (simile, informal) like grease through a goose, as fast as greased lightning (very rapidly)
- René Sussan, Dupont et le bonheur des hommes, 1965, p. 122.
- Découvert, il fila parmi les gardes ahuris comme un pet sur une toile cirée.
- With his cover blown, he slipped through the dumbstruck guards as fast as greased lightning.
- René Sussan, Dupont et le bonheur des hommes, 1965, p. 122.